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Signalling and Mobility: Understanding Stylistic Diversity in the Rock Art of a Great Basin Cultural Landscape

open access: yesArts
This paper explores Great Basin arid-zone hunter–forager rock art as signalling behaviour. The rock art in Lincoln County, Nevada, is the focus, and this symbolic repertoire is analysed within its broader archaeological and ethnographic contexts.
Jo McDonald
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Rock art in “The Land of Fire” (Azerbaijan): Discovering the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (UNESCO World Heritage List)

open access: yes, 2018
In 2003 I was requested by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre to lead a mission in the Republic of Azerbaijan with the aim of preparing a management plan for the Gobustan rock art area that the state of Azerbaijan wished to nominate to the World ...
Fossati Angelo Eugenio
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NO NĀ PUA: Exploring the feasibility of culture‐based social prescribing on firefighters' wellbeing in Hawaiʻi

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Which way do we go? A story-based approach to archaeological based interpretation of the rock art of Castle Rock, Chillagoe, north Queensland, Australia

open access: yes, 2013
Analysis of the rock art motifs at Castle Rock, near Chillagoe, north Queensland, has shown that this site provides a detailed landscape map of the surrounding country. A series of motifs shaped like asterisks or stars suggest vertical views of a number
Campbell, John B.   +3 more
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How Can Community Music Enhance Place‐Based Efforts to Create Greater Social Equity? Insights From an Australian Cultural Mapping Exercise

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social inequity is increasing in Australia, often manifesting in entrenched locational disadvantage that requires place‐based responses grounded in local strengths, knowledge and participation. While community music programmes have demonstrated a range of positive social outcomes, their potential contribution to place‐based efforts addressing ...
Brydie‐Leigh Bartleet   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Lower Paleolithic Engravings of Bilzingsleben, Germany

open access: yesEncyclopedia
Some of the earliest known engravings are described, analyzed, and interpreted, following their microscopic examination. They are of significance in exploring the cognitive evolution of hominins several hundred thousand years ago and have not been ...
Robert G. Bednarik
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Human-animal Relationships from a Long-Term Perspective

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2020
Humans, like other animals, are inextricably bound to their local complex web-of-life and cannot exist outside of relationally interwoven ecosystems. Humans are, as such, rooted in a multispecies universe. Human and non-human animals in their variety of
Kristin Armstrong Oma, Joakim Goldhahn
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Looking at our Looking: A New Approach to the Definition of a Rock Art Scene

open access: yes, 2020
The specific aim of this article is to offer a precise definition of a scene and of related terms such as juxtaposition and association. Its larger aim is to introduce a new way of talking about rock art images in general, viz. by reference to the way we
Dobrez, Livio
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Ethnic roots of cultural tradition illustrated in Kaimur rock art

open access: yesAncient Asia, 2013
Ethno archaeological evidences and studies very often facilitate the interpretation of significance of rock art. But sometimes there are problems in explaining the things if there is discrepancy between local ethnic ...
Sachin Tiwary
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Tracking Change in Rock Art Vocabularies and Styles at Marapikurrinya (Port Hedland, Northwest Australia)

open access: yesArts
Track engravings dominate the rock art assemblage across Marapikurrinya (Port Hedland) in Northwest Australia, with social change through time linked to changes in how and when this graphic vocabulary is employed.
Sam Harper
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