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Archaeologies of Rock Art
South American Perspectives
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This volume highlights the rich variety of South American rock art and offers valuable insights that contribute to the global research of such material.
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Ideal for scholars and students in archaeology, anthropology, art history, heritage, and conservation, this book provides case studies and theoretical frameworks relevant both to South American contexts and broader global studies of rock art.
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Rock art research has seen great development in recent years but notably South American examples have been little studied with information, particularly in English, scarce. Exploring the large body of rock art in South America, Interpreting Rock Art exploits a rich and varied set of interpretive perspectives, including local approaches, t
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Archaeologies of Rock Art delves into the diverse world of South American rock art, which is as varied as the continent itself. Across this vast territory, different peoples produced engravings, paintings, and massive earthworks, from the Atacama to the Amazon. These marks on the landscape were crafted by a variety of peoples, ranging from some of the earliest hunter-gatherers on the continent to the complex societies within the Inca Empire. This book brings together the work of specialists from throughout the region, addressing this diversity as well as the variety of approaches that the archaeology of rock art has taken in South America.
Composed of eleven thought-provoking chapters and arranged in three thematic sections, the book presents various theoretical approaches currently utilised to understand the roles rock art played in prehistoric communities. The editors have skillfully crafted a volume that showcases how the study of South American rock art can contribute to global research on this materiality, both theoretically and methodologically.
This book will appeal to a wide range of scholars researching archaeology, anthropology, history of art, heritage and conservation, alongside undergraduate and postgraduate students. They will find intriguing case studies that demonstrate the diverse methods by which rock art can be examined. Despite its focus on South America, Archaeologies of Rock Art is intended as a contribution to the global study of rock art.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780367592288
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 August 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Contributors:
- Edited by George Nash
- Edited by Andrés Troncoso
- Edited by Felipe Armstrong
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 610g
Pages: 328
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About the Author
Andrés Troncoso gained his Archaeology degree at the Universidad de Chile, and PhD in Archaeology at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He also was a Postdoctoral visiting Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Chile. He has directed several projects in Chile funded by the Chilean National Fund for Science and Technology (FONDECYT), National Geographic, and Wenner-Gren Foundation, among others. His research focuses on the way in which rock art was engaged in the social reproduction of past communities and in the construction of landscape along History, developing comparative studies. Andrés has published books and several articles on Chilean prehistory, rock art, the Inkas, and landscape archaeology.
Felipe Armstrong gained his degree in Archaeology from the Universidad de Chile, and holds a Master in Comparative Art and Archaeology from the UCL Institute of Archaeology, same institution where he is currently completing his PhD in Archaeology. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology of Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile). Felipe has worked on rock art from North-Central Chile, assessing its role in the configuration of social and collective memory, and in the relational and sensorial fields of pre-Hispanic communities. He also works on Rapa Nui’s (Easter Island) anthropomorphic objects, assessing their role in the embodied world experiences of late prehistoric and early historic islanders.
George Nash is a Research fellow and former lecture at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, and Associate Professor at the Museum of Prehistoric Art (Quaternary and Prehistory Geosciences Centre, Maçao, Portugal [IPT]). Dr Nash has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Brazil and central Chile and is currently involved in rock art research in Israel and Mongolia.
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