Histories of Australian Rock Art Research

Abstract

Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.

There From the Start: Aboriginal Involvement in the Early Development of Australian Archaeology

“…The interpretation of rock art. This is a field of study in itself and the history of rock art studies is the subject of considerable recent interest and research (see most recently Taçon et al 2022, the proceedings of a 2019 conference). Our current project will therefore not address the topic in any detail, except tangentially within the context of wider-ranging studies.…”