Abstract:This thesis addresses two key issues in current rock art research, the first theoretical, the second exemplary. Researchers often write of rock art regions without according the concept sufficient theoretical consideration. Instead, this thesis argues that rock art regions are more usefully defined by the presence and absence of ethnographically informed motifs than by aesthetics.The argument is supported by reference to two understudied rock art regions: the Texas Trans-Pecos, United States of America, and Mp… Show more
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