The rock art areas of Victoria: an initial comparison

Gunn, Ben

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“…The peak period of recording was from 1979 to 1985 when VAS employed a consultant to rerecord known sites and to undertake surveys of adjacent areas, resulting in the recording of a further 58 rock art sites. The state of the art was then summarised and a preliminary analysis undertaken in an unpublished report (Gunn 1987a).…”

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“…During the 1990s and 2000s, a small number of rock art sites were recorded by rock climbers and bushwalkers, but the majority of archaeological information was derived from cultural heritage management plans relating to developments within the Grampians National Park or on adjoining Crown lands (e.g. Cekalovic 2000;Edmonds 1992;Gunn 1999;Gunn and Goodes 2020).…”

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“…These surveys for rock art sites developed a standard recording format with considerably more information than was required on the VAS site forms of the time. At this time, VAS also commissioned the detailed recording of a further 17 Victorian rock art sites, including 12 within Gariwerd (Gunn 1983a(Gunn , 1983b(Gunn , 1987b(Gunn , 1987c and detailed management plans for eight of the more visited rock art sites in Gariwerd (e.g. Clark 1991aClark , 1991b.…”

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“…These ranges and outcropping ridges are all composed of the same sandstone strata identified in the main Grampians Ranges (Cayley and Taylor 1997:10). These ranges and outcrops contain a wealth of rock art that together constitutes a broad rock art tradition that contrasts with rock art elsewhere in the State of Victoria (Gunn 1987a). A second Black Range, to the east of the Grampians Ranges, contains the site popularly known as 'Bunjil's shelter'.…”

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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.

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“…The South-East Coast was excluded because for most sites there is no ethnographic evidence of rock art being a living tradition at the time of contact or fieldwork (with the exception of a few sites documented in Flood 1980 ; Gunn, 1984 ; Smith, 1983 ). This is because the southeastern portion of the continent was the area of first European occupation, where colonization had a devastating impact from very early stages and, in many cases, native populations were wiped out before their cultures could be recorded (Sydney Prehistory Group, 1983 ).…”

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Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art

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Image-making is a nearly universal human behavior, yet the visual strategies and conventions to represent things in pictures vary greatly over time and space. In particular, pictorial styles can differ in their degree of figurativeness, varying from intersubjectively recognizable representations of things to very stylized and abstract forms. Are there any patterns to this variability, and what might its ecological causes be? Experimental studies have shown that demography and the structure of interaction of cultural groups can play a key role: the greater the degree of contact with other groups, the more recognizable and less abstract are the representations. Here we test this hypothesis on a real-world dataset for the first time. We constructed a balanced database of Indigenous Australian rock art motifs from both isolated and contact Aboriginal groups (those often in contact with other groups). We then ran a survey asking participants to judge the recognizability of the motifs and to provide interpretations. Results show that motifs from contact Aboriginal groups were more likely to be judged as inter-subjectively recognizable and also elicited more convergent descriptions than motifs from isolated groups. This is consistent with the idea that intergroup contact is likely to be an important factor in the cultural evolution of pictorial representation. We discuss the implications of these findings for the archaeology and anthropology of art, and the parallels with language evolution.

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The rock art areas of Victoria: an initial comparison

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