Kimberley Rock Art

Sam Harper; Peter Veth; Sven Ouzman

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3449-1

Kimberley Rock Art

Sam Harper, Peter Veth, Sven Ouzman

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This chapter summarizes the current state of rock art research in the Kimberley, Western Australia, which is a globally significant corpus of tens of thousands of rock art, archaeological, ethnographic, and contemporary sites. We present a history of rock art research in the region, discuss linguistic and cultural diversity, across the Kimberley, and outline the development of rock art stylistic sequences and spatial analysis. A new generation of scientific dating of the art and associated excavations is also harmonized. Aboriginal ontologies and recorded ethnography associated with the rock art are highlighted. We also present land tenure land management under native title and affiliated ranger groups as heritage management challenges and opportunities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
Editors	Claire Smith
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	Springer
Number of pages	16
Edition	Living Edition
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030300180
ISBN (Print)	9783030300166
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3449-1
Publication status	Published - 11 Dec 2019

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