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Picturing change and changing pictures: contact period rock art of Australia

Date

Authors

Tacon, Paul

Ross, J.

Paterson, Alistair

May, Sally

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract

The production of rock art by Indigenous Australians continued throughout recent centuries, often documenting the arrival of Asians and Europeans in various parts of Australia, but this very recent rock art has until now not been explored in detail from a

Keywords

Keywords: Aboriginal people, ways of identifying within the rock art assemblage; Central Australia complex post-contact, and simple introduced horses/camels; Contact period rock art, recognition nine ways with more than one used; Names engraved alongside old totemi

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/20121

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Type

Book Title

A companion to rock art

DOI

10.1002/9781118253892.ch24

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