The Archaeology of Rock-Art

by Christopher Chippindale (Editor), Paul S. C. Taçon (Editor)

Rock art--prehistoric pictures--gives us lively and captivating images of animals and people painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces. It is all too easy to guess at the meanings the images carry. This pioneering set of essays instead explores how we can reliably learn from rock art as a material record of distant times by adapting the proven methods of archaeology to the special subject of rock art.

Genres: Archaeology

392 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Christopher Ralph Chippindale is a British archaeologist. He worked at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology from 1988 to his retirement in 2013, and was additionally Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 2001 to 2013.

Reviews

[Jane · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF

Reading this book was part of my Australian Archaeology unit for uni. It was okay but not entirely what I was looking for.