The Archaeology of Rock-Art, 1999, 392 p., 192 fig., br. -

An archaeology of rock-art through informed methods and informal methods (P. Tacon, C. Chippindale) ; Finding rain in the desert: landscape, gender and far western North American rock-art (D. S. Whitley) ; Towards a mindscape of landscape: rock-art as expression of world-understanding (S. Ouzman) ; Icon and narrative in transition: contact-period rock-art at Writing-on-Stone, southern Alberta, Canada (M. A. Klassen) ; Rain in Bushman belief, politics and history: the rock-art of rain-making in the south-eastern mountains, southern Africa (T. A. Dowson) ; The many ways of dating Arnhem Land rock-art, north Australia (J. Clottes) ; The 'Three Cs': fresh avenues towards European Palaeolithic art (R. Bradley; Daggers drawn: depictions of Bronze Age weapons in Atlantic Europe (K. Sognnes) ; Symbols in a changing world: rock-art and the transition from hunting to farming in mid Norway (M. Wilson) ; Pacific rock-art and cultural genesis: a multivariate exploration (R. Hartley; Spatial behaviour and learning in the prehistoric environment of the Colorado River drainage (south-eastern Utah), western North America (A. Vasser) ; The tale of the chameleon and the platypus: limited and likely choices in making pictures (B. Smith) ; Pictographic evidence of peyotism in the Lowe Pecos, Texas Archaic (C. E. Boyd) ; Modelling change in the contact art of the south-eastern San, southern Africa (P. Jolly) ; Ethnography and method in southern African rock-art research (A. Solomon) ; Changing art in a changing society: the hunters' rock-art of western Norway (E. M. Walderhaug) ; Central Asian petroglyphs: between Indo-Iranian and shamanistic interpretations (H.-P. Francfort; Shelter rock-art in the Sydney Basin (Australia) - a space-time continuum: exploring different influences on diachronic change (J. McDonald) ; Making sense of obscure pictures from our own history: exotic images from Callan Park, Australia (J. Clegg).