Making Scenes

Iain Davidson was appointed at the University of New England in 1974 and was awarded a Personal Chair in 1997.  He was appointed Emeritus in 2008 and took up the Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University for 2008–9.  Iain has worked on Spanish Upper Palaeolithic (including Palaeolithic Art), archaeology and ethnography of Northwest Queensland, Australian rock art, archaeology and heritage, colonization of Sahul, language origins, and cognitive evolution.

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Preface

Meg Conkey



Introduction: Behind the Scenes—Did Scenes in Rock Art Create New Ways of Seeing the World?

Iain Davidson and April Nowell



Chapter 1. Scenes and non-Scenes in Rock Art

Iain Davidson



Chapter 2. The Possible Significance of Depicted Scenes for Cognitive Development.

Livio Dobrez



Chapter 3. Event Depiction in Rock Art: Landscape-Embedded Plan-View Narratives, Decontextualized Profile “scenes,” and their Hybrid Instances

Patricia Dobrez



Chapter 4. Defining “scenes” in Rock Art Research: Visual Conventions and Beyond

Madeleine Kelly and Bruno David



Chapter 5. Putting Southern African Rock Paintings in Context: The View from the Mirabib Rockshelter, Western Namibia

Grant S. McCall, Theodore P. Marks, Jordan Wilson, Andrew G. Schroll, and James G. Enloe



Chapter 6. Scenic Narratives of Humans and Animals in Namibian rock art – A Methodological Restart with Data Mining

Tilman Lenssen-Erz, Eymard Fäder, Oliver Vogels and Brigitte Mathiak



Chapter 7. Between scene and association: Toward a Better Understanding of Scenes in the Rock Art of Iran

Ebrahim Karimi



Chapter 8. Music and Dancing Scenes in the Rock Art of Central India

Meenakshi Dubey-Pathak and Jean Clottes



Chapter 9. Hunting and havoc: Narrative Scenes in the Black Desert Rock Art of Jebel Qurma, Jordan

Nathalie Østerled Brusgaard and Keshia A. N. Akkermans



Chapter 10. Making a scene: An analysis of rock art panels from the Northwest Kimberley and Central Desert, Australia.

June Ross



Chapter 11. Scene but not heard: Seeing scenes in a northern Australian Aboriginal site

Madeleine Kelly, Bruno David and Josephine Flood



Chapter 12. A Comparison of “scenes” in Parietal and Non-Parietal Upper Paleolithic Imagery: Formal Differences and Ontological Implications

Elisabeth Culley



Chapter 13. Scene Makers: Finger Fluters in Rouffignac Cave (France)

Leslie Van Gelder and April Nowell



Chapter 14. Maps in Prehistoric Art

Pilar Utrilla, Carlos Mazo, Rafael Domingo and Manuel Bea



Chapter 15. Scenes in the Paleolithic and Levantine Art of Eastern Spain

Valentín Villaverde



Chapter 16. New Insights into the Analysis of Levantine Rock Art Scenes Informed by Observations on Western Arnhem Land Rock Art.

Inés Domingo



Chapter 17. Rules of Ordering and Grouping in the pitoti, the Later Prehistoric Rock-Engravings of Valcamonica (BS), Italy: from Solitary Figures through Clusters, Graphic Groups, and Scenes to Narrative

Craig Alexander, Alberto Marretta, Thomas Huet, Christopher Chippindale



Chapter 18. Finding Order out of Chaos: A Statistical Analysis of Nine Mile Canyon Rock Art

Jerry D. Spangler and Iain Davidson



Chapter 19. Interpreting Scenes in the Rock Art of the Canadian Maritimes

Bryn Tapper and Oscar Moro Abadía



Chapter 20. The “Black Series” in the Hunting Scenes of Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, Patagonia, Argentina.

Carlos A. Aschero and Patricia Schneier



Epilogue: Is There More to Scenes than Meets the eye?

Iain Davidson and April Nowell