Iconic imagery: Pleistocene rock art development across northern Australia
Iconic imagery: Pleistocene rock art development across northern Australia
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标志性图像：澳大利亚北部更新世岩石艺术的发展
DOI：
10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.020
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
K. Mulvaney
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作者：
K. Mulvaney
人们普遍认为，萨胡尔的居民是在45,000年前的某个时候实现的，非洲大陆的大部分地区被30000人殖民。雕刻和绘画的岩石艺术存在于这些早期人类留下印记的所有地区。这种艺术努力是与这些人一起来的，还是在Sahul的一种表达？当然，也有一些方面，如吸盘和手托，在大陆之外有相似之处。然而，有许多特征表明，自这些早期以来一直存在并持续存在的独立的艺术传统和习俗。在超过100万平方公里（386，000平方英里）的面积上，从皮尔巴拉海岸延伸超过2，000公里，穿过金伯利，进入阿纳姆地，是一个巨大的岩石艺术体，它展示了殖民化后相对早期的人们生活的象征性结构的差异。这支持了这样一种观点，即萨胡尔内部的区域化不仅仅是全新世的表现。
There is general agreement that the peopling of Sahul was achieved sometime before 45,000 years ago, with most parts of the continent colonised by 30,000. Rock art, both engraved and painted, is present in all areas where these early people left their mark. Did this artistic endeavour come with these people or was this an expression of being in Sahul? Certainly there are aspects, like the cupules and hand stencils, which have parallels outside the continent. However, there are many features that suggest separate artistic traditions and conventions that were present and have continued since these early times. Spread over an area greater than one million sq km (386,000 sq miles), stretching in an arc over 2,000 km from the Pilbara coast, through the Kimberley and into Arnhem Land, is a vast body of rock art that demonstrates there to be differentiation in the symbolic structuring of people’s lives relatively early after colonisation. This supports the notion that regionalisation within Sahul is not simply a Holocene expression.