Document Type
Article
Program
Environmental Analysis (Pitzer)
Publication Date
2006
Keywords
rock art, Australia, Aboriginal, petroglyphs, picotgraphs
Abstract
Aboriginal people of Australia have a rich heritage of carving and painting on rocks, extending back well more than 20,000 years. Rock art, Australia's oldest surviving art form, expresses the Aborigines' social, economic and religious concerns through the centuries
Rights Information
© 2006 Oxford University Press. Posted with permission.
DOI
10.1093/acref/9780199754670.001.0001
Recommended Citation
Faulstich, Paul. “Rock Art- Australian Aboriginal” Entries in “Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature.” Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan (eds.). New York: Continuum International. 2006.
Included in
Australian Studies Commons, History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, Illustration Commons, Painting Commons
Comments
Original publication at Oxford Reference.