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Rethinking the age and unity of large naturalistic animal forms in early Western Arnhem Land Rock Art, Australia
Australian Archaeology ( IF 1.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 , DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2020.1826080
Tristen Jones 1 , Daryl Wesley 2 , Sally K. May 3 , Iain G. Johnston 4 , Clare McFadden 5 , Paul S.C. Taçon 3
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Abstract

The analysis of style is a widespread method for describing classes of rock art and plays a significant role in forming a chronology for Arnhem Land rock art assemblages. A longstanding issue identified in Arnhem Land rock art has been the ill-defined nature of the ‘Large Naturalistic Style’ (LNS) as originally proposed by rock art researcher George Chaloupka. We have re-examined the distribution, frequency and the stylistic design attributes of 163 early naturalistic macropod paintings from 88 rock art sites across the region utilising predominately legacy records. This provides us with an opportunity to re-examine Chaloupka’s stylistic category of the LNS and describe and map the stylistic attributes used by Indigenous artists in the depictions of early naturalistic animal forms that occur through the Early and Middle Periods (from Pleistocene to early Holocene). We examine Chaloupka’s LNS against established criteria for the definition of a style, such as whether it exhibits a specific and characteristic manner of production and if it is localised to a specific time and place. We present the first reported quantifiable dataset of design attributes for this regional art type. The results provide an opportunity to re-evaluate the temporal and spatial coherence of the Large Naturalistic Style class of rock art. Although a generalised standard depiction of naturalistic macropod forms exists in Early Period rock art, the original definition of LNS and its chronological placement in the rock art sequence is not supported. Therefore, we propose using the more generalised term ‘early large naturalistic fauna’ to represent this class of rock art, rather than LNS in the Arnhem Land rock art schema. This provides a platform by which future research can attempt to investigate the function of early large naturalistic fauna and the potential links of this class of rock art to group identity, ritual and religious behaviours in northern Australia.



中文翻译:

重新思考澳大利亚西阿纳姆早期土地岩石艺术中大型自然主义动物形式的年龄和统一性

摘要

风格分析是描述岩石艺术类别的一种普遍方法,并且在形成阿纳姆·兰德岩石艺术作品的年表中起着重要作用。岩石艺术研究人员乔治·查洛普卡(George Chaloupka)最初提出的“大型自然主义风格”(LNS)的性质不明确,是阿纳姆土地岩石艺术中一个长期存在的问题。我们使用主要的遗留记录重新检查了来自该地区88个岩石艺术场所的163幅早期自然主义巨脚画的分布,频率和风格设计属性。这为我们提供了重新审视Chaloupka的LNS风格类别的机会,并描述和绘制了土著艺术家在早期和中期(从更新世到全新世)发生的早期自然主义动物形态描述中使用的风格属性。 。我们根据既定的风格定义标准来检查Chaloupka的LNS,例如风格是否表现出特定的特征性生产方式以及是否定位于特定的时间和地点。我们提出了该地区艺术类型的设计属性的第一个报告的可量化数据集。结果为重新评估大型自然主义风格岩石艺术的时空一致性提供了机会。尽管早期岩石艺术中存在对自然巨足类动物形式的通用标准描述,但不支持LNS的原始定义及其在岩石艺术序列中的年代顺序。因此,我们建议使用更笼统的术语“早期大型自然动物区系”来表示此类岩石艺术,而不是用阿纳姆地岩石艺术图式中的LNS来表示。这提供了一个平台,通过该平台,未来的研究可以尝试调查早期大型自然动物区系的功能以及此类岩石艺术与澳大利亚北部群体认同,仪式和宗教行为的潜在联系。我们建议使用更笼统的术语“早期大型自然动物区系”来代表此类岩石艺术,而不是在阿纳姆地(Arnhem Land)岩石艺术图式中代表LNS。这提供了一个平台,通过该平台,未来的研究可以尝试调查早期大型自然动物区系的功能以及此类岩石艺术与澳大利亚北部群体认同,仪式和宗教行为的潜在联系。我们建议使用更笼统的术语“早期大型自然动物区系”来代表此类岩石艺术,而不是在阿纳姆地(Arnhem Land)岩石艺术图式中代表LNS。这提供了一个平台,通过该平台,未来的研究可以尝试调查早期大型自然动物区系的功能以及此类岩石艺术与澳大利亚北部群体认同,仪式和宗教行为的潜在联系。

更新日期:2020-10-20
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