Patterns of superposition in rock art are often used to systematically construct style sequences. However, once on the rock, images can affect subsequent engagements with the art, the rock surface, the site, and its surrounding landscape, and this recursiveness can be studied through the superimpositions (significantly overlaid markings) on a rock face. This is an opportunity for archaeologists to investigate the culture of engagement not just at the moment of the art’s initial creation, but subsequently also. In this paper we show how a long sequence of art styles that together span c. 17,000 years or more was not haphazardly arranged at the key site of Pundawar Manbur, in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia, but rather was constituted of many meaningful overlaps whose particularities reveal much about the culture of art and site engagement over time.

岩石艺术中的叠加模式经常被用来系统地构建风格序列。然而，一旦在岩石上，图像会影响随后与艺术、岩石表面、场地及其周围景观的接触，而这种递归性可以通过叠加来研究（显着覆盖的标记）在岩面上。这是考古学家研究参与文化的机会，不仅在艺术最初创作的那一刻，而且在随后的时候。在本文中，我们展示了一系列跨越 c 的艺术风格。17,000 年或更长时间不是随意安排在澳大利亚西北部金伯利地区的 Pundawar Manbur 的关键地点，而是由许多有意义的重叠构成，这些重叠的特殊性揭示了随着时间的推移艺术文化和遗址参与的很多方面。