Cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art.
This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research. Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone interested in the field of rock art studies.

Benjamin Smith, Knut Helskog, David Morris

Chapter 1. Rock art management: Juggling with paradoxes and compromises, and how to live with them Anne-Sophie Hygen and Alexey E. Rogozhinskiy Chapter 2. Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam rock engravings Janette Deacon Chapter 3. Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes exemplified by rock art Terje Norsted Chapter 4. The position of rock art: A consideration of how GIS can contribute to the understanding of the age and authorship of rock art Thembi Russell Chapter 5. R ock art in context: Theoretical aspects of pragmatic data collections Tilman Lenssen-Erz Chapter 6. Representing southern African San rock art: A move towards digitisation Dipuo W. Mokokwe Chapter 7. The routine of documentation Knut Helskog Chapter 8. Prehistoric explorations in rock: Investigations beneath and beyond engraved surfaces Trond Lødøen Chapter 9. Politics, ethnography and prehistory: In search of an 'informed' approach to Finnish and Karelian rock art Antti Lahelma Chapter 10. Ethnography and history: The significance of social change in interpreting rock art David G. Pearce Chapter 11. Symbols on stone: Following in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish antiquity Juha Pentikäinen Chapter 12. Animals and humans: Metaphors of representation in south-central African rock art Leslie F. Z ubieta Chapter 13. Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: Spiritual agents and the origins of Native American rock art David S. Whitley Chapter 14. R ock art, shamanism and history: Implications from a central Asian case study Andrzej Rozwadowski Chapter 15. Presenting rock art through digital film: Recent Australian examples Paul S. C. Taçon Chapter 16. Rock art at present in the past Lindsay Weiss Chapter 17. The importance of Wildebeest Kuil: 'A hill with a future, a hill with a past' David Morris Chapter 18. Theoretical approaches and practical training for rock art site guiding and management Janette Deacon and Neville Agnew Chapter 19. Two related rock art conservation/education projects in Lesotho Pieter Jolly Chapter 20. Norwegian rock art in the past, the present, and the future Gitte Kjeldsen Chapter 21. The presentation of rock art in South Africa: Old problems, new challenges Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu Chapter 22. Yellowstone, Kruger, Kakadu: Nature, culture and heritage in three celebrated national parks Catherine Namono and Christopher Chippindale