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Rock art science: the scientific study of palaeoart
By Robert G. Bednarik, second edition, expanded and updated. 2007. Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 220 pages, illustrated, comprehensive bibliography, index. Hardcover ISBN 81-7305-318-9, paperback ISBN 81-7305-319-7. The contents of this academic textbook are: 1. Rock art science: an introduction; 2. The study of rock art in a historical perspective; 3. The discrimination of natural and artificial rock markings; 4. The technology of rock art; 5. The recording of rock art; 6. The conservation of rock art; 7. The dating of rock art; 8. The interpretation of rock art; 9. Some methods of rock art science; 10. Portable palaeoart; 11. Resources in rock art research; 12. Rock art glossary A limited number of copies of this book is available at a greatly reduced price from AURA, please order here. Australian Apocalypse: the story of Australia's greatest cultural monument Occasional AURA Publication No. 14, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Melbourne, ISBN 0-9586802-2-1 First edition, 2006, RRP $A40.00 Price for members of IFRAO-affiliated organisations $A20.00 + $A3.00 postage in Australia, or + $A11.00 elsewhere, see order form. Contains 32 pages of full colour plates of rock art in the Dampier Archipelago. ‘In these pages, compressed, stripped down to basics, is the entire political, environmental and ideological history of the coastal Pilbara ... Bednarik has penned an art historical J’accuse, an unfamiliar form of public argument in this nation of whispered co-options, stakeholder coalitions and backroom deals.’ Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian Please order here. State of the art: regional rock art studies in Australia and Melanesia, Occasional AURA Publication No. 6, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Melbourne, ISBN 0-646-09083-6. Edited by Jo McDonald and Ivan P. Haskovec. Proceedings of Symposia C (‘Rock art studies in Australia and Oceania’) and D (‘The rock art of northern Australia’) of the First AURA Congress, with contributions by 23 authors. 240 pages, 33 plates, 147 line drawings, 51 maps, 36 tables, paperback, RRP $A48.00. Special offer 50% discount: including postage and packing $A32.00 in Australia, US$30.60 elsewhere. See order form. Rock art and ethnography, Occasional AURA Publication No. 5, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Melbourne, ISBN 0-646-04920-8. Edited by M. J. Morwood and D. R. Hobbs, proceedings of Symposium H (‘Rock art and ethnography’); bound with Retouch: maintenance and conservation of Aboriginal rock imagery, edited by G. K. Ward, proceedings of Symposium O (‘Retouch: an option to conservation?’) of the First AURA Congress, with contributions by 21 authors. 140 pages, 60 plates, 23 line drawings, 2 maps, 2 tables, paperback, RRP $A34.00. Special offer 50% discount: including postage and packing $A25.00 in Australia, US$25.30 elsewhere. See order form. Management of rock imagery, Occasional AURA Publication No. 9, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Melbourne, ISBN 0-9586802-0-5. Edited by G. K. Ward and L. A. Ward, bound with Preservation of rock art, edited by A. Thorn and J. Brunet. Proceedings of Symposia G and H of the Second AURA Congress, with contributions by 56 authors. 240 pages, 110 plates, 47 line drawings, 16 maps, 20 tables, extensive bibliographies, paperback, RRP $A48.00. Special 50% discount: including postage and packing $A32.00 in Australia, US$30.60 elsewhere. See order form. Advances in dating Australian rock-markings: papers from the First Australian Rock-Picture Dating Workshop, Occasional AURA Publication No. 10, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Melbourne, ISBN 0-9586802-1-3. Compiled and edited by Graeme K. Ward and Claudio Tuniz. With contributions by 31 authors. 124 pages, colour plates on covers, numerous monochrome plates, line drawings, maps and tables, paperback, RRP$A36.00. Special offer 50% discount: including postage and packing $A26.00 in Australia, US$26.00 elsewhere. See order form. Rock art and posterity: conserving, managing and recording rock art, Occasional AURA Publication No. 4, Australian Rock Art Research Association, Inc., Melbourne, ISBN 0-646-03751-X. Edited by Colin Pearson and B. K. Swartz, Jr. Proceedings of Symposia M (‘Conservation and site management’) and E (‘Recording and standardisation in rock art studies’) of the First AURA Congress, with contributions by 31 authors. 160 pages, 40 plates, 22 line drawings, 21 maps, 19 tables, paperback, RRP $A26.00. Special offer 50% discount: including postage and packing $A20.70 in Australia, US$22.30 elsewhere. See order form. |
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