Archival Theory, Chronology and Interpretation of Rock Art in the Western Cape,

Since absolute dating of rock art is limited, relative chronologies remain useful in contextualising interpretations of ancient images. This book advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to formulate a framework for their historicised interpretations. The Western Cape painting sequence is customarily accepted to include the hunter-gatherer phase from c. 10,000 BP, pastoralism from c. 2,000 BP and finally the historical-cum-colonial period several centuries ago. Painting traditions with distinct depiction manners and content are conventionally linked to these broad periods. This study evaluates this schema in order to refine the diverse hunter-gatherer, herder and colonial era painting contexts and histories.\n\nArchival Theory, Chronology and Interpretation of Rock Art in the Western Cape, South Africa\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Roya;