Australian Museum Journal Pictures, jargon and theory—our own ethnography and roadside rock art. In F.D. McCarthy, Commemorative Papers (Archaeology, Anthropology, Rock Art), ed. Jim Specht
- Shortform:
- Clegg, 1993, Rec. Aust. Mus., Suppl. 17: 91–103
- Author(s):
- Clegg, John
- Year published:
- 1993
- Title:
- Pictures, jargon and theory—our own ethnography and roadside rock art. In F.D. McCarthy, Commemorative Papers (Archaeology, Anthropology, Rock Art), ed. Jim Specht
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement
- Volume:
- 17
- Start page:
- 91
- End page:
- 103
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0812-7387.17.1993.61
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 27 May 1993
- Cover date:
- 27 May 1993
- ISBN:
- ISBN 0-7310-0280-6
- ISSN:
- 0812-7387
- CODEN:
- RAMSEZ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ETHNOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE: INDIGENOUS; MAMMALIA
- Digitized:
- 16 June 2009
- Reference number:
- 61
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (99kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2325kb PDF)
Abstract
The roadside pictures of an area in suburban Sydney were examined as valuable things to think with for prehistorians in particular and other students of rock art. It was discovered that several traits which had been considered unique to, and characteristic of, European palaeolithic rock art are also characteristic of the pictures of suburban Sydney. New light is shed on the concepts of art and style when they are confronted with essentially familiar materials whose ethnography is at once known and intangible.