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Rock Art – Australian Aboriginal, Paul Faulstich
Rock Art – Australian Aboriginal, Paul Faulstich
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Aboriginal people of Australia have a rich heritage of carving and painting on rocks, extending back well more than 20,000 years. Rock art, Australia's oldest surviving art form, expresses the Aborigines' social, economic and religious concerns through the centuries
Review Of: Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis, Paul Faulstich
Review Of: Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis, Paul Faulstich
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Rock-art studies have now come of age, and are among the most fertile explorations of expressive culture. Through an interdisciplinary approach to its study, we have expanded our knowledge into the realms of aesthetics, belief systems, and social structures. Australian rock an is particularly significant, since it is a visual expression that has been practiced by contemporary as well as prehistoric Aboriginals. Robert Layton's most recent book -his "new synthesis" of Australian rock art- is an ambitious and successful analysis of Aboriginal rock art from across the continent.
Rock Art In Malaysia, Paul Faulstich
Rock Art In Malaysia, Paul Faulstich
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Very little is known to the scientific world on the rock art of Malaysia. It might therefore be worthwhile on a site in the state of Perak, just outside of the town of Ipoh. The rock is limestone, and there is a quarry about 1/8 of a mile down the hill from the paintings. Flaking of the cliff wall and the limestone excretions have badly damaged the paintings; rain also falls directly on the paintings. As far as we know, the site has never been adequately documented.