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Rock Art: A Brief Bibliography

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Bahn, Paul G. 1995 New developments in Pleistocene art. Evolutionary Anthropology 4(6):204-215.

Bednarik, Robert G. 1994 A taphonomy of palaeoart. Antiquity 6868-74.

Bouchet-Bert, Luc 1999 From spiritual and biographic to boundary-marking deterrent art: A reinterpretation of Writing-on-Stone. Plains Anthropologist 44(167):27-46.

Burton, Jeffrey F. and Mary M. Farrell 1989 An introduction to the rock art of Southeast Arizona. Rock Art Papers: San Diego Museum Papers 24(6):1-16.

Clogg, Phil, Margarita Diaz-Andreu, and Brian Larkman 2000 Digital image processing and the recording of rock art. Journal of Archaeological Science 27837-843.

David, Bruno, et al. 1999 How old is north Queensland's rock-art? A review of the evidence, with new AMS determinations. Archaeology in Oceania 34(103-120):

Deacon, Janette 1999 South African rock art. Evolutionary Anthropology 8(2):48-63.

Dematte, Paola 2004 Beyond shamanism: Landscape and self-expression in the petroglyphs of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia (China). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1(5-23):

Fairén. Sara 2004 Rock-art and the transition to farming. The Neolithic landscape of the central Mediterranean coast of Spain. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 23(1):1-19.

Francis, Julie E., Lawrence L. Loendorf, and Ronald I. Dorn 1993 AMS radicarbon and cation-ratio dating of rock art in the Bighorn basin of Wyoming and Montata. American Antiquity 58(4):711-738.

Lanteigne, Maurice P. 1991 Cation-ratio dating of rock-engravings: a critical appraisal. Antiquity 65292-295.

Lewis-Williams, J. D. 1997 Agency, art, and altered consciousness: A motif in French (Quercy) Upper Paleolithic parietal art. Antiquity 71810-830.

Lymer, Kenneth 2004 Shimmering visions: Shamanistic rock art images from the republic of Kazakhstan. Expedition 46

Quinlan, Angus R. and David Witley 2000 The ventriloquist's dummy: a critical review of shamanism and rock art in far western North America. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 22(1):92-108.

Redmond, Anthony 2002 "Alien abductions," Kimberly Aboriginal rock-paintings, and the speculation about human origins: One some investments in cultural tourism in the northern Kimberly. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2002(2):54-64.

Schaafsma, Polly 1975 The horse in rock art. El Palacio 81(3):4-5.

Simek, Jan F., Jay D. Franklin, and Sarah C. Sherwood 1998 The context of early southeastern prehistoric cave art: A report on the archaeology of 3rd Unnamed Cave. American Antiquity 63(4):663-677.

Smith, Benjamin W. and Sven Ouzman 2004 Taking Stock: Identifying Khoekhoen Herder Rock Art in Southern Africa. Current Anthropology 45(4):499-526.

Smith, Benjamin W. and Johan A. Van Schalkwyk 2002 The white camel of the Makgabeng. Journal of African History 43235-254.

Solomon, Anne 1992 Gender, representation, and power in San ethnography and rock art. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11291-329.

Sundstrom, Linea 2002 Steel Awls for Stone Age Plainswomen: Rock Art, Religion, and the Hide Trade on the Northern Plains. Plains Anthropologist 47(99-120):

Turpin, Solveig A. 1988 Rock art of the Despoblado. Archaeology 41(5):50-55.

Turpin, Solveig A. 1986 Toward a Definition of a Pictograph Style: The Lower Pecos Bold Line Geometric. Plains Anthropologist 31(112):153-161.

Watchman, A. L. and R. Jones 1998 Dating rock images in the tropical monsoon region of northern Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies 1998(2):64-70.

Watchman, Alan, Paul Tacon, Richard Fullagar, and Lesley Head 2000 Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, northwestern Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 351-10.

Whitley, David S., et al. 1999 Sally's rockshelter and the archaeology of the vision quest. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9(2):221-247.

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