Contested Images: Rock Art Heritage on and off the Rocks

Author(s): Jamie Hampson

Year: 2016

Summary

In many countries, cultural and socio-political identity is still shaped, manipulated, and presented through rock art. Both on and off the rocks, pictographs and petroglyphs are powerful tools. In this poster, I present results from ten years of fieldwork in southern Africa, northern Australia, and west Texas. I focus on re-contextualised rock art images, in commercial settings, in academic publications, and as integral components of national symbols. I also consider innovative new visitor centres concerned with conservation, job creation, promoting community archaeology, and – above all – challenging visitors’ preconceptions of rock art and of the Indigenous peoples who made it.

Cite this Record

Contested Images: Rock Art Heritage on and off the Rocks. Jamie Hampson. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404346) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8T43VVZ

Keywords

General
heritage Rock Art

Geographic Keywords
AFRICA

Spatial Coverage

min long: -18.809; min lat: -38.823 ; max long: 53.244; max lat: 38.808 ;

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