Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/60504
Title: Shifting worlds: post-contact rock art in Central Australia
Contributor(s): Ross, June  (author)
Publication Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1080/03122417.2018.1547949
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/60504
Abstract: 

A substantial quantity of rock art was produced in central Australia in the period following contact between the Indigenous population and Europeans in the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries. An analysis of the post-contact rock art assemblage indicates that, despite the abrupt disruption to traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyles, the Indigenous response to the European invasion in this region was more positive, resilient and creative than early historians assumed. Significantly, many elements of the precontact assemblage continued to be produced or reworked whilst the range of production techniques expanded. Innovations emerged with a number of older forms of representation being replaced by newer forms, a range of new subject matter was introduced, and new means of flagging identity were created alongside the old. Analysis of the post-contact rock art assemblage has demonstrated that Aboriginal people in central Australia were active participants in change, mediating their interactions with the intruders in innovative ways.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Grant Details: ARC/DP0877463
Source of Publication: Australian Archaeology, 84(3), p. 219-231
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 2470-0363
0312-2417
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 4501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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