V. Blundell's research while affiliated with Carleton University and other places
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This chapter focuses on Gonjorong's Cave, a rock shelter in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. Gonjorong's Cave contains paintings of anthropomorphic figures known as Wandjina, a distinctive feature of the Wandjina-Woongudd homeland. The Wandjina-Woongudd Community is a distinct society of Australian Aboriginal people that includes the Wo...
Rock Art, Cosmology, and the Wanjina-Wunggurr Cultural LandscapeGwion GwionRock Art and Aboriginal IdentitiesWunggurr Conception SitesWurnanThe Ritual Re-Painting of Rock ArtRock Art as the Basis for Contemporary Works of ArtRock Art, Aboriginal Heritage, and Native TitleConclusions
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... Dowson 1996): that is, to increase and broaden awareness of the role of rock art in the contemporary world (e.g. Baracchini and Monney 2018;Blundell and Woolagoodja 2012;Blundell et al. 2018;Brady and Taçon 2016;Gwasira et al. 2017;Rogers 2018;Rozwadowski 2014Rozwadowski , 2019Russell and Russell-Cook 2018). As Marisa Giorgi and Dale Harding state, one admirable -and indeed achievable -aim is surely to overcome 'a static view of rock art as being from the past and not having contemporary relevance.' ...
... In Australia there has been less work in the vein of Leroi-Gourhan and Lewis-Williams that explores the use of superimpositioning in the unpacking and explaining of the syntax underlying the art, but there has been a strong focus on the meaningful nature of some superimpositioning when it takes the form of repainting and retouching (e.g. Blundell and Woolagoodja, 2012;McDonald and Veth, 2013;Morphy, 2012;Motta, 2019;Mowaljarlai et al., 1988). These studies emphasise long-term processes of Aboriginal cultural renewal and maintenance of rock art. ...
... 64 Tom Vigilante similarly concluded that most 'smokes' were defensive signals. 65 Thus Roth's and Spencer's curious denial of 'smoke language' might be due 'to the disinclination of the natives to yield up information in their possession'. 66 In ancient Greece and Rome, beacon messages were originally simple but eventually developed something similar to Morse code. ...
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