Working with Rock Art

Benjamin Smith is the Winthrop Professor of World Rock Art at the Centre for Rock Art Research and Management at the University of Western Australia. He is the former director of the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is the author of Seeing and Knowing: Rock Art with and without Ethnography.

This volume contains cutting edge contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant contribution to the discipline. The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres, and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new collaborative research--Internet.