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Title: | Time, Space, and Image Making: Rock Art from Dhar Tichitt (Mauritania) |
Author: | Holl, Augustin F.C. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | African Archaeological Review |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 75-118 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mauritania |
Subjects: | Stone Age rock art Architecture and the Arts Anthropology and Archaeology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015479826570 |
Abstract: | Prehistoric images are particularly versatile and difficult to grasp. In a few cases of historical continuity, local cultural glosses provide researchers with a rich corpus of data and help in the interpretation of the imagery. Such approaches contribute to the interpretation of the material in a 'frozen time' perspective. Their impact on the development of archaeological methodologies enabling researchers to deal with strictly prehistoric image making traditions without any known descendant communities remains to be felt. This paper is an attempt to develop a subtle and robust archaeological methodology for the study of prehistoric images. The rock art from the Dhar Tichitt region (south-central Mauritania), which was settled by Late Stone Age agropastoral communities from c. 2000 to 500 BC, serves as an illustration. The suggested approaches are replicable, and conclusions are falsifiable. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |