TY  - BOOK
AU  - David, Bruno.
AU  - Bruno David.
TI  - Landscapes, Rock-Art and the Dreaming: : An Archaeology of Preunderstanding
SN  - 9781350345003
U1  - 306.0973 DAV 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - ,New York
PB  - : Bloomsbury 
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Anthropological Archaeology
KW  - Landscapes, Rock-Art
N2  - The apparent timelessness of the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia has long mystified European observers, conjuring images of an ancient people in harmony with their surroundings. It may come as a surprise, therefore, that the Dreaming's historical antiquity had never been explored by archaeologists prior to this study. In this seminal text in rock-art research, now reissued with a new preface, Bruno David examines the archaeological evidence for Dreaming-mediated places, rituals and symbolism. What emerges is not a static culture, but a mode of conceiving the world that emerged in its recognizable form only about 1,000 years ago. This is a world of what the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has called pre-understanding, a condition of knowledge that shapes one's experience of the world. By tracing through time the archaeological visibility of one well known mode of pre-understanding - the Dreaming of Aboriginal Australia - the author argues that it is possible to scientifically explore an archaeology of pre-understanding; of body and mind, identity and Being-in-the-world
ER  -