Animals into Art

Abstract

Part 1 A question of identity: the identification of human and animal figures in European palaeolithic art, Jean Clottes reflections and rejections of an Aboriginal artist, Ivan P.Haskovec and Hilary Sullivan the snake and the fabulous beast - themes from the pottery of the Ilama culture, Marianne Cardale Schrimpff. Part 2 Representations: from man to animal and sign in palaeolithic art, Michel Lorblanchet on representing ancestral beings, Howard Morphy figurative and schematic rock art of Kenya - animal representation and tentative interpretation, Osaga Odak finding symbols in history, Whitney Davis. Part 3 Compositions - frequencies and scenes: concepts of humans and animals in post-contact Micmac rock art, Brian Molyneaux an approach to the theme of confronted animals in French palaeolithic art, Anne-Catherine Welte art and the essence of being - symbolic and economic aspects of fish among the peoples of western Arnhem Land, Australia, Paul S.C.Tacon. Part 4 The meanings of the motifs: supper or symbol - roadrunner tracks in south-western art and ritual, Polly Schaafsma the bat in Tairona art - an under-recognized species, Anne Legast animals and zoomorphs in rock art of the Koolburra region, North Queensland, Josephine Flood Susquehannock animal art and iconography, W.Fred Kinsey III animal metaphor in art from the Solomon Islands, Deborah B.Waite the bestiary of rupestrian and literary origin in the Sahara and the Sahel, Jeannine Drouin dance in the rock art of central India, Sudha Malaiya. Part 5 Interpreting the system: seeing the inside - Kunwinjku paintings and the symbol of the divided body, Luke Taylor camelids in the Andes - rock art environment and myths, Jose Berenguer and Jose Luis Martinez social roles of animal iconography - implications for archaeology from Hopi and Zuni ethnographic sources, Nancy H.Olsen freedom of information - aspects of art and society in western Europe during the last Ice Age, Iain Davidson.