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Robert G. Bednarik auranet@optusnet.com.au
Dampier petroglyph
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This image is presumed to be of the extinct thylacine. If plans to destroy Dampier rock art are allowed to proceed, it will become extinct as well.

AURANET currently operates two sites soliciting support for saving specific rock art complexes, one on the Guadiana River in southern Portugal, the other in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia. Both properties are very major rock art concentrations, both are under severe threat of destruction by government plans and their continued existence hangs in the balance. It depends largely on the support of our petitions to save these irreplaceable cultural monuments. Thank you for taking the time to sign them.
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A U R A N E T . L I B R A R Y

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The following general discussion or research articles deal with current issues in rock art research. Please open these papers by clicking on the links, but note that these are large files that take a little time to load. Thank you for your patience.



Open Access article in Humanities, The origins of human modernity, PDF file of 1.25 MB.

Appendix 1' of 'Visitor books in the management of rock art sites: an evaluation using Carnarvon Gorge as a test case, by Natalie R. Franklin, in Rock Art Research, Vol. 28(2), November 2011.

Ethnographic analogy in rock art interpretation, by Robert G. Bednarik (March 2011).

Are Neanderthal portraits wrong? Neanderthal adaptations to cold and their impact on Palaeolithic populations, a PDF file of 519 MB, by Duncan Caldwell, first published in Rock Art Research in 2008.

Afterthoughts about the Neanderthal insulation hypothesis, a PDF file of 276 MB, by Duncan Caldwell, first published in AURA Newsletter in 2008.


The epistemology of Pleistocene archaeology, a series of 8 lectures at Semiotics Institute Online, University of Toronto, presented from March to October 2008.

Children as Pleistocene artists, PDF file of 682 KB, first published in Rock Art Research, the premier journal in its discipline, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 173-182, Nov. 2008.

The origins of symboling, PDF file of 459 KB, first published in Signs, the foremost electronic journal in semiotics, Vol. 2, pp. 82-113, 2008
ISSN: 1902-8822.

Rock-markings and sustainable Indigenous Australian cultural heritage tourism PDF file of 2.08 MB, by Graeme K. Ward, first published in 2007.

Cupules, a comprehensive paper about the world's most common rock art motif, PDF file of 2.75 MB, first published in RAR, May 2008.

The science of Dampier rock art - part 1, PDF file of 2.4 MB, from November 2007 issue of Rock Art Research.

Lower Palaeolithic rock art of India and its global context. PDF file, 650 KB.

Concerns in rock art science. PDF file, 389 KB.

New dating evidence from the Coa valley, Portugal. PDF file, 626 KB.

The earliest known palaeoart, PDF file, 452 KB.

Sorting the ibex from the goats in Portugal. PDF file, 466 KB.

Palaeolithic cave art in Britain?, a brief discussion of a new discovery in Derbyshire, England.

From circle and square to the image of the world: a possible interpretation for some petroglyphs on merels boards, Part 1 of a paper by F. Berger, republished from Rock Art Research.

From circle and square ..., Part 2 of the paper by F. Berger.

Cave art in Australasia, a summary the the world's second-largest cave art concentration.

The cave petroglyphs of Australia, a detailed review of this phenomenon. PDF file, 386 KB.

The introduction of rock art dating in 1980, PDF file, 577 KB.

Dating Australian rock markings, by G. K. Ward and C. Tuniz.

Petroglyphs in Italian Alps dated, PDF file, 278 KB.

First dating of Pilbara petroglyphs, PDF file, 645 KB.

Re-thinking aesthetics and rock art, by J. Clegg and T. Heyd. PDF file, 50 KB.

Palaeoart on Indian territory, by A. Faradjev, in Russian. PDF file, 343 KB.

Art, perception and information processing, an evolutionary perspective by D. Hodgson.

The earliest evidence of palaeoart, by R. G. Bednarik, with comments by 12 scholars. PDF file, 912 KB.

On the cognitive development of hominins, PDF file, 376 KB.

Cupules - the oldest surviving rock art, PDF file, 584 KB.

The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic origins of semiotics, PDF file, 264 KB.

Application of philosophy of science in rock art research (2003).

Metamorphology: in lieu of uniformitarianism (2002).

Towards a philosophy of rock art study, PDF file, 74 KB.

Crisis in Palaeolithic art studies (2002).

A taphonomy of palaeoart, PDF file, 347 KB.

Taphonomic logic for dummies, PDF file, 45 KB.

Boundaries: editorial in Semiotic Review (1998).

A unified theory for palaeoart studies, PDF file, 157 KB.

The maritime dispersal of Pleistocene humans, PDF file, 392 KB.

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