Adelaide AURA Inter-Congress Symposium

Robert G. Bednarik auraweb@hotmail.com

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The 2012 AURA Inter-Congress Symposium was held in Adelaide, at Flinders University, on the weekend 22–23 September 2012.



    

    Field Trip

Rock art tour, Mid-North Region
24 and 25 September 2012

This two-day tour visited rock art sites at Redbanks Conservation Park [link to http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/parks/Find_a_Park/Browse_by_region/Clare_Valley/Red_Banks_Conservation_Park], near Burra, and on private property at Ketchola, south of Trewoie.  It will be led by Ngadjuri Elder Vince Copley senior and his son Vincent Copley junior. Accommodation will be overnight at Tivers Row Heritage Cottages [link to www.burraheritagecottages.com.au/], Burra.  



The Panaramitee 'crocodile head' petroglyph

This famous petroglyph has long been removed from its site and stored in Adelaide. Livio Dobrez arranged a viewing of it by conference participants, on 21 September at 2.30 pm, with the help of Keryn Walshe, Curator at the SA Museum, and Quenten Agius Narungga, Indigenous Custodian of the petroglyph.


SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

Saturday, 22 September 2012
0700–0800: Registration
0800: Introduction    (chaired by Robert G. Bednarik)
            ben Gunn                   Welcome
            Vince Copley senior              Welcome to country
 Pilbara – SW Western Australia
Liam M. Brady
Styles and sequences at the Lukis Granites site complex in the Woodstock Abydos protected reserve, Pilbara, Western Australia
Victoria Wade, Craig Westell and Vivienne Wood
A context and description of recently recorded engraved art in the western Hamersley Plateau, Pilbara, Western Australia
Alana M. Rossi
Re-analysis of Frieze Cave, a rock art site near York, south-western Australia
1000–1030:     Morning tea
Kimberley (chaired by Ken Mulvaney)
June Ross and Meg Travers
A time and a place for everything: intra-site and inter-site spatial distribution of rock art styles in northwest Kimberley
Mike Donaldson
What’s in a name? New Aboriginal names for the variety of painted human figures historically called ‘Bradshaws’
Joc Schmiechen
Unpegging the clothes peg figures. Some insights into the Bradshaw (Gwion) clothes peg figure period
Lee Scott-Virtue and Dean Goodgame
Inherent problems associated with the current chronology and nomenclature of Kimberley rock art: 30 years of evidence from the Kimberley
1230–1330: Lunch
Kimberley (cont. Ken Mulvaney)
Meg Travers
On the straight and narrow: a stylistic discussion of the Wararrajai Gwion period, northwest Kimberley
Graeme K. Ward
Kimberley and the Fitzmaurice: similarities and differences among rock-markings
David M. Welch
Oh dear! No deer!
Jeff Doring
Gwion Gwion artists = Wunan law: Law as the motivation for extended human imagery on
rock
1530–1600: Afternoon tea
Conservation (chaired by Tristen Jones)
Lee Scott-Virtue and Ju Ju ‘Burriwee’ Wilson
The impact of fire on rock art sites: evidence from the Kimberley, Western Australia
Andrew Thorn
The preservation of friable calcitic engravings
Natalie Franklin
Monitoring change at Aboriginal rock art sites
Lance Syme, Cliff Ogleby, Andrew Thorn and R. (ben) Gunn
Re-locating the Yambou 1 petroglyphs
  
Sunday, 23 September 2012
0800:   Arnhem Land (chaired by Meg Travers)
Sally K. May and John Hayward
Mirarr Gunwarddebim
Tristen Jones, Christian Reepmeyer and Daryl Wesley
The black pigment art of Red Lily Lagoon
Cybèle McNeil
Rock art in western Arnhem Land: issues of gender, love-magic and sorcery
Jordan Ralph
Signs of communication: an archaeology of contemporary Indigenous graffiti in Jawoyn Country, Northern Territory
1000–1030: Morning tea
North and east (chaired by Graeme Ward)
Daryl Wesley, Tristen Jones, Rose Whitau, Bruce Brown and Jasmine Robertson
People and fish: rock art of the Red Lily Lagoon Precinct
W. J. Ellwood, N. B. Winn, J. B. Campbell, O. C. Ray and T. McConnell
Cultural landscapes and the art of Castle Rock: Chillagoe, north Queensland
Julie Dibden
The Upper Nepean rock art sequence; change and continuity
Caryll Sefton
Molluscs, fish and eels on the coastal estuary and hinterland of the Woronora Plateau
1230–1330: Lunch
Methods (chaired by Claire Smith)
Susan Lowish
Rock art and art history: exploring disciplinary perspectives
Livio Dobrez and Patricia Dobrez
Rock art animals in profile: visual recognition and the principle of canonical form
Margaret Bullen
Every picture tells a story — or does it?
R. G. (ben) Gunn
The ‘Ngar-mimi’ motif from the Arnhem Land Plateau
1530–1600: Afternoon tea
Overseas and at home (chaired by Jordan Ralph)
Fred Hardtke
Rock art in context: the third season of rock art research in Hierakonpolis, Egypt
R. Esmee Webb
A face is just a face, right? Thoughts on the similarities and differences between petroglyphic depictions of human faces in Pilbara and Caribbean rock art
Robert G. Bednarik    
Megafauna depictions in Australian rock art
David M. Welch
Gender and seniority in northern Australian rock art
1800: Closing thanks

Additional papers
Jeff Doring
Gwion Gwion art is not silent: expert dialogue and discussion animates rock art in layers of significance
Lee Scott-Virtue
Placed rock, painted and engraved images of ‘maps of country’: archaeological evidence from the Kimberley
Joc Schmiechen
What are the classic Bradshaw (Gwion) animals? Identifying the ‘classic” Bradshaw (Gwion) animal associations?
Andrew Thorn
Post contact analysis
David M. Welch
Pits, cupules and pounding hollows


The proceedings of the Symposium are to be edited by ben Gunn, and published by AURA.


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