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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 0800: Introduction (chaired by Robert G. Bednarik) ben Gunn Welcome Vince Copley senior Welcome to country 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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