Rock Art and Memory in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge

This book shares and offers new insights into the study of rock art and its role in the memorization processes, social memory, and the passing of knowledge. Rock art is acknowledged to be a significant aspect of human creativity and cultural heritage, and this work explores its use in passing culture down from generation to generation. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach which allows one to visualize rock art’s entanglement with a broader range of material culture and people, because such relations are pivotal to the understanding of the intersections of memory and rock art.
This volume brings forward thought-provoking archaeological work by discussing methodological and theoretical approaches towards the study of rock art and memory through perspectives such as landscape, gender, material culture and ontology. The book addresses a particular concern that archaeological research faces on all fronts which is the critical use of ethnography used to elucidate how humanity uses and has used rock art to transmit knowledge.