Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface xvii
5. Introduction. Behind the Scenes: Did Scenes in Rock Art Create New Ways of Seeing the World? 1
6. Chapter 1. Scenes and Non-Scenes in Rock Art 16
7. Chapter 2. The Possible Signifi cance of Depicted Scenes for Cognitive Development 32
8. Chapter 3. Event Depiction in Rock Art: Landscape-Embedded Plan-View Narratives, Decontextualized Profile “Scenes,” and Their Hybrid Instances 51
9. Chapter 4. Defining “Scenes” in Rock Art Research: Visual Conventions and Beyond 67
10. Chapter 5. Putting Southern African Rock Paintings in Context: The View from the Mirabib Rock Shelter, Western Namibia 75
11. Chapter 6. Scenic Narratives of Humans and Animals in Namibian Rock Art: A Methodological Restart with Data Mining 90
12. Chapter 7. Between Scene and Association: Toward a Better Understanding of Scenes in the Rock Art of Iran 107
13. Chapter 8. Music and Dancing Scenes in the Rock Art of Central India 122
14. Chapter 9. Hunting and Havoc: Narrative Scenes in the Black Desert Rock Art of Jebel Qurma, Jordan 134
15. Chapter 10. Making a Scene: An Analysis of Rock Art Panels from the Northwest Kimberley and Central Desert, Australia 150
16. Chapter 11. Scene but Not Heard: Seeing Scenes in a Northern Australian Aboriginal Site 162
17. Chapter 12. A Comparison of “Scenes” in Parietal and Non-Parietal Upper Paleolithic Imagery: Formal Differences and Ontological Implications 179
18. Chapter 13. Scene Makers: Finger Fluters in Rouffignac Cave, France 194
19. Chapter 14. Maps in Prehistoric Art 207
20. Chapter 15. Scenes in the Paleolithic and Levantine Art of Eastern Spain 223
21. Chapter 16. New Insights into the Analysis of Levantine Rock Art Scenes Informed by Observations on Western Arnhem Land Rock Art 240
22. Chapter 17. Rules of Ordering and Grouping in the Pitoti, the Later Prehistoric Rock Engravings of Valcamonica (BS), Italy: from Solitary Figures through Clusters, Graphic Groups, and Scenes to Narrative 259
23. Chapter 18. Finding Order out of Chaos: A Statistical Analysis of Nine Mile Canyon Rock Art 277
24. Chapter 19. Interpreting Scenes in the Rock Art of the Canadian Maritimes 295
25. Chapter 20. The “Black Series” in the Hunting Scenes of Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, Patagonia, Argentina 310
26. Epilogue. Is There More to Scenes than Meets the Eye? 327
27. INDEX 332