Abstract

Arnhem Land, which has one of the longest records of human activity on the Australian continent, also holds one of the most important assemblages of rock art in the world. Indigenous artistic practice in this region has continued since before the Last Glacial Maximum through to the modern day, a period of at least 28 thousand years, during which time the region has undergone significant environmental and palaeogeographical changes. Rock art research in the area, however, has not considered high resolution palaeolandscape data, but rather has used coarser scale regional environmental models. This paper addresses this issue, applying detailed palaeogeographic modelling of current and former landscapes in the Red Lily Lagoon region in eastern Arnhem Land, to the spatial analysis of rock art site placement in this important cultural landscape. The resultant elevation, land cover and visibility modelling reveal significant changes in site placement strategies for rock art in the region, which appear to relate to four key phases of the landscape change that have occurred from the late Pleistocene to the late Holocene.

中文翻译：

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不断变化的视角：景观演变对岩石艺术视域的影响

摘要

阿纳姆地是澳大利亚大陆上人类活动记录最长的地区之一，也是世界上最重要的岩石艺术组合之一。该地区的土著艺术实践从末次盛冰期之前一直持续到现代，至少有 28000 年的时间，在此期间该地区经历了重大的环境和古地理变化。然而，该地区的岩画研究并未考虑高分辨率的古景观数据，而是使用了较粗尺度的区域环境模型。本文解决了这个问题，应用阿纳姆地东部红百合泻湖地区当前和以前景观的详细古地理模型，对这一重要文化景观中的岩石艺术遗址布局进行空间分析。由此产生的海拔、土地覆盖和能见度模型揭示了该地区岩石艺术选址策略的显着变化，这似乎与从更新世晚期到全新世晚期发生的景观变化的四个关键阶段有关。