Panaramitee style
The Panaramitee or Panaramitee style (English: Panaramitee Rock Engravings ) refers to a form of petroglyphs , i.e. rock carvings, which occur in all arid and semi-arid areas of Australia . It is named after the Panaramintee station, which is about 320 kilometers to the northeast of Adelaide in South Australia : There are numerous rock carvings that have been scientifically described in detail.
Style direction
On the Panaramitee site there are thousands of rock drawings, some of which are only 10 × 10 cm in size and show animal and bird tracks, radial and line shapes in different sizes and designs. There are also few human footprints, accumulations of points, figures and, for example, reptiles that have been carved into the rock.
The oldest forms are estimated to be 14,000 years old and a study found that around 62 percent of the incisions show traces and 34 percent geometric shapes. This Aboriginal art style can be traced back to these two basic forms, which also occur in other prehistoric and traditional Aboriginal art forms and is therefore also referred to as the path and circle style .
Near Panaramitee Station, most of the rock carvings are in the Panaramitee Hill Group, Panaramitee North, Rock Holes, and Salt Creek.
literature
- Peter Marius Veth, MA Smith, Peter Hiscock (2005): desert people. archeological perspectives. 2005. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1-4051-3753-3 . Available online
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SA Museum Panaramitee ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 8.29 MB) p. 3
- ^ MJ Morwood, DR Hobbs: Visions from the past. ISBN 1-86448-717-8 Available online
- ↑ http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_121503246/panaramitee_rock_engravings.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
