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Mt. Gilruth revisited
Author(s) -
Haskovec Ivan P.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.1992.tb00285.x
Subject(s) - sequence (biology) , style (visual arts) , assertion , naturalism , archaeology , rock art , painting , key (lock) , geology , history , paleontology , art history , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , computer security , programming language , genetics , biology
Following some difficulties identifying the 'Large Naturalistic Figures' style paintings of Chaloupka's (1979) chronological model, I travelled to Mt. Gilruth‐Djarwanmbi to the two original sites of Chaloupka's chronological model of Amhem Land plateau rock art, to reassess the definition of Chaloupka's Large Naturalistic style. At neither of the two 'key sites of the sequence' (Chaloupka 1977) could I find the later 'Dynamic Figures' style overlaying the Large Naturalistic style, despite Chaloupka's assertion. A review of Chaloupka's published and unpublished reports suggests that no such evidence exists. My own research at other sites and other data shows that Chaloupka's outline of the chronological sequence is not supported by the evidence at the two sites. I have re‐interpreted the sequence and outlined a hypothetical rock art sequence.