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Article: Spatial syntax of rock art.(Report)
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- Rock Art Research
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Spatial analysis has proven to be amongst the most fruitful research lines for rock art studies. There is a long tradition of spatial approaches that rely on a functionalist perspective and conceive rock art, for instance, related to mobility routes, resource limiting and/or economic practices (Barton et al. 1994; Bradley et al. 1994; Munoz and Briones 1998). Over the last decade it has also become popular to use perspectives that consider space as a social, cultural and historically significant product. These approaches assess issues related to the building and 'semantisation' of landscape (Bradley 1997; Nash 2000; Ouzman 1995).
Current conjunction of both ...