Rock Art Science: The Scientific Study Of Palaeoart. By Robert G. Bednarik, Second Edition, Expanded and Updated. Aryan Books, International, New Delhi, 2007; 220 Pages. Price $A 80.00, ISBN 81-7305-319-7

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In the uncertain horizon of a discipline in desperate need for consensus, a man stands alone, raising high above personal feuds a warning flag on which the reader can read: “We cannot afford to get it wrong, the resource is not renewable!” ... Veiled behind a storm of reforms is Bednarik’s genuine attempt, a timely effort, at bringing cohesion to a discipline in desperate need for consensus by shaking the dogmatic foundations of a parasitic and dominant discourse. As it stands, rock art plays a quasi-nonexistent role in the overall palaeo-sciences. Bednarik’s reforms are good starting points to establish rock art as a fully-fledged discipline. Dr Yann-Pierre Montelle

Rock art researchers owe Bednarik a great debt for establishing AURA, the internationally refereed journal Rock Art Research and his efforts to establish IFRAO. He has tirelessly led campaigns to save rock art from development-related destruction in many parts of the world and has published hundreds of papers. In Rock Art Science, he offers his overall vision for the study of rock art. Professor Paul Taçon

Table of Contents

• Rock art science: an introduction
• The study of rock art in a historical perspective
• The discrimination of natural and artificial rock markings
• The technology of rock art
• The recording of rock art
• The conservation of rock art
• The dating of rock art
• The interpretation of rock art
• Some methods of rock art science
• Portable palaeoart
• Resources in rock art research
• Rock art glossary

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