Griffith Universitys Laureate
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Professor Paul Taçon, ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and Chair in Rock Art Research and Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in the School of Humanities at Griffith University in Australia, reflects on his archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork since 1980 with over 90 months field experience in remote parts of Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, southern Africa, Thailand, the Philippines and the USA. He explains why rock art - the longest lasting archive of visual experience - must incorporate a synthesis of rock art conservation indigenous well-being, a combination of western science traditional knowledge. • Paul Taçon, is a member of the Rock Art Network. The Rock Art Network, established by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Bradshaw Foundation, comprises individuals and institutions committed to the promotion, protection, and conservation of rock art globally. • Rock art - ancient paintings and engravings on rock surfaces - is a visual record of global human history. It is a shared heritage that links us to powerful ancestral worlds and magnificent landscapes of the past. It tells the story of the birthplaces of art, the dawn of artistic endeavors. It creates connections to significant places and depicts encounters with the surrounding living world. Through its existence nature and culture are connected in the landscape. It resonates with our individual and collective identity while stimulating a vital sense of belonging to a greater past. Rock art illustrates the passage of time over tens of thousands of years of environmental and cultural change. It incarnates the essence of human ingenuity and facilitates contacts today between cultures and aspects of spirituality. Rock art is artistically compelling and full of meaning. This fragile and irreplaceable visual heritage has worldwide significance, contemporary relevance and for many indigenous peoples is still part of their living culture. If we neglect, destroy, or disrespect rock art we devalue our future. • To learn more about the Rock Art Network visit: • http://bradshawfoundation.com/rockart...
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