Adaptation or Aesthetic Alleviation: Which Kind of Evolution Do We See in Saharan Herder Rock Art of
Northeast Chad?
期刊名称： Cambridge Archaeological Journal
作者： Tilman Lensn-Erz
年份： 2012年
期号： 第1期
关键词： communities of practice;community
archaeology;experts/experti;Papua New Guinea
摘要：During the middle and late Holocene, the prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara articulated their agency under conditions of aridification in part through aesthetic symbolic behaviour that became petrified, as it were, in ubiquitous rock art. Rock art, predominantly depicting domestic animals, continu
ed to be produced throughout the later Holocene, despite deteriorating environmental conditions
that necessitated other adaptive strategies. Artistic production appears to have ignored the environmental changes and evolved an aesthetic that, initially, celebrated animals for the function for which they were domesticated and, subquently, for their looks, symbolic capital and potential to express status. In
the most recent periods, art production evolves into a symbolism that is entirely bad on, and communicated through, camel imagery.
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