Myths About Rock Art  

作　　者：Robert G. Bednarik 

机构地区：[1]IFRAO (International Federation of Rock Art Organizations), Caulfield South, Australia

出　　处：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2013年第8期482-500,共19页文学与艺术研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Rather than addressing the myths or cosmologies supposedly expressed in rock art, this paper explores some of the myths that have been and are still being created about rock art. We know from the study of the last rock art-producing peoples in the world that outsiders of their cultures cannot interpret their rock art correctly, or even understand their cosmologies adequately. This is not surprising, in view of the neuroscientific understanding of the underlying differences. In a sound hermeneutical system, the normative nature of interpretation must be recognized and accounted for. The record shows that little hermeneutical restraint has been exercised in rock art research, and that the discipline＇s credibility demands the expulsion of the extensive myths that have been created by it. Some of the most prominent of these falsities are presented to illustrate the point.

关 键 词：rock art EPISTEMOLOGY interpretation dating extinct fauna SHAMANISM NEUROPATHOLOGY 

分 类 号：P159[天文地球—天文学] TS933[轻工技术与工程]