ABSTRACT
The archaeological perspectives on non-verbal communication draw on the understanding of wider relationships between people, things and ideas in the past and the present. Interpreting visual art allows archaeologists to participate in the cross-disciplinary understanding of visual communication that spans archaeology, anthropology and the history of art. In the social context of story-telling, the prehistoric rock art composition indexes the relationships between the different actors who were performing different activities while the whale was being towed to the shore. Disembodied Embodiment – the Corporeality of Visual Art and Interwoven Landscapes, focused on the corporeality of self, embodiment and disembodiment, where the interpretation of prehistoric figurines ranging from autogenous to allgenous representations was looked at from the different theoretical perspectives of dividuality, performativity, actor-network theory, fragmentation and performativity. This chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
