ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that the lens of mobility complements and expands existing models of rock art as fixed points in space. There are paintings and petroglyphs of boats, horses, dugout canoes, camels, aeroplanes and cars. Cave paintings were not only intended to represent movement but that sequential animation is evident in the rock art of Chauvet Cave and other Palaeolithic art/objects. The study of mobility, as manifest through hunter-gatherer lifeways, technologies of movement, and cultural exchange has long been a focus of archaeological inquiry. Despite the prominence given to fixity in space, there is also considerable evidence for mobility in rock art. Australian rock art research is strongly influenced by ethnoarchaeology and anthropological knowledge. Mobility was integral to the access, making and maintenance of rock art images and landscapes. Spaces and connections themselves become reduced to spaces and connections between places, thereby losing their intrinsic relevance.
