| Abstract: |
This paper introduces work exploring the specific social and environmental contexts of rock art in Thailand alongside considerations gleaned from rock art research in other parts of the world as a foundation for analysis of data gathered during fieldwork in 2011. This research examines the frequency, distribution, correlation and manner of faunal representations in Thai rock art, and uses this analysis to explore whether considerations of metabolism, mythology, magic and/or metaphor are relevant to the corpus, and by extension help to understand why the rock art of Thailand was produced.
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