China’s rock art discipline: at the crossroads. Reconstruct China’s rock art discipline by anthropological theory and approach

Resumen

Marginalized by the mainstream Archaeology, rock art studies is currently an embarrassing discipline in China. As the cultural heritage produced by the early human, however, rock art possesses research values and realistic signifi cance of paramount importance. In the contemporary context of inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural research, to refl ect the disciplinary hedges by integrating the academic perspectives as well as cutting-edge ideas of anthropological holism is conducive to eliminate the superfi cial mystery of rock art, to restore its authenticity of humanistic spirit, to conduct theoretical and applied research with both feet on the ground, to construct the academic idea of Anthropology of Rock Art and to re-shape the humanistic care which rock art heritage exerts on the contemporary society.