A Comparative Study Of Rock Art In Later Prehistoric Europe
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Author | : Richard Bradley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1108887872 |
The Element summarises the state of knowledge about four styles of prehistoric rock art in Europe current between the late Mesolithic period and the Iron Age. They are the Levantine, Macroschematic and Schematic traditions in the Iberian Peninsula; the Atlantic style that extended between Portugal, Spain, Britain and Ireland; Alpine rock art; and the pecked and painted images found in Fennoscandia. They are interpreted in relation to the landscapes in which they were made. Their production is related to monument building, the decoration of portable objects, trade and long distance travel, burial rites, and warfare. A final discussion considers possible connections between these separate traditions and the changing subject matter of rock art in relation to wider developments in European prehistoric societies.
Author | : Aron Mazel |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2022-08-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 180327252X |
This lavishly illustrated volume presents a state of the art survey of the ancient rock art of Britain and Ireland. Bringing together new discoveries and new interpretations, it enhances our understanding and further establishes ancient British and Irish rock art as a significant archaeological assemblage worthy of attention and additional study.
Author | : Paul Frodsham |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2022-09-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1803273178 |
Stan Beckensall is renowned for his work, done on an entirely amateur basis, discovering, recording and interpreting Atlantic rock art in his home county of Northumberland and beyond. Presented on his 90th birthday, this diverse and stimulating collection of papers celebrates his crucial contribution to rock art studies, and looks to the future.
Author | : Theoretical Archaeology Group (England). Conference |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1984-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521255264 |
This book starts from the premise that methodology has always dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory.
Author | : Susana Soares Lopes |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2021-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789699231 |
This collection of studies on the cultural reconfigurations that occurred in western Europe between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE focuses on the evidence from the West of the Iberian Peninsula, and one on the South of England. They explore regional diversity and challenge grand narratives regarding Chalcolithic and Bronze Age communities.
Author | : Primitiva Bueno Ramírez |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Antiquities, Prehistoric |
ISBN | : 9781784912222 |
The diverse papers in this volume, published in honour of Professor de Balbin, cover a wide variety of the decorated caves which traditionally defined Palaeolithic art, as well as the open-air art of the period, a subject in which he has done pioneering work at Siega Verde and elsewhere.
Author | : Bisserka Gaydarska |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1009090666 |
This is an Element about some of the largest sites known in prehistoric Europe – sites so vast that they often remain undiscussed for lack of the theoretical or methodological tools required for their understanding. Here, the authors use a relational, comparative approach to identify not only what made megasites but also what made megasites so special and so large. They have selected a sample of megasites in each major period of prehistory – Neolithic, Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages – with a detailed examination of a single representative megasite for each period. The relational approach makes explicit comparisons between smaller, more 'normal' sites and the megasites using six criteria – scale, temporality, deposition / monumentality, formal open spaces, performance and congregational catchment. The authors argue that many of the largest European prehistoric megasites were congregational places.
Author | : Andy M. Jones |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178925924X |
Between 2018 and 2019, Cornwall Archaeological Unit undertook two projects at Mounts Bay, Penwith. The first involved the excavation of a Bronze Age barrow and the second, environmental augur core sampling in Marazion Marsh. Both sites lie within an area of coastal hinterland, which has been subject to incursions by rising sea levels. Since the Mesolithic, an area of approximately 1 kilometer in extent between the current shoreline and St Michaels Mount has been lost to gradually rising sea levels. With current climate change, this process is likely to occur at an increasing rate. Given their proximity, the opportunity was taken to draw the results from the two projects together along with all available existing environmental data from the area. For the first time, the results from all previous palaeoenvironmental projects in the Mounts Bay area have been brought together. Evidence for coastal change and sea level rise is discussed and a model for the drowning landscape presented. In addition to modeling the loss of land and describing the environment over time, social responses including the wider context of the Bronze Age barrow and later Bronze Age metalwork deposition in the Mounts Bay environs are considered. The effects of the gradual loss of land are discussed in terms of how change is perceived, its effects on community resilience, and the construction of social memory and narratives of place. The volume presents the potential for nationally significant environmental data to survive, which demonstrates the long-term effects of climate change and rising sea levels, and peoples responses to these over time.
Author | : Paul G. Bahn |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789699630 |
Like previous series entries, this volume covers rock art research and management all over the world over a 5-year period, in this case 2015-19. Contributions once again show the wide variety of approaches that have been taken in different parts of the world and reflect the expansion and diversification of perspectives and research questions.
Author | : Mr Richard Bradley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134708939 |
Professor Bradley discusses the numerous rock carvings made four to five thousand years ago, along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain.