1st Edition
European Landscapes of Rock-Art
240 Pages
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Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rock-art - the ancient images which still scatter the rocky landscapes of Europe - is a singular kind of archaeological evidence. Fixed in place, it does not move about as artefacts as trade objects do. Enigmatic in its meaning, it uniquely offers a direct record of how prehistoric Europeans saw and envisioned their own worlds. European Landscapes of Rock-Art provides a number of case studies,... Read more
Chapter 1 Images of enculturing landscapes, George Nash, Christopher Chippindale; Chapter 2 The Red Army graffiti in the Reichstag, Berlin, Frederick Baker; Chapter 3 British prehistoric rock-art in the landscape, Stan Beckensall; Chapter 4 The rock-art landscape of the Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry, south-west Ireland, Avril Purcell; Chapter 5 Landscape representations on boulders and menhirs in the Valcamonica–Valtellina area, Alpine Italy, Angelo Fossati; Chapter 6 Alpine imagery, Alpine space, Alpine time; and prehistoric human experience, Michael Frachetti, Christopher Chippindale; Chapter 7 Rock-art and settlement, Per Ramqvist; Chapter 8 Marking the landscape, Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Chapter 9 The landscape brought within, George Nash; Chapter 10 Land of elks – sea of whales, Kalle Sognnes;
Biography
George Nash is a part-time Lecturer in European prehistory at the Centre of the Historic Environment, University of Bristol, and Senior Archaeologist with Border Archaeology.
Christopher Chippindale is a Curator in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
