1st Edition
Rock Art and the Wild Mind Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe
0/ ARCHAIC MEETINGS – A PROLOGUE; 1/ OBJECT AND OBJECTIVES; 2 / THE SETTING; 3/ NORTHERN EUROPEAN HUNTERS’ ROCK ART – PRODUCTS OF THE ‘WILD MIND’ IN ACTION; 4 / THE ‘KEY MOTEME’ AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS: VISUAL PATHS OF A LATE MESOLITHIC ANALOGICAL LOGIC; 5 / MEDIATING NATURE AND CULTURE OR, BODY DESIGN IN THE EASTERN NORWEGIAN GROUP OF HUNTERS’ ROCK ART; 6 / DESIGN PATTERNS AS AN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM OF REFERENCES; 7 / APPROACHING ROCK ART THROUGH ANIMISM AND TOTEMISM; 8/ "MEASURING" THE TOTEMIC IMPACT; 9/ THE MAPPING OF DESIGN PATTERNS OR, FRAGMENTS OF A TOTEMIC GEOGRAPHY; 10/ THE LATE MESOLITHIC ’LINES OF CONTACT’; 11 / LATE MESOLITHIC SEXE IN ROCK ART; 12 / ANIMISM AND TOTEMISM THROUGH TIME, AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SYMBOLIC GIFT
Biography
Ingrid Fuglestvedt is a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
'Organised into 12 well-crafted chapters, the book is unlike many other studies of rock art in that it delves deep into the mindset of the artist and the community he or she would have served... The book's theoretical basis provides the reader with numerous discussion points, and will be of use to scholars researching prehistoric hunter-fishergatherer archaeology in northern Europe (as well as prehistoric rock art, of course).'
George Nash, Current World Archaeology, 2018
"The methodologies of research displayed in this book, both on theoretical and practical levels, are of tremendous inspiration for all the experts in the field; thanks to this research, there are now increased possibilities to find new ‘meanings’ for the art of past human groups, if investigated with the scrupulousness, deep attention and philological cure that Prof. Fuglestvedt demonstrated in her volume."
Gianpiero Di Maida, Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes, 2019
