Art as Metaphor
The Prehistoric Rock-Art of Britain
Edited by Aron Mazel Edited by George Nash Edited by Clive Waddington
Paperback (Published)
(December 2007)
ISBN: 9781905739165
6.97 x 9.84 inches
Price: $60.00
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Enigmatic, esoteric and fascinating, the rock-art of the British Isles has for a long time been a well-kept secret. This volume brings together a carefully selected collection of papers reporting on recent discoveries and regional surveys covering British prehistoric rock-art from over 10,000 years ago.
Enigmatic, esoteric and fascinating, the rock-art of the British Isles has for a long time been a well-kept secret. However, over the last few decades hundreds of new rock art panels have been discovered and several regional surveys have been carried out. This volume brings together a carefully selected collection of papers that cover British prehistoric rock-art from over 10000 years ago.
Foreword (Christopher Chippindale)
INTRODUCTION: Chapter 1: A coming of age (Aron Mazel, George Nash and Clive Waddington)
PERIOD STUDIES: Chapter 2: Rock-art and art mobilier of the British Upper Palaeolithic (Paul Pettitt and Paul Bahn)
Chapter 3: Possible Mesolithic cave art in southern England (Graham Mullan & Linda Wilson)
Chapter 4: Neolithic rock-art in the British Isles: retrospect and prospect (Clive Waddington)
Chapter 5: Pictish symbol stones: caught between prehistory and history (Meggen Gondek)
REGIONAL AND THEMATIC STUDIES: Chapter 6: Rock-art in Cleveland and north-east Yorkshire: contexts and chronology (Blaise Vyner)
Chapter 7: Exploring links between cupmarks and cairnfields (Philip Deakin)
Chapter 8: Light at the end of the tunnel: the way megalithic art was viewed and experienced (George Nash)
Chapter 9: Rock-art and rough outs: exploring the sacred and social dimensions of prehistoric carvings at Copt Howe, Cumbria (Kate E. Sharpe)
Chapter 10: A scattering of images: the rock-art of southern Britain (George Nash)
Chapter 11: How the study of rock-art began and developed (Stan Beckensall)
Chapter 12: On the fells and beyond: exploring aspects of Northumberland rock-art (Aron D. Mazel), Foreword (Christopher Chippindale) ;
INTRODUCTION PERIOD STUDIES Chapter 3: Possible Mesolithic cave art in southern England (Graham Mullan & Linda Wilson) ;
Chapter 4: Neolithic rock-art in the British Isles: retrospect and prospect (Clive Waddington) ;
Chapter 5: Pictish symbol stones: caught between prehistory and history (Meggen Gondek) ;
REGIONAL AND THEMATIC STUDIES Chapter 7: Exploring links between cupmarks and cairnfields (Philip Deakin) ;
Chapter 8: Light at the end of the tunnel: the way megalithic art was viewed and experienced (George Nash) ;
Chapter 9: Rock-art and rough outs: exploring the sacred and social dimensions of prehistoric carvings at Copt Howe, Cumbria (Kate E. Sharpe) ;
Chapter 10: A scattering of images: the rock-art of southern Britain (George Nash) ;
Chapter 11: How the study of rock-art began and developed (Stan Beckensall) ;
Chapter 12: On the fells and beyond: exploring aspects of Northumberland rock-art (Aron D. Mazel)
Aron Mazel is a Reader of Heritage Studies at Newcastle University (UK) and a Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Aron has published on a range of topics, including the management and interpretation of tangible and intangible heritage; museum and archaeological histories; the construction of the San hunter-gatherer past in the Thukela basin (South Africa) based on 15 rock shelter excavations; and rock art in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg (South Africa) and Northumberland (UK). George Nash is an Associate Professor at the Geosciences Centre, IPT (u. ID73 – FCT), Portugal. Dr Nash is a specialist in rock art, and gained his doctorate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, researching hunter-fisher-gatherer rock art along coastal Norway and Levantine Spain. Between 1998 and 2016, Dr Nash lectured parttime within the University of Bristol. He has undertaken research in many parts of the world, and has published over 250 papers and edited, co-edited and written 38 books.
- Edited by Aron Mazel
- Edited by George Nash
- Edited by Clive Waddington
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