Art as Metaphor

The Prehistoric Rock-Art of Britain

Edited by Aron Mazel Edited by George Nash Edited by Clive Waddington

Extent: 268 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: European Prehistory

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2007)

ISBN: 9781905739165

6.93 x 9.84 inches

Price: $60.00

In stock

Add to cart

Synopsis
Contents
Contributing Authors

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)

Edited by Aron Mazel

Edited by George Nash

Edited by Clive Waddington

Similar Books

Megalithic Societies: Old Questions, New Narratives
Edited by Gail M. Higginbottom Edited by Jadranka Verdonkschot Edited by Chris Scarre Edited by…

Teaching the Past
Prehistory and Archaeology in European Schools and National Curricula

Volume 6

edited by Michal Pawleta and Katalin Ernyey

Archaeological Excavations at Holme Hall Quarry, South Yorkshire
By (author) Francis M. Morris

Archaeological Stones and Their Macroscopic Identification
By (author) James A. Harrell

Aspects of the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago and Beyond
Proceedings from the Belfast Bronze Age Forum, 9–10 November 2013

Edited by Dirk Brandherm

Between Peak and Plain: Excavations on a Multiperiod Site at Mellor, Stockport, 1998-2009
Edited by Peter Arrowsmith

Bronzization: Essays in Bronze Age Archaeology
Edited by Heide W. Nørgaard Edited by Samantha S. Reiter

Daughters of the Sun: Small Human Images in Megalithic Iberia, 4th-3rd Millennium BC
By (author) Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez By (author) Jorge A. Soler Díaz

Eiszeit – Ice Age
Neue Ergebnisse zum Palaolithikum in Osterreich. New Results on the Palaeolithic in Austria

by Hannah Rohringer and Thomas Einwogerer

From the Hunt to the Cave
Neanderthal Subsistence at Kulna Cave during the Middle Palaeolithic Taubachian Phase: Analyses of the Faunal Remains from Level 11

Volume 4

by Elaine Turner and Petr Neruda

Gendering the Nordic Past
Dialogues Between Perspectives

Volume 4

Edited by Unn Pedersen Edited by Marianne Moen Edited by Lisbeth Skogstrand

Germania 101 (2023)
Anzeiger der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts

Volume 101

By (author) Gebruder Mann Verlag

Hoards from the European Bronze and Iron Ages
Current Research and New Perspectives

Volume 4

Edited by Marcin Maciejewski Edited by Janos Gabor Tarbay Edited by Kamil Nowak

Inheritance, Social Networks, Adaptation
Bronze and Early Iron Age Societies North of the Western Carpathians

Edited by Marcin Przybyla Edited by Karol Dziegielewski

Iron and the Iron Age
The Introduction of Iron in Europe and Western Asia

By (author) Christopher Pare

Offa’s Dyke Journal: Volume 6 for 2024
A Journal for Linear Monuments, Frontiers and Borderlands Research

Edited by Howard Williams

Pottery Technology at the Dawn of the Metal Age
Exploring Dynamics within Vinča Material Culture

By (author) Silvia Amicone

Power and Place in the Prehistoric Aegean and Beyond
Studies in Honor of James C. Wright

Volume 75

edited by Susan E. Allen, Robert Schon, and R. Angus K. Smith

Rituals, Memory, and Societal Dynamics
Contributions to Social Archaeology: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Sharon Zuckerman

Volume 5

Edited by Gideon Shelach-Lavi Edited by Joseph Maran Edited by Uri Davidovich

Spatial Analysis of Housing and Economic Complexes in the Upper Palaeolithic of Transbaikal (Southern Siberia)
By (author) Irina I. Razgildeeva Edited by Richard L. Bland Edited by Yaroslav V. Kuzmin

The Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in Jersey
By (author) Stuart Needham By (author) Catriona Gibson By (author) Peter Chowne

The Neolithic in Jersey
By (author) Alison Sheridan By (author) Emmanuel Ghesquière By (author) Cyril Marcigny Contributions by Hélène…

Too Much Writing, Too Few Scribes: Extra-Scribal Writing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean (1650-1100 BCE)
Edited by Cassandra M. Donnelly

Travels through Prehistoric Spain: A Guide
By (author) Jude Brown By (author) Gary Lock

Uist Unearthed
5000 Years of Prehistory and History Told through the Interactive Exploration of Five Archaeological Sites

By (author) Emily Gal By (author) Rebecca Rennell

Waterscapes Archaeology
Multi-Scalar Human-Environment Interactions in Coastal Lagoons

Edited by Alexandra Bivolaru Edited by Daniela Cottica Edited by Christophe Morhange

Bericht der Romisch-Germanischen Kommission 103 (2022)
Volume 103

By (author) Gebruder Mann Verlag

Des sépultures aux sociétés : Inégalités économiques et hiérarchies dans la plaine d’Alsace au Néolithique ancien et moyen (5 300 à 4 000 av. n. è.)
By (author) Laura Waldvogel

Kolner Jahrbuch
57 (2024)

Volume 57

edited by Romisch-Germanisches Museum /Archaologische Gesellschaft in Koln

La grotte ornée d’El Castillo
Un sanctuaire exceptionnel de la préhistoire

By (author) Marc Groenen By (author) Marie-Christine Groenen

Le marteau sonnait sur l’enclume
Typologie et fonction de l’outillage en pierre des premiers métallurgistes en France atlantique

By (author) Linda Boutoille

Siedlungs-, wirtschafts- und verkehrsgeschichtliche Denkmaler 2
by Guntram Gassmann, Tim Schonwetter, Andreas Haasis-Berner and Michael Hascher

Archaeological Excavations at Little Paxton Quarry Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire
2017 to 2021

By (author) James Fairclough By (author) Rob Atkins

Archaeological Mitigation at Magna Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire
June 2020 to March 2021

By (author) Stephen Morris

Archaeological Perspectives on Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes and Resource Management in Interior North Norway
Volume 1 and Volume 2 (set)

Edited by Marianne Skandfer Edited by Hans Peter Blankholm Edited by Bryan C. Hood

Archaeology of Body and Thought
From the Neolithic to the Beginning of the Middle Ages

By (author) Tomasz Gralak

Ayia Irini
Periods I-III: The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlements: Part 2: The Architecture and Stratigraphy

By (author) David E. Wilson By (author) Mary Eliot By (author) Whitney Powell-Cummer

Bronze Age Metallurgy
Production - Consumption - Exchange. Proceedings of the Workshop 'UK-Gesprache' at the Austrian Academy of Sciences: 20th Anniversary of the Archaeometallurgical Laboratory at VIAS, University of Vienna, May 2019

Volume 32

edited by Mario Gavranovic and Mathias Mehofer

Cave Art
A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe

By (author) Paul Bahn

Close to the Edge: Excavations of Five Cornish Coastal Barrows
By (author) Andy M. Jones

Human Societies Facing Climate Change: Volume 3
Determinisms in Prehistoric Societies: Climate Changes, Environments, Functional Constraints and Cultural Tradition

Editorial coordination by François Djindjian

Hunting and Fishing in the Neolithic and Eneolithic
Weapons, Techniques and Prey

Edited by Selena Vitezovic Edited by Christoforos Arampatzis

Art as Metaphor

Tell a Colleague/Librarian/Friend

Similar Books

Join the ISD Mailing List