The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in PlaceGeorge Nash, Christopher Chippindale Cambridge University Press, 2004 - 400 pages A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces. |
Contents
1 | 1 |
Certainty in place | 7 |
1 | 8 |
Informed methods and formal methods in studying | 14 |
Formal methods and the landscape of rockart | 20 |
a Gestaltung and human behaviour 140 | 27 |
Part | 37 |
MenanTol Cornwall England | 40 |
landscape Animals in nature | 166 |
emergent social formations | 173 |
Rattlesnake Shelter 122 | 182 |
style | 185 |
6 | 187 |
Criteria for choice of sites | 194 |
laya | 198 |
Petroglyphs and pictographs in central Part Three | 201 |
Aboriginal ethnography stories of the Mimi | 45 |
The concepts of sacred space and sacred place | 76 |
4 | 79 |
Locational analysis in rockart | 85 |
5 | 89 |
The topographic environment | 91 |
4 | 92 |
7 | 98 |
3 | 108 |
5 | 114 |
3 | 122 |
1 | 132 |
4 | 138 |
rockcarving | 213 |
Jerome | 246 |
Sources | 252 |
and Don Hann Time | 271 |
Rockart of the Modoc Plateau 219 | 277 |
Shamanic vision questing 224 Landscapes in the carvings | 284 |
description | 292 |
San art in the landscape 255 The context of shamanism and the creation of sacred | 300 |
The topographic engravings of Alpine | 318 |
Chronology | 327 |
Part Four | 351 |
372 | |
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