The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place

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George 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
Index
372
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George Nash is Part-time Lecturer at the Centre for the Historic Environment, Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol. Christopher Chippindale is Curator for archaeology collections and Reader in Archaeology at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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