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Oxford J Archaeol 12 (2)
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Oxford J Archaeol 12 (2)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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12 (2)
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Year of Publication:
1993
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BIAB (The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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20 Jan 2002
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A field method for investigating the distribution of rock art
Richard Bradley
Jan Harding
Stephen J Rippon
Margaret Mathews
129 - 143
Recent studies of prehistoric rock art have analysed its position in the landscape and have suggested that it played an important role in a mobile pattern of settlement. But the distribution of petroglyphs is usually taken as given, with the result that it is difficult to assess the significance of this kind of patterning. It is argued that such evidence should be compared with the distribution of uncarved rocks across the surrounding area, and illustrate this procedure by two case studies from northern England. In these examples rock carvings were carefully sited at viewpoints and may have overlooked important routes across the landscape.
La vie sociale de l'art mobilier Paléolithique. Manipulation, transport, suspension des objets en os, bois de cervidés, ivoire
Francesco D'Errico
145 - 174
It has been suggested that some Palaeolithic objects show traces of long-term handling, suspension or transport. However, no criteria have been established for identifying such traces and differentiating them from other traces of natural or human origin. Handling, suspension, polishing with skin and transport of bone, antler and ivory objects have been reproduced experimentally and observed by optical microscopy and SEM. The width of striations seems to be the only criterion for differentiating handling, suspension and polishing. The transport of a single bone object in a leather bag produces striations of different dimensions to those produced by handling. The differentiation between traces of transport and those due to polishing with skin are more problematic. The transport of several bone objects in the same bag results in traces that differ according to the morphology and the hardness of the objects accompanying them. In particular, the pits generated by knocking against each other enable one to identify the nature of the other objects. Finally, analyses of bone objects known to have been subjected to long-term handling and archaeological objects dating from the Solutrean and Magdalenian cultures were compared with the experimental results.
Material culture and chronology of the Middle Neolithic of western France
Serge Cassen
197 - 208
An article updating the sequence of the various `cultural groups' making up the Middle Neolithic of the French west coast, and seting out a few definitions of the ceramic sets on which the periodisation is based, between Normandy and Gironde, from 5,000 BP to 4,600 BP (4,400--3,400~BC).
Rethinking the oppida
Greg Woolf
223 - 234
Challenges the usefulness of sites currently grouped under the heading oppida on the basis that they are too diverse in form, scale, potential function and chronology to form a useful category for analysis and comparison.