| Title: |
Les représentations humaines du Néolithique à l'Age du Fer: Actes du 115e congrès national des sociétés savantes |
| Number of Pages: |
311 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Monograph
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| Abstract: |
Proceedings of a 1990 conference in Avignon containing 23 papers, mainly on France or Iberia, including two on Britain and Ireland. In `Cumulative Celticity and the human face in insular pre-Roman Iron Age art' (205--18) </ze> John Vincent Stanley Megaw & </ze> Madeline Ruth Megaw consider the discussion of when and whence Celts arrived in the British Isles and the differing interpretations of linguistic evidence. They believe changes in the visual symbolic system of art require impulses as great as those of language transformation. The early treatment of the human face in the La Tène art of the British Isles is overwhelmingly of the elusive `Cheshire-cat' type and remains so in Ireland until the coming of Christianity. More definite faces are generally found on late material in south-eastern England, such as the buckets from the Aylesford-Swarling group or the Welwyn graves, where the concept and context of the human head is sufficiently different to argue major change, whether of belief system or peoples. Barry </ze> Raftery discusses Irish Iron Age sculptured stones, human heads and wooden sculptures in `La statuaire en bois et en pierre de l'Age du Fer irlandais' (253--64). Some of the stones bear insular La Tène motifs, but links with Armorican sculptures are possible. The cultural context of the human heads is more difficult to establish and it is uncertain whether contacts were with Britain or the continent. Among wooden sculptures are two human figures and a curious object, dated dendrochronologically to the second century BC, which could have served a ritual purpose. |
| Issue Editor: |
Alain-René Duval
Jacques Briard
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| Year of Publication: |
1993
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| ISBN: |
2 7355 0269 8 |
| Locations: |
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Britain |
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Welwyn |
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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IRON AGE
(Historic England Periods)
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IRON AGE
(Historic England Periods)
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| Second Century Bc (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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ROMAN
(Historic England Periods)
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| Note: |
Editorial Expansion:
Human representations from the Neolithic to the Iron Age: proceedings of the 115th national congress of learned societies
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
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| Created Date: |
21 Jan 2002 |
