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Nash, G., ed. (2000).
Signifying place and space:
. Oxford: Archaeopress.
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Title:
Signifying place and space:
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Subtitle:
world perspectives of rock art and landscape
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Series:
British Archaeological Reports
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Volume:
S902
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Number of Pages:
171
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Abstract:
Volume arising from a number of conference sessions run between 1997-99 by the Theoretical Archaeology Group, in which seventeen contributors re-address the importance of space/place and the definition of landscape as a series of `spaces' that become `places', and suggest both may be considered as part of an archaeological assemblage. Some chapters also attempt to place rock art into a narrative, placing its historical value into a prehistoric context. Papers include
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Editor:
George Nash
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Issue Editor:
George Nash
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Archaeopress
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Year of Publication:
2000
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ISBN:
1 84171 098 9
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Is Portmanteau: 1
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.archaeopress.com/defaultBar.asp
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26 Jan 2006
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Abstract
Rock art: art status, aesthetic appreciation, and contemporary significance
Thomas Heyd
17 - 24
the author considers the question of the art status of rock art, before discussing some of the features of importance in its aesthetic appreciation and proposing that it provides a perspective on the continuity of art-making, on the makers of rock art, and on the lands in which it is placed (Australian examples)
Archaeo-anthropological research for rock art and context in the landscape
Dario Seglie
25 - 28
the author considers the indication of a possible pattern for rock art, and its use as a working hypothesis in order to quantify the interrelation among the global data. The characterisation by a functional and symbolic role of art at this level, dependent on social and religious structure, economic organisation and the environment, in a particular landscape, is mentioned. The author presents data and makes a number of considerations on the topic of rock art
Mapping a cultural boundary on Exmoor, England: landscape symbolism and ritual continuity
George Nash
65 - 70
the author discusses the wheeled-cross carving on the Culbone Stone, located to the west of Porlock in Somerset, including the question of whether it dates to the Bronze Age of medieval period, its possible Christianization, its position and archaeological context, and the possible symbolism of its relationship with Bronze Age monuments in its vicinity
Landforms and the interpretation of scan procedures embedded in Palaeolithic parietal images
Michael Eastham
71 - 81
the author argues that the instructions embedded in the drawings and their positioning in certain Upper Palaeolithic parietal image sites give substance to the hypothesis that the sites are maps, and do not permit refutation of the hypothesis that the sites are maps of important adjacent terrain (continental European data)
Some minor caveats about the place of rock art in the landscape
Robert G Bednarik
129 - 130
the author discusses various problems to be considered in studying the relationship between rock art and its surrounding landscape