The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art
The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art
$143.00
USDA 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.
- Packed with illustrations providing a visual as well as literal approach
- Comparative analysis of rock-art from different areas of the globe
- An exceptional collection of essays by world-class scholars
Reviews & endorsements
"These superb articles cover contemporary approaches to the study of rock art. [A]ll serious students of rock art will benefit from reading this volume. Essential." T.A. Foor, University of Montana, CHOICE
Product details
May 2004Hardback
9780521818797
422 pages
244 × 170 × 24 mm
0.87kg
192 b/w illus. 18 maps 25 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Pictures in place: approaches to the figured landscapes of rock-art Christopher Chippindale and George Nash
- Part I. Principles of Landscape and Rock-Art in Practice:
- 2. Worlds within stone: the inner and outer rock-art landscapes of northern Australia and southern Africa Paul S. C. Taçon and Sven Ouzman
- 3. Rock-art, landscape, sacred places: attitudes in contemporary archaeological theory Daniel Arsenault
- 4. Locational analysis in rock-art studies William D. Hyder
- 5. From millimetre up to kilometre: a framework of space and of scale for reporting and studying rock-art in its landscape Christopher Chippindale
- 6. The canvas as the art: landscape-analysis of the rock-art panel James D. Keyser and George Poetschat
- 7. The landscape setting of rock-painting sites in the Brandberg (Namibia): infrastructure, Gestaltung, use and meaning Tilman Lenssen-Erz
- Part II. Informed Methods: Opportunities and Applications:
- 8. Rock-art and the experienced landscape: the emergence of late-Holocene symbolism in north-east Australia Bruno David
- 9. Linkage between rock-art and landscape in Aboriginal Australia Josephine Flood
- 10. Places of power: the placement of Dinwoody petroglyphs across the Wyoming landscape Lawrence Loendorf
- 11. Friends in low places: rock-art and landscape on the Modoc Plateau David S. Whitley, Johannes H. N. Loubser and Don Hann
- 12. Dangerous ground: a critique of landscape in rock-art studies Benjamin W. Smith and Geoffrey Blundell
- Part III. Formal Methods: Opportunities and Applications:
- 13. Landscapes in rock-art: rock-carving and ritual in the old European North Knut Helskog
- 14. From natural settings to spiritual places in the Algonkian sacred landscape: an archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic analysis of Canadian Shield rock-art sites Daniel Arsenault
- 15. The topographic engravings of Alpine rock-art: fields, settlements and agricultural landscapes Andrea ArcÃ
- Part IV. Pictures of Pictures:
- 16. Walking through landscape: a photographic essay of the Campo Lameiro Valley, Galicia, north-western Spain George Nash, Lindsey Nash and Christopher Chippindale.
