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European landscapes of rock-art / edited by George Nash and Christopher Chippindale.
- Title
- European landscapes of rock-art / edited by George Nash and Christopher Chippindale.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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- Description
- xvi, 218 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
- Summary
- Taking the immovable nature of rock-art as being crucial to its creation and meaning, this fascinating volume addresses the importance of considering landscape in the interpretation of rock-art sites. Covering a range of European locations including Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia, Italy and Spain, this volume challenges the normal bounds of what is considered rock-art.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Images of enculturing landscapes : a European perspective / George Nash and Christopher Chippindale -- The Red Army graffiti in the Reichstag, Berlin : politics of rock-art in a contemporary European urban landscape / Frederick Baker -- British prehistoric rock-art in the landscape / Stan Beckensall -- The rock-art landscape of the Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry, south-west Ireland / Avril Purcell -- Landscape representations on boulders and menhirs in the Valcamonica-Valtellina area, Alpine Italy / Angelo Fossati -- Alpine imagery, alpine space, alpine time, and prehistoric human experience / Michael Frachetti and Christopher Chippindale.
- Rock-art and settlement : issues of spatial order in the prehistoric rock-art of Fenno-Scandinavia / Per Ramqvist -- Marking the landscape : Iberian post-Palaeolithic art, identities and the sacred / Margarita Díaz-Andreu -- The landscape brought within : a re-evaluation of the rock-painting site at Tumlehed, Torslanda, Göteborg, west Sweden / George Nash -- Land of elks, sea of whales : landscapes of the Stone Age rock-art in central Scandinavia / Kalle Sognnes.
- ISBN
- 0415257344
- 0415257352 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001031993
- OCLC
- 123150361
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library