Research Catalog

Title

Pictures in place : the figured landscapes of rock-art / edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Nash, George
• Chippindale, Christopher, 1951-

Description

xx, 400 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"A 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 people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Figured landscapes of rock-art : looking at pictures in place

Subject

• Rock paintings
• Landscapes
• Petroglyphs

Note

• A companion to: The archaeology of rock-art: Cambridge, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pictures in place : approaches to the figured landscapes of rock-art / Christopher Chippindale and George Nash -- Worlds within stone : the inner and outer rock-art landscapes of northern Australia and southern Africa / Paul S. C. Taçon and Sven Ouzman -- Rock-art, landscape, sacred places : attitudes in contemporary archaeological theory / Daniel Arsenault -- Locational analysis in rock-art studies / William D. Hyder -- From millimetre up to kilometre : a framework of space and of scale for reporting and studying rock-art in its landscape / Christopher Chippindale -- The canvas as the art : landscape analysis of the rock-art panel / James D. Keyser and George Poetschat -- The landscape setting of rock-painting sites in the Brandberg (Namibia) : infrastructure, Gestaltung, use and meaning / Tilman Lenssen-Erz -- Rock-art and the experienced landscape : the emergence of late Holocene symbolism in north-east Australia / Bruno David -- Linkage between rock-art and landscape in Aboriginal Australia / Josephine Flood -- Places of power : the placement of Dinwoody petroglyphs across the Wyoming landscape / Lawrence Loendorf --
• Friends in low places : rock-art and landscape on the Modoc Plateau / David S. Whitley, Johannes H.N. Loubser and Don Hann -- Dangerous ground : a critique of landscape in rock-art studies / Benjamin W. Smith and Geoffrey Blundell -- Landscapes in rock-art : rock-carving and ritual in the old European North / Knut Helskog -- 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 -- The topographic engravings of Alpine rock-art : fields, settlements and agricultural landscapes / Andrea Arcà -- Walking through landscape : a photographic essay of the Campo Lameiro valley, Galicia, north-western Spain / George Nash, Lindsey Nash and Christopher Chippindale.

ISBN

• 0521818796 (hbk.)
• 0521524245 (pbk.)

OCLC

55015472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library