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The archaeology of semiotics and the social order of things

Title
The archaeology of semiotics and the social order of things / edited by George Nash, George Children.
Publication
Oxford : Archaeopress, ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Nash, George.
  • Children, George (George C.)
Description
iv, 204 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.
Series Statement
BAR international series ; 1833
Uniform Title
BAR international series ; 1833.
Subject
  • Semiotics and archaeology
  • Archaeology > Philosophy
  • Social archaeology
  • Landscape archaeology
  • Archäologie
  • Semiotik
  • Landschaft
  • Vor- und Frühgeschichte
  • Sozialarchäologie
  • Art, Prehistoric
  • Europa
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The archaeology of semiotics and the social order of things / George Nash & George Chldren -- Rock-art and material culture: stone age symbol systems in central Norway / K.J. Sognnes -- The association of prehistoric rock-art and rock selection with acoustically significant landscape locations / Paul Devereux -- Following Arianna's thread : symbolic figures at female rock art sites at Naquane and In Valle, Valcamonica, Italy / Angelo Fossati -- Seeking place : living on and learning from the cultural landscape / Herman E. Bender -- Stone thresholds : stone arrangements as signposts or shrines / Matthew Kelleher -- Prehistoric mandalas : the semiosis of landscape and the emergence of stratified society in the south-eastern European Chalcolithic / Dragos Gheorghiu -- Places for the living, places for the dead and places in between : hillforts and the semiotics of the iron age landscape in central Slovenia / Phil Mason -- A hunter's perspective of rock-art : the rock-art paintings in central Norway / May-Tove Smieth -- Landscape, semiotics and rock-art in Ku-Ring-Gai Chase / John Clegg -- Accenting the landscape : interpreting the Oley Hills site / Norman E. Muller -- A new proposal for the chronology of Atlantic rock art in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) / Manuel Santos Estévez -- Sacred landscapes, sacred seasons : a Jungian ecopsychological perspective / D.L. Merritt -- The experience of rock-art; How the same motif can be found in different landscapes / Eva Skeie -- Encoding a grammar within a Neolithic landscape : The distribution of burial moments along Strumble Head, south-west Wales / George Nash -- Interpreting Bashō's "Narrow Road to the Interior" as a journey to the depths of being / Thomas Heyd.
ISBN
  • 9781407303178
  • 1407303171
LCCN
2008472335
OCLC
  • ocn262718396
  • 262718396
  • SCSB-1494562
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library