Signifying Place and Space: World Perspectives of Rock Art and Landscape (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International, 902)

edited by George Nash

ISBN 10: 1841710989 / ISBN 13: 9781841710983

Published by Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, 2000

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vii, 171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. It seems that, over recent years, the term landscape has received much discussion, albeit based on the mechanics of landscape. What has been omitted is the construction of landscape in terms of aesthetics, knowledge, emotion, interpretation and application. Although landscape is there, we control the imagination and cognitive construction of it. Fundamentally, landscape can be defined as a series of spaces that become places, and, within this volume (the product of a number of conference sessions run between 1997-99 by the Theoretical Archaeology Group), 17 contributors re-address the importance of space/place 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Signifying Place and Space: World Perspectives of Rock Art and Landscape (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) International, 902)
• Publisher: Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841710989
• ISBN 13: 9781841710983
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology

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Synopsis

A series of 18 papers taken from a number of sessions between 1997 and 1999 at the TAG conference in Bournemouth and Birmingham and the IRAC in Portugal. The over-riding theme of this collection of papers is the relationship between rock art and the landscape or place, with case studies taken from the Americas, Italy, Spain, England, Norway and Siberia. Contributors include: George Nash, Thomas Heyd, Andrea Arcà, Michael Eastham, Stephen Keates, Lynne Bevan, B.K. Swartz.

About the Author

George Nash is an Associate Professor at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT) in Portugal and Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol.