Visualising the Neolithic

Visualising the Neolithic

by Andrew Cochrane and Andrew Meirion Jones
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 30/09/2012

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Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume addresses this lacuna and discusses visual expression across Neolithic Europe. The papers in this volume result from a meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group on the topic of 'Neolithic visual culture' at the British Museum in November 2010. The intention of the meeting was to assess new studies of rock art from across Britain and Ireland, and to compare these with studies of Neolithic visuality from continental Europe. Here, the scope of the original meeting is widened, and includes further papers to provide a broader context and more coherent analysis of prehistoric expressionism. The volume is organised so that the rock art and passage tomb art traditions of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland are compared for the first time to the rock art traditions of Northern and Southern Europe, with the mortuary costumes and figurines of South-eastern Europe.

ISBN:
9781842178676
9781842178676
Category:
Art of indigenous peoples
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-09-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxbow Books

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