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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818666003321

Titolo

Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags in European context / / [edited by] Paul Pettitt, Paul Bahn & Sergio Ripoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-191771-0

1-281-14568-8

9786611145682

0-19-153840-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Altri autori (Persone)

PettittPaul

BahnPaul G

RipollSergio

Disciplina

936.2

Soggetti

Paleolithic period - England - Creswell Crags

Cave paintings - England - Creswell Crags

Petroglyphs - England - Creswell Crags

Art, Prehistoric - England - Creswell Crags

Cave paintings - Europe

Petroglyphs - Europe

Creswell Crags (England) Antiquities

Europe Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The historical background to the discovery of cave art at Creswell Crags / Paul G. Bahn -- The palaeolithic rock art of Creswell Crags : prelude to a systematic study / Sergio Ripoll and Francisco J. Mun̄oz -- Verification of the age of the palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags / Alistair W. G. Pike, Mabs Gilmour, and Paul B. Pettitt -- 3D laser scanning at Church Hole, Creswell Crags / Alistair Carty -- Zoological perspectives on the late glacial / D. W. Yalden -- Cave archaeology and palaeontology in the Creswell region / Andrew T. Chamberlain -- The Stone Age archaeology of Church Hole, Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire / R. M. Jacobi -- Cultural context and form of some of



the Creswell images : an interpretative model / Paul B. Pettitt -- The engravings of Gouy : France's northernmost decorated cave / Yves Martin -- Palaeolithic art in isolation : the case of Sicily and Sardinia / Margherita Mussi -- The horse in the palaeolithic parietal art of the Quercy : outline of a stylistic study / Michel Lorblanchet -- A topographical approach to parietal figures : the monumental sculptures of the Roc-aux-Sorciers (Vienne, France) produced in daylight at the back of a rockshelter and on its ceiling / Geneviéve Pinçon -- Dating Magdalenian art in north Spain : the current situation / César González Sainz -- Rock art and the Côa Valley archaeological park : a case study in the preservation of Portugal's prehistoric Rupestral heritage / António Martinho Baptista and António Pedro Batarda Fernandes -- Rewriting the history books : the Magdalenian art of Creswell Crags / Claire Fisher and Rob Dinnis.

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensively illustrated book presents the Creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the context of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Britain, as well as a number of studies of Palaeolithic cave art in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.