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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828766003321

Titolo

Representations and communications [[electronic resource] ] : creating an archaeological matrix of late prehistoric rock art / / edited by Åsa C. Fredell, Kristian Kristiansen and Felipe Criado Boado

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, U.K. ; ; Oakville, Conn., : Oxbow Books, c2010

ISBN

1-84217-797-4

1-299-48515-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

SARA ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

FredellÅsa

KristiansenKristian <1948->

Criado BoadoFelipe

Disciplina

709.01/130936

Soggetti

Petroglyphs - Europe

Petroglyphs - Sweden

Petroglyphs - Spain - Galicia (Region)

Social archaeology - Europe

Social archaeology - Sweden

Social archaeology - Spain - Galicia (Region)

Excavations (Archaeology) - Sweden

Excavations (Archaeology) - Spain - Galicia (Region)

Bronze Age - Europe

Iron Age - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

A life aquatic? : looking at the relationships between settlements, rock art, and sea levels in the Himmelstalund region of eastern Sweden / Per Nilsson -- Rock art and archaeological excavations in Campo Lameiro, Galicia : a new chronological proposal for the Atlantic rock art / Manuel Santos Estévez and Yolanda Seoane Veiga -- Elevated rock art : maritime images and situations / Johan Ling -- A mo(ve)ment in time? : a comparative study of a rock picture theme in Galicia and Bohuslän / Åsa C. Fredell -- Bodily attributes and semantic expressions : knees in rock art and Indo-European symbolism / Åsa C. Fredell And Marco V.



García Quintela -- Rock art and religion : the sun journey in Indo-European mythology and Bronze Age rock art / Kristian Kristiansen -- To excavate images : some results from the Tanum Rock Art Project, 1997-2004 / Lasse Bengtsson -- Perspectives in European rock art : the archaeology of glance / Felipe Criado Boado -- The spaces of representation and the domestication of landscape in rock art societies / Manuel Santos Estévez.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, which is the outcome of the four-year long collaboration project SARA (Scandinavian and Atlantic Rock Art) between the archaeology department at University of Gothenburg and the Laboratory of Heritage of Spanish National Research Council, nine papers summarize new excavation and survey results, advanced studies of iconography and intriguing landscape studies. It addresses topics such as human activities in the vicinity and surroundings of rock-art panels, movement and communication, ritual and symbolism, and finally representations and constructions of landscapes. The book...