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Objects of the past in the past : investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts / / edited by Matthew G. Knight, Dot Boughton and Rachel E. Wilkinson
Objects of the past in the past : investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts / / edited by Matthew G. Knight, Dot Boughton and Rachel E. Wilkinson
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (77 fig., 11 tables)
Disciplina 930.1
Soggetto topico Archaeology - Great Britain
Antiquities - Interpretive programs - History
Historiography - Great Britain
ISBN 1-78969-249-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 -- Objects of the Past in the Past -- Figure 1.1: The Hammer of St Martin (image courtesy of Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht / Ruben de Heer) -- Figure 1.2: Two Late Bronze Age amber beads used as charms against blindness by the Macdonalds of Glencoe, Scotland, in the 19th century (NMS Acc. Nos H.NO 4-5). © National Museums Scotland. -- Figure 1.3: A prehistoric flint arrowhead mounted in a gold pendant to be worn as an amulet (NMS Acc. No. H.NO 75). © National Museums Scotland. -- Chapter 2 -- Doubtful associations? Assessing Bronze Age 'multi-period' hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales -- Matthew G. Knight -- Figure 2.1: Frequency of different out-of-time object types found in Late Bronze Age multi-period hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales. -- Figure 2.2: A map of Britain and Ireland showing the distribution of the case studies described in this paper (numbers correlate with Table 1 and the appendix). Case studies are plotted according to the likelihood of truly representing an out-of-time depo -- Figure 2.3: The Callander hoard. Illustration: Alan Braby © National Museums Scotland -- Figure 2.4: The Kincardine hoard. Photo: M. Knight, courtesy of the Highland Folk Museum -- Figure 2.5: The Corsbie Moss spearhead and sword. Photo: M. Knight © National Museums Scotland -- Figure 2.6: A selection of worn and fragmentary blades from Duddingston Loch. The Middle Bronze Age rapier is illustrated bottom right. Illustration: Marion O'Neil © National Museums Scotland -- Figure 2.7: The expected typological durations of the objects in the Kincardine and Callander hoards (following information in Burgess and Gerloff 1981 -- Davis 2012 -- Schmidt and Burgess 1981) -- Chapter 3 -- Connecting with the past: Earliest Iron Age multi-period hoards in Wessex.
Dot Boughton -- Figure 3.1: Melksham Hoard (Wiltshire). Image used with kind permission of Devizes Museum. -- Figure 3.2: Stockbury Hoard (Kent). Treasure Number 2011T110. Image courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. -- Figure 3.3: Distribution of Earliest Iron Age socketed axeheads in South England, South West England and South Wales. Key: 1 = Hindon, Wiltshire (WILT-9439A7) -- 2 = Hindon II, Wiltshire (WILT-A74356) -- 3 = Tisbury, Wiltshire (WILT-0594F7) -- 4 = Vale of War -- Figure 3.4: Examples of Portland-type axes from the Portland Hoard (Dorset). Image used with kind permission of The Salisbury Museum (Pitt Rivers Collection). -- Figure 3.5: Top (left to right): socketed axeheads from Salisbury Hoard (1, 2), socketed axehead from Blandford Hoard (3). Bottom: socketed gouges from Blandford Hoard, (Dorset). Illustration: D. Boughton. -- Figure 3.6: The Vale of Wardour Hoard (Wiltshire). Treasure Number 2011T684. Image used with kind permission of The Salisbury Museum. -- Figure 3.7: Part of Figheldean Down Hoard (Wiltshire). Image used with kind permission of The Salisbury Museum. -- Figure 3.8: Comparison of two socketed axeheads from the Salisbury Hoard (left) and Figheldean Down Hoard (right), (Wiltshire). Illustration: D. Boughton. -- Figure 3.9: Socketed axehead from Rookley Farm, Stockbridge (Hampshire). Portable Antiquities Number: HAMP1871. Image courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. -- Figure 3.10: Danebury Hoard (Hampshire). Andover Museum (Hampshire Cultural Trust). -- Figure 3.11: Razors, socketed leather-working knives and chape from Salisbury Hoard. Illustration: D. Boughton. -- Figure 3.12: One of over five hundred socketed axehead of Portland type from Langton Matravers Hoard (Dorset). Image used with kind permission of Dorset County Museum, Dorchester.
Chapter 4 -- The Devil or the Divine? Supernatural objects and multi-period hoards in later prehistory -- Alex Davies -- Figure 4.1: Part of the Minster hoard, showing a palstave belonging to the Penard stage, and other later objects of the Ewart Park stage (adapted from Turner 2010: Illustrations 108, 113 and 115) Reproduced with kind permission of BAR Publishing www.barpu -- Figure 4.2: Six axes from the Crooksbury Hill hoard (Anon 1854, except palstave on right is from Needham 1980: fig. 5.4). Courtesy of Surrey Archaeological Society -- Figure 4.3: Part of the Shoebury 1 hoard, showing a palstave belonging to the Taunton stage, a large decorated bracelet from the Alps, and a selection of Ewart Park objects (adapted from Smith 1958). © Trustees of the British Museum -- Figure 4.4: Earliest and Early Iron Age exotic objects from the continent. -- Chapter 5 -- Iron Age antiques: Assessing the functions of old objects in Britain from 400 BC to AD 100 -- Helen Chittock -- Figure 5.1: A sketch of RF40 from the South Cave Hoard, and a close-up of its replacement chape. H. Chittock, with kind permission from David Marchant, Beverley Treasure House. -- Figure 5.2: The Grotesque Torc, Snettisham (British Museum 1991,0407.37) ©Trustees of the British Museum, with kind permission. -- Figure 5.3: An x-ray of the Kirkburn sword, showing repair to its front plate (British Museum, 1987,0404.2) ©Trustees of the British Museum, with kind permission. -- Figure 5.4: The Grimthorpe shield (British Museum 1876,0208.1) ©Trustees of the British Museum, with kind permission. -- Figure 5.5: Sketches showing the varied patterns observed on the fittings of the Grimthorpe Shield. Top left: central boss. Top right: small disc. Bottom: border of crescentic plaque. See Figure 5.4 for scale. Illustration: H. Chittock. -- Chapter 6 -- The Antique Antique? -- Mark Lewis.
Figure 6.1: The Museum of Antiquities, Caerleon, 1850, by James Flewitt Mullock (1818-1892). By permission of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales. TIRLUN CYMRU Monmouthshire Top. B10/1 B024 -- Figure 6.2: (a) The tombstone of Tadia Vallaunius from Caerleon with Latin capital letters cut at Caerleon during the second or third centuries AD (AC-NMW Acc. No. 31.78, RIB I 369). (b) Silver finger ring bezel from the Caerleon Fortress Baths (AC-NMW Ac -- Figure 6.3: (a) and (b) Glass and nicolo paste ring settings imitating gem stones from the Caerleon Fortress Baths excavations (AC-NMW Acc. No. 81.79H/4.52 (3a) and 81.79H/4.34 (3b)). (c) and (d) Contemporary forgeries from the Llanvaches Coin Hoard (AC-N -- Figure 6.4: Caerleon Prysg Field Nereid gem and iron finger ring (AC-NMW Acc. No. 32.60/4. (stolen)). © Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.5: Glass counters from the Praetorium deposit (AC-NMW Acc. No. 31.78, Caerleon Number 6.1). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.6: Repurposed Roman ceramic antefixa from Caerleon (AC-NMW Acc. Nos left to right (a): 63.228B F37b, (b): 81.79H/55.1 and (c): 56.214B F47 73). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.7: The Caerleon 'Roman Gates' excavation 'Celtic Horse stud' (AC-NMW Acc. No. 88.165H/71). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.8: (a) An epoxy resin cast from a pewter replica of the Caerleon 'Roman Gates' genius togatus figurine made at the time of its discovery and owned by Graham Oxlade. (b) The replica figure during mould making for making the epoxy resin replica sho -- Figure 6.9: Published illustration and photograph of geological fossils from excavations at (a) Roman Caerleon and (b) Roman Usk (AC-NMW Acc. Nos (a): 81.79H/44.23 -- (b): 82.11H). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Chapter 7.
Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves -- Chapter 7 -- Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves -- Brian Costello and Howard Williams -- Figure 7.1: Map of east Kent showing the Mill Hill, Deal, and Saltwood Tunnel, Saltwood, cemeteries in relation to the overall distribution of known early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries (Base map of historic coastline re-drawn after Brookes and Harrington (2010: -- Figure 7.2: Schematic annotated grave-plans of the four early Anglo-Saxon inhumation graves that form the focus of this study. Top-left: grave 61, Mill Hill, Deal (after Parfitt and Brugmann 1997: 201) -- top-right: grave 102, Mill Hill, Deal (after Parfitt -- Chapter 8 -- Medieval engagements with the material past: some evidence from European coin hoards, AD c. 1000-1500 -- Murray Andrews -- Figure 8.1: Pierced gold aureus of Numerian (RIC V Carus 443), issued in AD 283-284, from the late fourteenth-century Erfurt hoard (Weissenborn 1878: 211) -- Figure 8.2: Impression of a medieval silver signet ring, incorporating a Roman carnelian intaglio, from the Evesham Abbey Gardens hoard (Cuming 1876: 116) -- Chapter 9 -- Deep Time in the ruins of a Tudor Palace? - Fossils from the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich -- Peter J. Leeming -- Figure 9.1: A variety of fossil belemnites, showing the ends of two larger examples (A and B) -- the cross section of one specimen showing the concentric growth-rings and the siphuncle (C) -- a specimen where the siphuncle is not preserved -- the join of the gu -- Figure 9.2: A fossil belemnite in cross section in a slab of polished Jura Limestone now used decoratively in the Arndale Centre, Manchester. This specimen has the usual hard bullet-like rostrum surviving, but also has the rarer survival of the phragmocon -- Figure 9.3: (a) Belemnite from Greenwich, BM Acc. No. 1954,1102.60.
(b) Piece of stone with cast of fossil, BM Acc. No. 1954,1102.59. Sketches by the author.
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Objects of the past in the past : investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts / / edited by Matthew G. Knight, Dot Boughton and Rachel E. Wilkinson
Objects of the past in the past : investigating the significance of earlier artefacts in later contexts / / edited by Matthew G. Knight, Dot Boughton and Rachel E. Wilkinson
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (77 fig., 11 tables)
Disciplina 930.1
Soggetto topico Archaeology - Great Britain
Antiquities - Interpretive programs - History
Historiography - Great Britain
ISBN 1-78969-249-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 -- Objects of the Past in the Past -- Figure 1.1: The Hammer of St Martin (image courtesy of Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht / Ruben de Heer) -- Figure 1.2: Two Late Bronze Age amber beads used as charms against blindness by the Macdonalds of Glencoe, Scotland, in the 19th century (NMS Acc. Nos H.NO 4-5). © National Museums Scotland. -- Figure 1.3: A prehistoric flint arrowhead mounted in a gold pendant to be worn as an amulet (NMS Acc. No. H.NO 75). © National Museums Scotland. -- Chapter 2 -- Doubtful associations? Assessing Bronze Age 'multi-period' hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales -- Matthew G. Knight -- Figure 2.1: Frequency of different out-of-time object types found in Late Bronze Age multi-period hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales. -- Figure 2.2: A map of Britain and Ireland showing the distribution of the case studies described in this paper (numbers correlate with Table 1 and the appendix). Case studies are plotted according to the likelihood of truly representing an out-of-time depo -- Figure 2.3: The Callander hoard. Illustration: Alan Braby © National Museums Scotland -- Figure 2.4: The Kincardine hoard. Photo: M. Knight, courtesy of the Highland Folk Museum -- Figure 2.5: The Corsbie Moss spearhead and sword. Photo: M. Knight © National Museums Scotland -- Figure 2.6: A selection of worn and fragmentary blades from Duddingston Loch. The Middle Bronze Age rapier is illustrated bottom right. Illustration: Marion O'Neil © National Museums Scotland -- Figure 2.7: The expected typological durations of the objects in the Kincardine and Callander hoards (following information in Burgess and Gerloff 1981 -- Davis 2012 -- Schmidt and Burgess 1981) -- Chapter 3 -- Connecting with the past: Earliest Iron Age multi-period hoards in Wessex.
Dot Boughton -- Figure 3.1: Melksham Hoard (Wiltshire). Image used with kind permission of Devizes Museum. -- Figure 3.2: Stockbury Hoard (Kent). Treasure Number 2011T110. Image courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. -- Figure 3.3: Distribution of Earliest Iron Age socketed axeheads in South England, South West England and South Wales. Key: 1 = Hindon, Wiltshire (WILT-9439A7) -- 2 = Hindon II, Wiltshire (WILT-A74356) -- 3 = Tisbury, Wiltshire (WILT-0594F7) -- 4 = Vale of War -- Figure 3.4: Examples of Portland-type axes from the Portland Hoard (Dorset). Image used with kind permission of The Salisbury Museum (Pitt Rivers Collection). -- Figure 3.5: Top (left to right): socketed axeheads from Salisbury Hoard (1, 2), socketed axehead from Blandford Hoard (3). Bottom: socketed gouges from Blandford Hoard, (Dorset). Illustration: D. Boughton. -- Figure 3.6: The Vale of Wardour Hoard (Wiltshire). Treasure Number 2011T684. Image used with kind permission of The Salisbury Museum. -- Figure 3.7: Part of Figheldean Down Hoard (Wiltshire). Image used with kind permission of The Salisbury Museum. -- Figure 3.8: Comparison of two socketed axeheads from the Salisbury Hoard (left) and Figheldean Down Hoard (right), (Wiltshire). Illustration: D. Boughton. -- Figure 3.9: Socketed axehead from Rookley Farm, Stockbridge (Hampshire). Portable Antiquities Number: HAMP1871. Image courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. -- Figure 3.10: Danebury Hoard (Hampshire). Andover Museum (Hampshire Cultural Trust). -- Figure 3.11: Razors, socketed leather-working knives and chape from Salisbury Hoard. Illustration: D. Boughton. -- Figure 3.12: One of over five hundred socketed axehead of Portland type from Langton Matravers Hoard (Dorset). Image used with kind permission of Dorset County Museum, Dorchester.
Chapter 4 -- The Devil or the Divine? Supernatural objects and multi-period hoards in later prehistory -- Alex Davies -- Figure 4.1: Part of the Minster hoard, showing a palstave belonging to the Penard stage, and other later objects of the Ewart Park stage (adapted from Turner 2010: Illustrations 108, 113 and 115) Reproduced with kind permission of BAR Publishing www.barpu -- Figure 4.2: Six axes from the Crooksbury Hill hoard (Anon 1854, except palstave on right is from Needham 1980: fig. 5.4). Courtesy of Surrey Archaeological Society -- Figure 4.3: Part of the Shoebury 1 hoard, showing a palstave belonging to the Taunton stage, a large decorated bracelet from the Alps, and a selection of Ewart Park objects (adapted from Smith 1958). © Trustees of the British Museum -- Figure 4.4: Earliest and Early Iron Age exotic objects from the continent. -- Chapter 5 -- Iron Age antiques: Assessing the functions of old objects in Britain from 400 BC to AD 100 -- Helen Chittock -- Figure 5.1: A sketch of RF40 from the South Cave Hoard, and a close-up of its replacement chape. H. Chittock, with kind permission from David Marchant, Beverley Treasure House. -- Figure 5.2: The Grotesque Torc, Snettisham (British Museum 1991,0407.37) ©Trustees of the British Museum, with kind permission. -- Figure 5.3: An x-ray of the Kirkburn sword, showing repair to its front plate (British Museum, 1987,0404.2) ©Trustees of the British Museum, with kind permission. -- Figure 5.4: The Grimthorpe shield (British Museum 1876,0208.1) ©Trustees of the British Museum, with kind permission. -- Figure 5.5: Sketches showing the varied patterns observed on the fittings of the Grimthorpe Shield. Top left: central boss. Top right: small disc. Bottom: border of crescentic plaque. See Figure 5.4 for scale. Illustration: H. Chittock. -- Chapter 6 -- The Antique Antique? -- Mark Lewis.
Figure 6.1: The Museum of Antiquities, Caerleon, 1850, by James Flewitt Mullock (1818-1892). By permission of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales. TIRLUN CYMRU Monmouthshire Top. B10/1 B024 -- Figure 6.2: (a) The tombstone of Tadia Vallaunius from Caerleon with Latin capital letters cut at Caerleon during the second or third centuries AD (AC-NMW Acc. No. 31.78, RIB I 369). (b) Silver finger ring bezel from the Caerleon Fortress Baths (AC-NMW Ac -- Figure 6.3: (a) and (b) Glass and nicolo paste ring settings imitating gem stones from the Caerleon Fortress Baths excavations (AC-NMW Acc. No. 81.79H/4.52 (3a) and 81.79H/4.34 (3b)). (c) and (d) Contemporary forgeries from the Llanvaches Coin Hoard (AC-N -- Figure 6.4: Caerleon Prysg Field Nereid gem and iron finger ring (AC-NMW Acc. No. 32.60/4. (stolen)). © Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.5: Glass counters from the Praetorium deposit (AC-NMW Acc. No. 31.78, Caerleon Number 6.1). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.6: Repurposed Roman ceramic antefixa from Caerleon (AC-NMW Acc. Nos left to right (a): 63.228B F37b, (b): 81.79H/55.1 and (c): 56.214B F47 73). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.7: The Caerleon 'Roman Gates' excavation 'Celtic Horse stud' (AC-NMW Acc. No. 88.165H/71). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Figure 6.8: (a) An epoxy resin cast from a pewter replica of the Caerleon 'Roman Gates' genius togatus figurine made at the time of its discovery and owned by Graham Oxlade. (b) The replica figure during mould making for making the epoxy resin replica sho -- Figure 6.9: Published illustration and photograph of geological fossils from excavations at (a) Roman Caerleon and (b) Roman Usk (AC-NMW Acc. Nos (a): 81.79H/44.23 -- (b): 82.11H). © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales -- Chapter 7.
Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves -- Chapter 7 -- Rethinking heirlooms in early medieval graves -- Brian Costello and Howard Williams -- Figure 7.1: Map of east Kent showing the Mill Hill, Deal, and Saltwood Tunnel, Saltwood, cemeteries in relation to the overall distribution of known early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries (Base map of historic coastline re-drawn after Brookes and Harrington (2010: -- Figure 7.2: Schematic annotated grave-plans of the four early Anglo-Saxon inhumation graves that form the focus of this study. Top-left: grave 61, Mill Hill, Deal (after Parfitt and Brugmann 1997: 201) -- top-right: grave 102, Mill Hill, Deal (after Parfitt -- Chapter 8 -- Medieval engagements with the material past: some evidence from European coin hoards, AD c. 1000-1500 -- Murray Andrews -- Figure 8.1: Pierced gold aureus of Numerian (RIC V Carus 443), issued in AD 283-284, from the late fourteenth-century Erfurt hoard (Weissenborn 1878: 211) -- Figure 8.2: Impression of a medieval silver signet ring, incorporating a Roman carnelian intaglio, from the Evesham Abbey Gardens hoard (Cuming 1876: 116) -- Chapter 9 -- Deep Time in the ruins of a Tudor Palace? - Fossils from the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich -- Peter J. Leeming -- Figure 9.1: A variety of fossil belemnites, showing the ends of two larger examples (A and B) -- the cross section of one specimen showing the concentric growth-rings and the siphuncle (C) -- a specimen where the siphuncle is not preserved -- the join of the gu -- Figure 9.2: A fossil belemnite in cross section in a slab of polished Jura Limestone now used decoratively in the Arndale Centre, Manchester. This specimen has the usual hard bullet-like rostrum surviving, but also has the rarer survival of the phragmocon -- Figure 9.3: (a) Belemnite from Greenwich, BM Acc. No. 1954,1102.60.
(b) Piece of stone with cast of fossil, BM Acc. No. 1954,1102.59. Sketches by the author.
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A painted ridge : rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / / David Mendel Witelson
A painted ridge : rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / / David Mendel Witelson
Autore Witelson David Mendel
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (164 pages)
Disciplina 709.01130968757
Collana Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology
Soggetto topico Rock paintings - South Africa - Maclear
San (African people) - Antiquities
ISBN 1-78969-245-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: A PAINTED RIDGE -- The problem with 'sites' -- An overview of previous Maclear District rock art research -- Ethnographic analogy and San performance -- Documenting the MR sites -- Recording MR rock art -- Digital enhancements -- Enhancing the MEL ridge -- From observations to theory -- CHAPTER 2: PERFORMANCE THEORY -- Performance Studies and South African rock art research -- Performance Studies -- Performance -- Ritual -- Performativity -- The ethnography of performance -- A Kaluli séance -- San expressive culture and performances -- From theory to ethnography -- CHAPTER 3: DANCING AND PAINTING-A PERFORMATIVE DYAD? -- Trancing with friends, dancing with death -- Interactions during a trance dance -- The dancers and the women who clap and sing -- Dancers, participants, and the dance fire -- N|om seekers and masters -- Masters and other masters -- Dancers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Special curing ceremonies -- From dancing to painting -- CHAPTER 4: BEHIND THE SCENES -- The process behind image-making -- The four stages -- Acquisition of imagery -- Manufacture of paint -- Making rock paintings -- Using rock paintings -- From ritual process to interactive images -- CHAPTER 5: PAINTED AND IMPLIED INTERACTIONS -- Interactions between image-makers and the rock face -- Depressions and containment -- Cracks, steps and edges -- Idiosyncratic uses of the rock face -- From simple interaction to complex interactions -- Interactions between image-makers and images on the rock face -- Interactions between image-makers and animals -- Interactions between image-makers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Interactions between the viewers and the images -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6: SHELTERED PERFORMANCES -- The criteria for image-making performances -- Who actually made the images?.
The ritual of image-making performances -- Reality, non-reality and the social construction of reality -- Image-makers and failure -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: COMING TO TERMS WITH DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES -- Limitations -- Insights from performance theory and future directions -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: SITE MEASUREMENTS -- APPENDIX B: SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS -- APPENDIX C: IMAGE COUNTS -- APPENDIX D: DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT PROCEDURES -- PROCEDURE 1 -- PROCEDURE 2 -- References.
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Witelson David Mendel  
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A painted ridge : rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / / David Mendel Witelson
A painted ridge : rock art and performance in the Maclear District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / / David Mendel Witelson
Autore Witelson David Mendel
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (164 pages)
Disciplina 709.01130968757
Collana Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology
Soggetto topico Rock paintings - South Africa - Maclear
San (African people) - Antiquities
ISBN 1-78969-245-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: A PAINTED RIDGE -- The problem with 'sites' -- An overview of previous Maclear District rock art research -- Ethnographic analogy and San performance -- Documenting the MR sites -- Recording MR rock art -- Digital enhancements -- Enhancing the MEL ridge -- From observations to theory -- CHAPTER 2: PERFORMANCE THEORY -- Performance Studies and South African rock art research -- Performance Studies -- Performance -- Ritual -- Performativity -- The ethnography of performance -- A Kaluli séance -- San expressive culture and performances -- From theory to ethnography -- CHAPTER 3: DANCING AND PAINTING-A PERFORMATIVE DYAD? -- Trancing with friends, dancing with death -- Interactions during a trance dance -- The dancers and the women who clap and sing -- Dancers, participants, and the dance fire -- N|om seekers and masters -- Masters and other masters -- Dancers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Special curing ceremonies -- From dancing to painting -- CHAPTER 4: BEHIND THE SCENES -- The process behind image-making -- The four stages -- Acquisition of imagery -- Manufacture of paint -- Making rock paintings -- Using rock paintings -- From ritual process to interactive images -- CHAPTER 5: PAINTED AND IMPLIED INTERACTIONS -- Interactions between image-makers and the rock face -- Depressions and containment -- Cracks, steps and edges -- Idiosyncratic uses of the rock face -- From simple interaction to complex interactions -- Interactions between image-makers and images on the rock face -- Interactions between image-makers and animals -- Interactions between image-makers and spirits-of-the-dead -- Interactions between the viewers and the images -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6: SHELTERED PERFORMANCES -- The criteria for image-making performances -- Who actually made the images?.
The ritual of image-making performances -- Reality, non-reality and the social construction of reality -- Image-makers and failure -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: COMING TO TERMS WITH DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES -- Limitations -- Insights from performance theory and future directions -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX A: SITE MEASUREMENTS -- APPENDIX B: SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS -- APPENDIX C: IMAGE COUNTS -- APPENDIX D: DIGITAL ENHANCEMENT PROCEDURES -- PROCEDURE 1 -- PROCEDURE 2 -- References.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910824170703321
Witelson David Mendel  
Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]
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Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt : agency, cultural reproduction and change / / edited by Érika Maynart, Carolina Velloza and Rennan Lemos
Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt : agency, cultural reproduction and change / / edited by Érika Maynart, Carolina Velloza and Rennan Lemos
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (118 pages)
Disciplina 932
ISBN 1-78491-934-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910794648303321
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Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt : agency, cultural reproduction and change / / edited by Érika Maynart, Carolina Velloza and Rennan Lemos
Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt : agency, cultural reproduction and change / / edited by Érika Maynart, Carolina Velloza and Rennan Lemos
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (118 pages)
Disciplina 932
ISBN 1-78491-934-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910821800303321
Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
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Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland / / Graeme Wilson
Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland / / Graeme Wilson
Autore Wilson Graeme
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (160 pages) : color illustrations
Disciplina 936.11
Soggetto topico Prehistoric peoples - Scotland
Play - History
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-78969-076-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910467694603321
Wilson Graeme  
Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland / / Graeme Wilson
Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland / / Graeme Wilson
Autore Wilson Graeme
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (160 pages) : color illustrations
Disciplina 936.11
Soggetto topico Prehistoric peoples - Scotland
Play - History
ISBN 1-78969-076-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910793722503321
Wilson Graeme  
Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland / / Graeme Wilson
Playing with things : the archaeology, anthropology and ethnography of human-object interactions in Atlantic Scotland / / Graeme Wilson
Autore Wilson Graeme
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (160 pages) : color illustrations
Disciplina 936.11
Soggetto topico Prehistoric peoples - Scotland
Play - History
ISBN 1-78969-076-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910827719303321
Wilson Graeme  
Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2018]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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The Poole Iron Age logboat / / edited by Jessica Berry, David Parham, and Catrina Appleby ; with contributions by Damian Goodburn [and 8 others]
The Poole Iron Age logboat / / edited by Jessica Berry, David Parham, and Catrina Appleby ; with contributions by Damian Goodburn [and 8 others]
Autore Berry Jessica
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (135 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map
Disciplina 623.82/1
Collana Archaeopress Archaeology
Soggetto topico Boats, Ancient - England - Poole (Dorset)
Dugout canoes - England - Poole (Dorset) - Antiquities
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-78969-145-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910467737303321
Berry Jessica  
Oxford : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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