The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place

by Edited by Christopher Chippindale , George Nash

• ISBN13: 9780521818797
• ISBN10: 0521818796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A companion to The Archaeology of Rock-Art (Cambridge 1998), this new collection edited by Christopher Chippindale and George Nash addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art draws together the work of many well-known scholars from key regions of the world for rock-art and for rock-art research. It provides a unique, broad and varied insight into the arrangement, location, and structure of rock-art and its place within the landscapes of ancient worlds as ancient people experienced them. Packed with illustrations, as befits a book about images, The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art offers a visual as well as a literary key to the understanding of this most lovely and alluring of archaeological traces.

Table of Contents

1. Pictures in place: approaches to the figured landscapes of rock-art Christopher Chippindale and George Nash

Part I. Principles of Landscape and Rock-Art in Practice: 2. Worlds within stone: the inner and outer rock-art landscapes of northern Australia and southern Africa Paul S. C. Taç

on and Sven Ouzman

3. Rock-art, landscape, sacred places: attitudes in contemporary archaeological theory Daniel Arsenault

4. Locational analysis in rock-art studies William D. Hyder

5. From millimetre up to kilometre: a framework of space and of scale for reporting and studying rock-art in its landscape Christopher Chippindale

6. The canvas as the art: landscape-analysis of the rock-art panel James D. Keyser and George Poetschat

7. The landscape setting of rock-painting sites in the Brandberg (Namibia): infrastructure, Gestaltung, use and meaning Tilman Lenssen-Erz

Part II. Informed Methods: Opportunities and Applications: 8. Rock-art and the experienced landscape: the emergence of late-Holocene symbolism in north-east Australia Bruno David

9. Linkage between rock-art and landscape in Aboriginal Australia Josephine Flood

10. Places of power: the placement of Dinwoody petroglyphs across the Wyoming landscape Lawrence Loendorf

11. Friends in low places: rock-art and landscape on the Modoc Plateau David S. Whitley, Johannes H. N. Loubser and Don Hann

12. Dangerous ground: a critique of landscape in rock-art studies Benjamin W. Smith and Geoffrey Blundell

Part III. Formal Methods: Opportunities and Applications: 13. Landscapes in rock-art: rock-carving and ritual in the old European North Knut Helskog

14. From natural settings to spiritual places in the Algonkian sacred landscape: an archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic analysis of Canadian Shield rock-art sites Daniel Arsenault

15. The topographic engravings of Alpine rock-art: fields, settlements and agricultural landscapes Andrea Arcà

Part IV. Pictures of Pictures: 16. Walking through landscape: a photographic essay of the Campo Lameiro Valley, Galicia, north-western Spain George Nash, Lindsey Nash and Christopher Chippindale.