Author: Manuel Santos Estévez Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 200
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El arte rupestre desempeña un papel especial como actor privilegiado dentro de las estrategias sociales de construcción y (re)producción de la realidad socialmente construida. Para su estudio hay soluciones posibles. Pero todas ellas se tienen que pegar al análisis contextual, al formal, al comparativismo. Estas son las vías que exploran los trabajos del presente Volumen, donde se reúnen una serie de aportaciones de investigadores de diferentes países que abordan el problema del arte rupestre desde distintas perspectivas, pero que tienen en común tres puntos: (I) reconocimiento de la importancia de los aspectos teóricos para el estudio y entendimiento del arte rupestre, (II) desarrollo de metodologías formales, sean cuantitativas o cualitativas, y (III) comprensión del arte rupestre como un elemento activo en los procesos sociales contingentes en sus momentos históricos.
Author: Natalie R. Franklin Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1842173162 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 328
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This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although in the field of Pleistocene art many new discoveries have been made, and a new country added to the select list of those with Ice Age cave art. Some regions such as North Africa and the former USSR have seen a tremendous amount of activity, focusing not only on recording but also on chronology, and the conservation of sites. With the global increase of tourism, the management of rock art sites that are accessible to the public is a theme of ever-growing importance.
Author: Natalie R. Franklin Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1782975888 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 328
Book Description
This is the third in the five-yearly series of surveys of what is happening in rock art studies around the world. As always, the texts reflect something of the great differences in approach and emphasis that exist in different regions. The volume presents examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the New World. During the period in question, 1999 to 2004, there have been few major events, although in the field of Pleistocene art many new discoveries have been made, and a new country added to the select list of those with Ice Age cave art. Some regions such as North Africa and the former USSR have seen a tremendous amount of activity, focusing not only on recording but also on chronology, and the conservation of sites. With the global increase of tourism, the management of rock art sites that are accessible to the public is a theme of ever-growing importance.
Author: Inés Domingo Sanz Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315434326 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 280
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This international volume draws together key research that examines visual arts of the past and contemporary indigenous societies. Placing each art style in its temporal and geographic context, the contributors show how depictions represent social mechanisms of identity construction, and how stylistic differences in product and process serve to reinforce cultural identity. Examples stretch from the Paleolithic to contemporary world and include rock art, body art, and portable arts. Ethnographic studies of contemporary art production and use, such as among contemporary Aboriginal groups, are included to help illuminate artistic practices and meanings in the past. The volume reflects the diversity of approaches used by archaeologists to incorporate visual arts into their analysis of past cultures and should be of great value to archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.
Author: Chris Fowler Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191666890 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 1303
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The Neolithic --a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe--has been a key topic of archaeological research for over a century. However, the variety of evidence across Europe, the range of languages in which research is carried out, and the way research traditions in different countries have developed makes it very difficult for both students and specialists to gain an overview of continent-wide trends. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe provides the first comprehensive, geographically extensive, thematic overview of the European Neolithic --from Iberia to Russia and from Norway to Malta --offering both a general introduction and a clear exploration of key issues and current debates surrounding evidence and interpretation. Chapters written by leading experts in the field examine topics such as the movement of plants, animals, ideas, and people (including recent trends in the application of genetics and isotope analyses); cultural change (from the first appearance of farming to the first metal artefacts); domestic architecture; subsistence; material culture; monuments; and burial and other treatments of the dead. In doing so, the volume also considers the history of research and sets out agendas and themes for future work in the field.
Author: Ana M. S. Bettencourt Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1789254914 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 492
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Weapons and tools are frequently found depicted in rock art in many parts of the globe and different periods and in varying social contexts. This collection of papers by leading rock art specialists examines the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in art, the actions that created them, and their contexts. It also takes into account that such representations incorporate and transmit some kind of understanding about the world and the relationship between objects and humans. Contributors analyse objects and weapons as status symbols, as evidences of cultural contacts, as ideological devices, etc. Divided into regional sections which, for once, do not focus on Scandinavia, chapters deal with the representations of weapons and certain kinds of tools (such as axes and sickles) in different prehistoric, protohistoric and traditional community contexts all over the world. Attention focuses on rock art, but also looks at stelae and statue-menhirs, as well as other kinds of ‘container’ or vehicle for this kind of depiction. The major concern is to discuss the possible meanings of these embodied signs in different areas and periods, since meanings are permeable both to time and space. Papers either centre their attention in broader approaches based on a specific area, region or people, or focus on particular case studies.
Author: Johan Ling Publisher: Oxbow Books ISBN: 1782978798 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 185
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Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to figurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing important themes including religion, materiality, mobility, interaction, power and gender. Contributors explore specific elements of rock art in some detail such as the representation of the human form; images of manslaughter; and gender identities. The relationship between rock art imagery and its location on the one hand, and metalwork and networks of trade and exchange of both materials and ideas on the other, are considered. Modern and ancient perceptions of rock art are discussed, in particular the changing perceptions that have developed during almost 150 years of documented research. Picturing the Bronze Age is based on an international workshop with the same title held in Tanum, Sweden in October 2012.
Author: Joakim Goldhahn Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108499090 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 449
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Shows how archaeologists gain knowledge about past ontologies, and explores the role that birds played in Bronze Age economy, ritual and religion.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : es Pages : 465
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Este trabajo se ocupa de la relación hipotética que podría establecerse entre el arte rupestre y el paisaje en el que aquel se localiza, basada en las características locacionales del primero. El conjunto de arte rupestre estudiado es el llamado "arte levantino", localizado en la parte oriental de la Península Ibérica. Este arte rupestre puede ser dividido en dos grupos estilísticos, a saber, levantino y esquemático. A pesar de que esta clasificación tiene serios problemas que han sido ampliamente expuestos, ha sido utilizada en la presente tesis para evaluarla desde un punto de vista distinto al propiamente estilístico. Al mismo tiempo, el objetivo principal de esta tesis era analizar la localización de las estaciones de arte rupestre para intentar sintetizar una estructura geográfica a partir de ellas, que eventualmente pudiera interpretarse como un "sistema" de arte rupestre. Se han usado para ello varias escalas y unidades de análisis distintas, de manera que pudiera ser evaluado el contraste entre ellas: local, microrregional, regional y peninsular. Tres son las fuentes principales de datos: el Corpus de Pintura Rupestre Levantina, perteneciente al Departamento de Prehistoria, Instituto de Historia, CSIC; el Expediente UNESCO, depositado en el Instituto para la Conservación del Patrimonio, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; y el trabajo de campo propio. Las estaciones de arte rupestre han sido perfectamente situadas con toda esta información. Los rasgos geográficos y culturales más importantes elegidospara caracterizar cada estación de arte rupestre son : la altitud, la pendiente, la orientación, el sustrato geológico, el uso del suelo registrado, la localización topográfica y la distancia a agua y caminos. Esta información se extrajo de la cartografía contenida en el Sistema de Información Geográfica elaborado para el Estudio. Se han hecho análisis estadísticos comparativos de los valores de estas variables para las estaciones de arte rupestre y un grupo de puntos aleatorios creado para cada una de las escalas de análisis. Los resultados pueden resumirse como sigue: el arte rupestre no se localiza aleatoriamente en el paisaje, y los grupos estilísticos pueden ser diferenciados en términos de sus localizaciones, producidas por las diferentes elecciones de los pintores. Los contextos local y regional son los más apropiados para el estudio del arte rupestre, que puede ser entendido solamente desde un punto de vista amplio e inclusivo. Finalmente el estudio local revela la existencia de sistemas reales de arte rupestre, en los que ambos estilos son complementarios: construyen un paisaje por medio de la señalización de lugares especiales en él. Estos sistemas son de hecho económicos, funcionales: el arte rupestre levantino se puede relacionar con la formación social conocida como neolítico, lo que significa que la construcción del paisaje que representa debería ser ligada principalmente a actividades económicas productivas, y no con actividades de caza y recolección, como se ha mantenido hasta ahora. En definitiva, en el origen del surgimiento del arte rupestre de este ámbito peninsular están procesos históricos subyacentes que propician la consolidación de la transformación de la sociedad primitiva en una sociedad dividida.
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