Author: Sir Richard Colt HoarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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The Ancient History of North Wiltshire
Author: Sir Richard Colt HoarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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Ritual in Early Bronze Age Grave Goods
Author: John HunterPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782976973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The exotic and impressive grave goods from burials of the ‘Wessex Culture’ in Early Bronze Age Britain are well known and have inspired influential social and economic hypotheses, invoking the former existence of chiefs, warriors and merchants and high-ranking pastoralists. Alternative theories have sought to explain the how display of such objects was related to religious and ritual activity rather than to economic status, and that groups of artefacts found in certain graves may have belonged to religious specialists. This volume is the result of a major research that aimed to investigate Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age grave goods in relation to their possible use as special dress accessories or as equipment employed within ritual activities and ceremonies. Many items of adornment can be shown to have formed elements of elaborate costumes, probably worn by individuals, both male and female, who held important ritual roles within society. Furthermore, the analysis has shown that various categories of object long interpreted as mundane types of tool were in fact items of bodily adornment or implements used in ritual contexts, or in the special embellishment of the human body. Although never intended to form a complete catalogue of all the relevant artefacts from England the volume provides an extensive, and intensively illustrated, overview of a large proportion of the grave goods from English burial sites.
The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: Catalogue of Books
Author: John TaylorPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author: Catalogue. [With]
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Author: Oxford and Cambridge university club librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Pictorial Archaeology
Author: Roger BalmPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100385057X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book explores the expressly pictorial type of visual archaeology, the transcribing of three-dimensional materiality into two-dimensional depictions, and its influential history within the discipline. The picturing of ancient sites and artifacts to convey information links visual reporting with the workings of the imagination and indicates that the study of antiquity has always had a hybrid identity: part artistic and part scientific. In examining expressly pictorial forms of visual story-telling about the past, this book looks beyond certain supposed "creative turns" and focuses instead on creative continuities, answering key questions about the power of picturing and its ability to not only inform documentary practices but actively structure those practices. How are prints, drawings, paintings and photographs able to collapse the three-dimensional world of the ancient past onto a flat page but also convey a sense of material reality? In contemporary practice, how do pictorial ways of seeing enable the interpretation of material remains but also shape the recognition of digital traces on a computer screen? Published illustrations, both historical and contemporary, are primary sources of evidence for answering such questions and identifying common patterns of pictorial information. This book provides a framework for scholars researching the visual culture of archaeology as well as the history of archaeology. It is also recommended for professionals in the fields of heritage studies, conservation and community archaeology.
Horae Ferales Or Studies in the Archaeology of the Northern Nations
Author: KembleHorae Serales; Or, Studies in the Archaeology of the Northern Nations
Author: John Mitchell KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Horæ Ferales, Or, Studies in the Archæology of the Northern Nations
Author: John Mitchell KemblePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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