VISUALISING THE NEOLITHIC by Andrew Cochrane (Editor), Andrew Meirion Jones (Editor) ( 9781842174777 )

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VISUALISING THE NEOLITHIC

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Andrew Cochrane (Editor), Andrew Meirion Jones (Editor)

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Pub. date:

20 September, 2012

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Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 13

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304

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Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume addresses this lacuna and discusses visual expression across Neolithic Europe. The papers in this volume result from a meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group on the topic of 'Neolithic visual culture' at the British Museum in November 2010. The intention of the meeting was to assess new studies of rock art from across Britain and Ireland, and to compare these with studies of Neolithic visuality from continental Europe. Here, the scope of the original meeting is widened, and includes further papers to provide a broader context and more coherent analysis of prehistoric expressionism. The volume is organised so that the rock art and passage tomb art traditions of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland are compared for the first time to the rock art traditions of Northern and Southern Europe, with the mortuary costumes and figurines of South-eastern Europe.

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