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The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place
Chippindale
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Description for The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place
paperback. This book addresses the most important component around the rock-art panel - its landscape. Editor(s): Chippindale, Christopher; Nash, George. Num Pages: 420 pages, 192 b/w illus. 18 maps 25 tables. BIC Classification: ACBK; ACC; HDDA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 22. Weight in Grams: 930.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521524247
SKU
V9780521524247
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About Chippindale
Christopher Chippindale is Curator for archaeology collections and Reader in Archaeology at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. George Nash is Part-time Lecturer at the Centre for the Historic Environment, Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol.
Reviews for The Figured Landscapes of Rock-Art: Looking at Pictures in Place
'... A most successful enterprise, largely because the range and quality of contributors is so consistently high. ...it has much of use and interest to say about rock art and settings in which it occurs, and gives both useful correctives to naïve assumptions of uniformity, and interesting new applications of methods of landscape analysis to rock art studies.' Landscape History ... Read more