Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe
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Atlantic Bronze Age
Atlantic Coastline
Atlantic Europe
Atlantic Rock Art
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Boyne Valley
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burial practices
carvings
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Circular Motifs
Complex Carvings
Complex Rock Art
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Cup Marks
early
Early Bronze Age
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Ilkley Moor
Irish Rock Art
landscape archaeology
marks
megalithic
Megalithic Art
Megalithic Tombs
Mid Argyll
Milfield Basin
North West Spain
Open Air Rock Art
passage
Passage Graves
Passage Tombs
prehistoric
Prehistoric Landscape
Prehistoric Rock Art
prehistoric symbolism
Recumbent Stone Circles
ritual monuments
Rock
Rock Art
Rock Carvings
symbolic communication in archaeology
tomb
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- ISBN 9780415165358
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Along the Atlantic seaboard, from Scotland to Spain, are numerous rock carvings made four to five thousand years ago, whose interpretation poses a major challenge to the archaeologist.
In the first full-length treatment of the subject, based largely on new fieldwork, Richard Bradley argues that these carvings should be interpreted as a series of symbolic messages that are shared between monuments, artefacts and natural places in the landscape. He discusses the cultural setting of the rock carvings and the ways in which they can be interpreted in relation to ancient land use, the creation of ritual monuments and the burial of the dead. Integrating this fascinating yet little-known material into the mainstream of prehistoric studies, Richard Bradley demonstrates that these carvings played a fundamental role in the organization of the prehistoric landscape.
Richard Bradley is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading. He is the author of many works on prehistoric archaeology, including The Social Foundations of Prehistoric Britain, Altering the Earth and co-author of Landscape, Monuments and Society.
