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AUTUMN HIGHLIGHTS
Narrative, rhythm, embodiment and landscape in the Nordic Bronze Age By Christopher Tilley (University College London)
A critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art that offers a new theory of visual narrative structure and rhythm. A general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last 30 years. It offers an alternative theoretical perspective that stresses the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies and putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images in a landscape context.
SWEDISH ROCK ART RESEARCH SERIES | OXBOW BOOKS Paperback • 9781789257014 • £38.00 • September 2021 240 pages • 216 x 280 mm • b/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789257021
Neolithic Stone Extraction in Britain and Europe
An ethnoarchaeological perspective By Peter Topping (Newcastle University)
A new, ethnoarchaeological examination of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe. This new title in the Prehistoric Society Research Papers series focuses on the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe. The key research questions are when and why these practices were adopted, and what role extraction sites played in Neolithic society. Rigorously tested and methodologically fool proof, this book presents a new ethnoarchaeological model that can be used to interpret broad trends in many cross-cultural contexts and time periods.
PREHISTORIC SOCIETY RESEARCH PAPERS | OXBOW BOOKS Hardback • 9781789257052 • £35.00 • September 2021 240 pages • 215 x 275 mm • b/w and colour illus. | eBook available: 9781789257069
Cladh Hallan
Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age, Part I: stratigraghy, spatial organisation and chronology By Mike Parker Pearson (University College London), Jacqui Mulville (Cardiff University), Helen Smith (Bournemouth University) and Peter Marshall
The first look at the evidence from excavations at the site of Cladh Hallan. This book presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period to the Early Iron Age at the site of Caldh Hallan (South Uist, Western Isles of Scotland). The findings not only served as the first evidence for mummification in Bronze Age Britain, but have provided insight into the spatial use of domestic interiors from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.
