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An animate landscape: rock art and the prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll

An animate landscape: rock art and the prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll
An animate landscape: rock art and the prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll
Report on excavation, landscape survey and environmental reconstruction in the important prehistoric landscape of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland

The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains a number of barrow cemeteries, stone alignments, stone circles and a henge. With over 250 individual rock art sites, it also has the greatest concentration of prehistoric rock art in the British Isles and some of the most impressive rock art sites. An Animate Landscape contains the results of a major research project that included excavations of two sites, Torbhlaren and Ormaig, and the analysis of radiocarbon dates to produce a more coherent chronological context, as well as taking a broader interpretative approach to the landscape. The book argues that the rock art is an active part of the process of socialising the landscape, in which the landscape became more organised from the Late Neolithic onwards, and that this organised landscape relates to broader cosmological concerns.
9781905119417
Windgather Press
Jones, Andrew Meirion
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Freedman, Davina
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Jones, Andrew Meirion, Freedman, Davina, O'Connor, Blaze and Lamdin-Whymark, Hugo (eds.) (2011) An animate landscape: rock art and the prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll Oxford, GB. Windgather Press 400pp.

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Report on excavation, landscape survey and environmental reconstruction in the important prehistoric landscape of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland

The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains a number of barrow cemeteries, stone alignments, stone circles and a henge. With over 250 individual rock art sites, it also has the greatest concentration of prehistoric rock art in the British Isles and some of the most impressive rock art sites. An Animate Landscape contains the results of a major research project that included excavations of two sites, Torbhlaren and Ormaig, and the analysis of radiocarbon dates to produce a more coherent chronological context, as well as taking a broader interpretative approach to the landscape. The book argues that the rock art is an active part of the process of socialising the landscape, in which the landscape became more organised from the Late Neolithic onwards, and that this organised landscape relates to broader cosmological concerns.

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Published date: 2011
Organisations: Archaeology

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Local EPrints ID: 186667
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/186667
ISBN: 9781905119417
PURE UUID: d0a50eb8-bfe9-424b-9bf5-f038a57b4755

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Date deposited: 13 May 2011 15:32
Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 19:16

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Editor: Davina Freedman
Editor: Blaze O'Connor
Editor: Hugo Lamdin-Whymark

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