Animated images: images, agency and landscape in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland
Animated images: images, agency and landscape in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland
Although the temporality of the landscape has become a major concern for archaeologists, the temporal quality of art images has not been fully appreciated. This issue is especially pressing when we analyse prehistoric rock art in a landscape setting. This article offers a critique of current semiological approaches to prehistoric art and suggests an alternative in the study of signs as indexes as proposed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. An indexical analysis of prehistoric rock art and its relationship to monuments in the landscape of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland provides an enriched understanding of the relationships produced by marking the landscape.
bronze age, neolithic, landscape, rock art, temporality
211-225
Jones, Andy
3e8becff-0d46-42eb-85db-2dd4f07e92a3
2006
Jones, Andy
3e8becff-0d46-42eb-85db-2dd4f07e92a3
Jones, Andy
(2006)
Animated images: images, agency and landscape in Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland.
Journal of Material Culture, Vol. 11 (No. 1/2), .
(doi:10.1177/1359183506063023).
Abstract
Although the temporality of the landscape has become a major concern for archaeologists, the temporal quality of art images has not been fully appreciated. This issue is especially pressing when we analyse prehistoric rock art in a landscape setting. This article offers a critique of current semiological approaches to prehistoric art and suggests an alternative in the study of signs as indexes as proposed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. An indexical analysis of prehistoric rock art and its relationship to monuments in the landscape of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland provides an enriched understanding of the relationships produced by marking the landscape.
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Published date: 2006
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bronze age, neolithic, landscape, rock art, temporality
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/43131
ISSN: 1359-1835
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