Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 March 2007
- ISBN 9780199299171
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 240x165x20 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 131 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
A comprehensive and fully illustrated study, by an international team of experts, of the first British examples of cave art, discovered at Creswell Crags on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border in 2003. This important discovery is contextualized by comparative, up-to-date studies of European cave art, from Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy.
MoreLong description:
Cave art is a subject of perennial interest among archaeologists. Until recently it was assumed that it was largely restricted to southern France and northern Iberia, although in recent years new discoveries have demonstrated that it originally had a much wider distribution. The discovery in 2003 of the UK's first examples of cave art, in two caves at Creswell Crags on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border, was the most surprising illustration of this. The discoverers (the editors of the book) brought together in 2004 a number of Palaeolithic archaeologists and rock art specialists from across the world to study the Creswell art and debate its significance, and its similarities and contrasts with contemporary Late Pleistocene ('Ice Age') art on the Continent. This comprehensively illustrated book presents the Creswell art itself, the archaeology of the caves and the region, and the wider context of the Upper Palaeolithic era in Britain, as well as a number of up-to-date studies of Palaeolithic cave art in Spain, Portugal, France, and Italy which serve to contextualize the British examples.
In archaeological terms, let alone the cave-relevant subject matter, this was an incredibly important gathering and the book an equally important outcome.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
The historical background to the discovery of cave art at Creswell Crags
The Palaeolithic rock art of Creswell Crags: prelude to a systematic study
Verification of the age of the Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags
3D laser scanning at Church Hole, Creswell Crags
Zoological perspectives on the Late Glacial
Cave archaeology and palaeontology in the Creswell region
The Stone Age archaeology of Church Hole, Creswell Crags
Cultural context and form of some of the Creswell images: an interpretative model
The engravings of Gouy: France's northernmost decorated cave
Palaeolithic art in isolation: the case of Sicily and Sardinia
The horse in the Palaeolithic parietal art of the Quercy: outline of a stylistic study
A topographical approach to parietal figures: the monumental sculptures of the Roc-aux-Sorciers (Vienne, France)
Dating Magdalenian art in North Spain: the current situation
Rock art and the Coa Valley Archaeological Park: a case study in the preservation of Portugal's prehistoric rupestral heritage
Rewriting the history books: the Magdalenian art of Creswell Crags
