Ritual landscapes and borders within rock art research : papers in honour of Professor Kalle Sognnes /

Ritual landscapes and borders are recurring themes running through Professor Kalle Sognnes' long research career. This anthology contains 13 articles written by colleagues from his broad network in appreciation of his many contributions to the field of rock art research.

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Other Authors: Sognnes, Kalle (honouree.), Stebergløkken, Heidrun (Editor), Berge, Ragnhild (Editor), Lindgaard, Eva (Editor), Stuedal, Helle Vangen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Knowing by learning by being there
  • the course which formed a new generation of rock art researchers; Contested worlds
  • a chronotropic essay about mortuary monuments and cultural change in Northern Europe in the second millennium BC; Art and intimacy within the prehistoric landscapes of Norway: how hunter/fisher/gatherers organized their ritual and political worlds through art; Making community: rock art and the creative acts of accumulation; Bow and errors; The method and physical processes behind the making of hunters' rock art in Western Norway: the experimental production of images; Boundless rock art
  • symbols, contexts and times in prehistoric imagery of Fennoscandia; Subsistence in central Norway elucidated through rock art excavation and documentation; Between land and water: the ship in Bronze Age west Norway; The motif of the boat in Valcamonica rock art
  • problems of chronology and interpretation; Contrasts of the maritime environment
  • possible implications in prehistory
  • A very short course of cognition in the ancient maritime cultural landscape; Rock art and the importance of style
  • style complexes and group identity
  • South-Western United States and Mid-Scandinavian
  • a comparable approach; memory and destruction
  • pictorial prectices surrounding red ochre paintings in late Neolithic Northern Sweden