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  • Interpreting Landscapes

    Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3

    This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes, asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in the process of human occupation over the long durée. Granite uplands, rolling ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Body and Image

    Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2

    The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture, landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic lens—a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields. Thus, Chris Tilley argues, the iconographic approach falls short of understanding how ancient people ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Thinking Through Images

    Narrative, rhythm, embodiment and landscape in the Nordic Bronze Age

    Series Book 7 - Swedish Rock Art Research Series
    This book provides 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 thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interpretative Archaeology

    Edited by Christopher Tilley ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas of interest to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Materiality of Stone

    Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology

    With Wayne Bennett From the silky wax qualities of the surfaces of some quartz menhirs to the wood-grain textures of others, to the golden honeycombed limestones of Malta, to the icy frozen waves of the Cambrian sandstone of south-east Sweden, this book investigates the sensuous material qualities of stone. Tactile sensations, sonorous qualities, colour, and visual impressions are all shown to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Material Culture and Text

    The Art of Ambiguity

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
    Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology. It tackles the most basic problem of historical and archaeological analysis - the relationship between text and artefact – in an analysis of prehistoric art fusing theory and the practice of interpretation to create a fresh framework for understanding the relationship ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Re-constructing Archaeology

    Theory and Practice

    InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Stone Worlds

    Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology

    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project. The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England, especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal, multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor—both ancient and modern ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden

    An Introduction and Guide

    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    This book is the first comprehensive introduction and guide to Sweden’s most spectacular Stone Age monuments: the dolmens and passage graves, which began to be constructed over 5000 years ago. The introduction provides a detailed social interpretation of these monuments outlining how and why they were built and the ways in which they related to economy and landscape, politics, ceremony, symbolism ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

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    Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

    by Tim Ingold ...
    Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • An Archaeology of Natural Places

    This volume explores why natural places such as caves, mountains, springs and rivers assumed a sacred character in European prehistory, and how the evidence for this can be analysed in the field. It shows how established research on votive deposits, rock art and production sites can contribute to a more imaginative approach to the prehistoric landscape, and can even shed light on the origins of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Rock Art & Ritual

    Mindscapes of Prehistory

    Academic interpretations of Neolithic rock motifs and their location within the landscape and on ancient monuments are often thought-provoking, but they invariably shy away from acknowledging the remarkable coherence exhibited by petroglyphs throughout the British Isles. In Mindscapes of Prehistory, Brian A. Smith and Alan A. Walker have taken the arguments they first developed in Rock Art and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD