Making a mark : image and process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland /

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Author / Creator:	Jones, Andrew, 1967- author.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2019.
Description:	xxix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Neolithic period -- Great Britain. Neolithic period -- Ireland. Great Britain -- Antiquities. Ireland -- Antiquities.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11782979

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ISBN:	1789251885 9781789251883
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The visual imagery of Neolithic Britain and Ireland is spectacular. While the imagery of passage tombs, such as Knowth and Newgrange, are well known the rich imagery on decorated portable artefacts is less well understood. How does the visual imagery found on decorated portable artefacts compare with other Neolithic imagery, such as passage tomb art and rock art? How do decorated portable artefacts relate chronologically to other examples of Neolithic imagery?0Using cutting edge digital imaging techniques, the Making a Mark project examined Neolithic decorated portable artefacts of chalk, stone, bone, antler, and wood from three key regions: southern England and East Anglia; the Irish Sea region (Wales, the Isle of Man and eastern Ireland); and Northeast Scotland and Orkney. Digital analysis revealed, for the first time, the prevalence of practices of erasure and reworking amongst a host of decorated portable artefacts, changing our understanding of these enigmatic artefacts. Rather than mark making being a peripheral activity, we can now appreciate the central importance of mark making to the formation of Neolithic communities across Britain and Ireland.

Table of Contents:

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Synopsis
Resumé
Zusammenfassung
Sinopsis
Sinopse
Preface
Introduction
1. The arts of Neolithic Britain and Ireland?
2. Imagery and process
The Archaeology
3. Chalk and the chalklands of southern England
4. Chalk drums: Folkton and Lavant
5. The Irish Sea region: Ireland, Wales and the Isle of Man
6. Artefacts in process: making carved stone balls
7. Flint and fabrication: the mace heads of Maesmore type
8. Orkney: figurines and sculptured stones
9. Image and process in an architectural context: decorated stonework from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney
Relationalities
10. Mark making in the Neolithic: passage tomb art, rock art, pottery and enclosures
11. Remarkable objects, Multiple objects: the ontology of decorated artefacts in Neolithic Britain and Ireland
12. Chequered histories: a minor narrative of Neolithic mark making
Collaborations
13. Digital collaborations
14. Terminal Hut
Coda
15. Making matters
Appendix
References
Index

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