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1 online resource (385 pages) |
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Cover; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Major Contributors; Synopsis; Foreign Language Synopses; Preface; 1. Encountering Rock Art; 2. From Geology to Microtopography: rock artand the rock surface; 3. Fieldwork and Excavation at Torbhlaren: Tiger Rock; 4. Excavations at Torbhlaren: Lion Rock; 5. Landscapes and Landscape Dynamics at Torbhlaren; 6. Lithics, Landscape and Performance; 7. Torbhlaren in Context; 8. Rock Art and the Kilmartin landscape; 9. An Animate Landscape I: rock art and the evolutionof the Kilmartin landscape |
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10. An Animate Landscape II: the sacred geographyof prehistoric Kilmartin11. Kilmartin in Context I: Kilmartin and the rock artof prehistoric Scotland; 12. Kilmartin in Context II: connections with the wider world; Coda Animating Landscapes; Appendix A. The Experience of Manufacturing Rock Art; Appendix B. Soil Micromorphology of the Platform at Tiger Rock; Bibliography |
| Summary |
The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains a number of barrow cemeteries, stone alignments, stone circles and a henge. With over 250 individual rock art sites, it also has the greatest concentration of prehistoric rock art in the British Isles and some of the most impressive rock art sites. An Animate Landscape contains the results of a major research project that included excavations of two sites, Torbhlaren and Ormaig, and the analysis of radiocarbon dates to produce a more coherent chronological context, as well as |
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Print version record |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Scotland -- Kilmartin
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Archaeology -- Scotland
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Historic sites -- Scotland
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Scotland
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Petroglyphs -- Scotland
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Art, Prehistoric.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Antiquities
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Archaeology
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Art, Prehistoric
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Historic sites
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Petroglyphs
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Kilmartin (Scotland) -- Antiquities
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Scotland -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118806
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Scotland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118827
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Scotland
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Scotland -- Kilmartin
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Connor, Blaze
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Freedman, Davina
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| ISBN |
9781905119738 |
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1905119739 |
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