Palaeolithic Cave Art At Creswell Crags in European Context

Zusatztext Reading this book leaves you marvelling at the astonishing skill of the authors in seeing what generations of visitors to Creswell Crags have missed Informationen zum Autor Paul Pettitt is Lecturer in Human Origins, University of Sheffield.Paul Bahn is an independent researcher.Sergio Ripoll is Lecturer in Archaeology at the Spanish Open University (UNED) in Madrid. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Paul Pettitt, Paul ( Pettitt, Paul Bahn Pettitt
• Assisted by: Paul Bahn (Editor), Paul G. Bahn (Editor), Bahn Paul (Editor), Francisco Javier Munoz Ibanez (Editor), Francisco Javier Muñoz Ibáñez (Editor), Francisco J. Munoz (Editor), Paul Pettitt (Editor), Pettitt Paul (Editor), Sergio Ripoll (Editor), Ripoll Sergio (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2007
• EAN: 9780199299171
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929917-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Europe, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / European, History of Art, History of art: pre-history, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, ART / History / Prehistoric, Prehistoric styles