基本説明
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.
Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Prologue ; 2. The historical background to the discovery of cave art at Creswell Crags ; 3. The Palaeolithic rock art of Creswell Crags: prelude to a systematic study ; 4. Verification of the age of the Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags ; 5. 3D laser scanning at Church Hole, Creswell Crags ; 6. Zoological perspectives on the Late Glacial ; 7. Cave archaeology and palaeontology in the Creswell region ; 8. The Stone Age archaeology of Church Hole, Creswell Crags ; 9. Cultural context and form of some of the Creswell images: an interpretative model ; 10. The engravings of Gouy: France's northernmost decorated cave ; 11. Palaeolithic art in isolation: the case of Sicily and Sardinia ; 12. The horse in the Palaeolithic parietal art of the Quercy: outline of a stylistic study ; 13. A topographical approach to parietal figures: the monumental sculptures of the Roc-aux-Sorciers (Vienne, France) ; 14. Dating Magdalenian art in North Spain: the current situation ; 15. Rock art and the Coa Valley Archaeological Park: a case study in the preservation of Portugal's prehistoric rupestral heritage ; 16. Rewriting the history books: the Magdalenian art of Creswell Crags
