English revision: Kristin Bornholdt Collins.
Pictorial and visual elements are special types of archaeological data that transgress boundaries: between us and the past and between the material and immaterial. Traditionally, images have been discussed in terms of what they represent, mean or symbolize. In this volume, the authors explore other ways in which images affect and engage the beholder and the modes in which they are entangled in past worlds.
The articles comprise examples from various regions and time periods and include a diverse array of topics including northern European rock art of the Neolithic and Bronze Age, anthropomorphic aspects of ceramic pots and figures in gold, erotic themes on children’s burial vessels, and nineteenth-century rock art created by quarantined sailors in Australia.
Author(s): Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Fredrik Fahlander, Ylva Sjöstrand (eds.)
Series: Stockholm Studies in Archaeology, 57
Publisher: Stockholm University
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: VIII+280
Imagery beyond representation / Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Fredrik Fahlander & Ylva Sjöstrand 1
Cut, pinch and pierce. Image as practice among the Early Formative La Candelaria, First Millennium AD, Northwest Argentina / Benjamin Alberti 13
The rape of the lock. Or a comparison between miniature images of the eighth and eighteenth centuries / Ing-Marie Back Danielsson 29
In loving memory. Inscriptions, images and imagination at the North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney, Australia / Ursula Frederick & Anne Clarke 51
The beauty is in the act of the beholder. South Scandinavian rock art from a uses of the past-perspective / Per Nilsson 77
Articulating stone. The material practice of petroglyphing / Fredrik Fahlander 97
Rock art and coastal change in Bronze Age Scandinavia / Courtney Nimura 117
The immanency of the intangible image. Thoughts with Neolithic expression at Loughcrew / Andrew Cochrane 133
A quest of questions. On the paradigm of identification within rock art research / Ylva Sjöstrand 161
Metaphors and allegories as augmented reality. The use of art to evoke material and immaterial subjects / Dragoş Gheorghiu 177
Sighted surfaces. Ocular agency in Early Anglo-Saxon cremation burials / Ruth Nugent & Howard Williams 187
Selected for the dead. Erotic themes on grave vases from Attic cemeteries / Anthi Dipla & Dimitris Paleothodoros 209
Out of the word and out of the picture? Keftiu and materializations of 'Minoans' / Uroš Matić 235
Designed surfaces / Ole Christian Aslaksen 255
About the authors 276
