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Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context
Edited by Paul Pettitt, Paul Bahn, Sergio Ripoll, and Francisco Javier Muñoz Ibáñez
312 pages
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131 in-text illustrations
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234x156mm
978-0-19-929917-1
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Hardback
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29 March 2007
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- Presents the first British cave art to be discovered in its full European context
- Comprehensively illlustrated, enabling comparisons to be made between different sites
- Specially written papers reflect a new understanding of the Palaeolithic period in Britain
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.Readership: Palaeolithic archaeologists and prehistorians; cave art specialists and art historians; readers interested in the regional history of South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire.
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Edited by Paul Pettitt, Lecturer in Human Origins, University of Sheffield, Paul Bahn, Independent researcher, Sergio Ripoll, Lecturer in Archaeology at the Spanish Open University (UNED) in Madrid, and Francisco Javier Muñoz Ibáñez, Spanish Open University (UNED) in Madrid Contributors:
Paul Bahn
Alistair Carty
Andrew T. Chamberlain, University of Sheffield
Robert Dinnis, University of Sheffield
Claire Fisher, University of Sheffield
Mabs Gilmour, Open University
Roger Jacobi, The British Museum
Antonio Nartinho
Baptista, Centro Nacional de Arte Rupestre, Portugal
Antonio Pedro Batarda Fernandes, Parque Arqueologico do Vale do Coa, Portugal
Cesar Gonzalez Sains, University of Cantabria, Spain
Michel Lorblanchet
Yves Martin
Francisco J. Munoz, UNED, Madrid
Margherita Mussi, University of Rome
Paul Pettitt, University of Sheffield
Genevieve Pincon
Sergio Ripoll, UNED, Madrid
Derek W. Yalden, University of Manchester
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"In archaeological terms, let alone the cave-relevant subject matter, this was an incredibly important gathering and the book an equally important outcome." - Chris Howes, Descent, Vol. 197 "Reading this book leaves you marvelling at the astonishing skill of the authors in seeing what generations of visitors to Creswell Crags have missed" - Chris Catling, Current Archaeology
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1: Paul Pettitt: Prologue
2: Paul Bahn: The historical background to the discovery of cave art at Creswell Crags
3: Sergio Ripoll and Francisco J. Munoz: The Palaeolithic rock art of Creswell Crags: prelude to a systematic study
4: Alistair W. G. Pike, Mabs Gilmour, and Paul Pettitt: Verification of the age of the Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags
5: Alistair Carty: 3D laser scanning at Church Hole, Creswell Crags
6: D. W. Yalden: Zoological perspectives on the Late Glacial
7: Andrew T. Chamberlain: Cave archaeology and palaeontology in the Creswell region
8: R. M. Jacobi: The Stone Age archaeology of Church Hole, Creswell Crags
9: Paul Pettitt: Cultural context and form of some of the Creswell images: an interpretative model
10: Yves Martin: The engravings of Gouy: France's northernmost decorated cave
11: Margherita Mussi: Palaeolithic art in isolation: the case of Sicily and Sardinia
12: Michel Lorblanchet: The horse in the Palaeolithic parietal art of the Quercy: outline of a stylistic study
13: Genevieve Pincon: A topographical approach to parietal figures: the monumental sculptures of the Roc-aux-Sorciers (Vienne, France)
14: Cesar Gonzalez Sainz: Dating Magdalenian art in North Spain: the current situation
15: Antonio Martinho Baptista and Antonio Pedro Batarda Fernandes: Rock art and the Coa Valley Archaeological Park: a case study in the preservation of Portugal's prehistoric rupestral heritage
16: Claire Fisher and Rob Dinnis: Rewriting the history books: the Magdalenian art of Creswell Crags
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