Rock Art and the Wild Mind: Visual Imagery in Mesolithic Northern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367890551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 438 str.

Ingrid Fuglestvedt

Opis

Rock Art and the Wild Mind presents a study of Mesolithic rock art on the Scandinavian Peninsula, which often depicts human confrontation with big game and can be explained as a product of the Mesolithic mind "in action". In the final stages of the Mesolithic this ‘animic’ rock art eventually gives way to a ‘totemic’ style and it is suggested th

Spis treści

0/ ARCHAIC MEETINGS – A PROLOGUE; 1/ OBJECT AND OBJECTIVES; 2 / THE SETTING; 3/ NORTHERN EUROPEAN HUNTERS’ ROCK ART – PRODUCTS OF THE ‘WILD MIND’ IN ACTION; 4 / THE ‘KEY MOTEME’ AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS: VISUAL PATHS OF A LATE MESOLITHIC ANALOGICAL LOGIC; 5 / MEDIATING NATURE AND CULTURE OR, BODY DESIGN IN THE EASTERN NORWEGIAN GROUP OF HUNTERS’ ROCK ART; 6 / DESIGN PATTERNS AS AN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM OF REFERENCES; 7 / APPROACHING ROCK ART THROUGH ANIMISM AND TOTEMISM; 8/ "MEASURING" THE TOTEMIC IMPACT; 9/ THE MAPPING OF DESIGN PATTERNS OR, FRAGMENTS OF A TOTEMIC GEOGRAPHY; 10/ THE LATE MESOLITHIC ’LINES OF CONTACT’; 11 / LATE MESOLITHIC SEXE IN ROCK ART; 12 / ANIMISM AND TOTEMISM THROUGH TIME, AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SYMBOLIC GIFT

O autorze

Ingrid Fuglestvedt is a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Oslo, Norway.