Output details
17 - Geography, Environmental Studies and Archaeology
University of Cambridge : A - Archaeology
Book title
L’Architecture des Signes. L’Art Pariétal des Tombeaux Néolithiques autour de la Mer d’Irlande
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Presses Universitaires de Rennes
ISBN of book
9782753509610
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This is a new study of passage tomb art and its context through spatial analysis, looking at 634 carved stones from 89 sites in Ireland, Wales, North-western England and the Orkney Islands. The database comprises published carvings and new recordings (at Irish sites) produced with an innovative photographic technique. Three scales of analysis are presented: a study of the combinations of signs; relationships between signs and the stone supports; relationships between signs and tomb architecture. The outcome of these analyses is the discovery of a new set of different 'grammatical rules' organising the art into space
