reprints

[georgejayne]

Dear Alice,

I wonder if could circulate this amongst the bone tools group. I am looking
for people who may be interested in submitting a paper.

best wishes,

George.

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Things that move and things that don't: Theortical perspectives in
European Portable and Static Art.


Session organiser:  George Nash, Centre for the Historic Environment,
University of Bristol, England


SESSION ABSTRACT
Within Europe, there is a high material culture that transcends both time
and space.  Rock-art and portable art [or mobile  art] assemblages extend
from the Palaeolithic to the present and are found throughout Europe. This
assemblage includes representative (e.g. anthropomorphic and zoomorphic
imagery), as well as stylistic and abstract art forms which has been placed
within a broad European chronology.  However, in the past, the
archaeological record has tended to ignore this rich cultural heritage.
More importantly, the mechanisms that potentially control and manipulate the
art is rarely discussed.  However, a number of thought provoking theoretical
and philosophical studies recently undertaken by Choyke & Bartosiewicz
(2001), Fischer 1995, Nash & Chippindale (2001) and Price (2001) has
attempted to draw together this high material culture and integrate it with
social, political and economic framework.  In some cases, these approaches
have taken the staleness from a period such  as the Mesolithic which has, in
the past been considered to be rather functional and devoid of any symbolic
meaning or activity.

The session will be an interdisciplinary concern, drawing theoretical
perspectives from a wide range of art-based studies, focusing on the
underlying structures that control and manipulate society which in turn
determines the style and form of the art.  An emphasis will be placed on
studies that draw on anthropology, structural and post-structural
approaches.

Key words: static art, portable art, social, political, economic, high
material culture

REFERENCES

Choyke, A.M. & Bartosiewicz, L. (eds.) 2001. Crafting Bone: Skeletal
Technologies through time and Space. BAR International Series 937.

Fischer, A. (ed.) 1995. Men and Sea in the Mesolithic: coastal settlement
above and below present sea level.  Oxford.  Oxbow Books monograph 53.

Nash, G.H. & Chippindale, C. (eds.) 2001.  European Landscapes of Rock-art.
London. Routledge.

Price, N. (ed.) 2001.  The Archaeology of Shamanism. London. Routledge.

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>From: alice <h13017cho at helka.iif.hu>
>To: BONETOOLS at LISTSERV.IIF.HU
>Subject: reprints
>Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 5:11 pm
>

>Dear Contributors,
>        David Davidson writes that they are behind in printing the off-
>prints but that eventually each of you should receive 20 copies of
>your article.
>
>All the best,
>Alice
>