Archaeology of Art

Andrew Meirion Jones is Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK. He has both taught and written extensively on the archaeology of art, particularly prehistoric rock art. His most recent books include ‘An Animate Landscape’ (Windgather, 2011), ‘Prehistoric Materialities’ (OUP, 2012) and ‘Archaeology after Interpretation (Left Coast Press, 2013) edited with Ben Alberti and Josh Pollard. He is currently completing a Leverhulme funded project using digital imaging to examine the remarkable art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland. Andrew Cochrane is a Lecturer in Archaeology, Cardiff University, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Previously, he was Project Curator at British Museum, and worked on several major exhibitions, including The Power of Dogu (British Museum: 2009), unearthed (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: 2010), and Ice Age Art (British Museum: 2013). His most recent books include: ‘Visualising the Neolithic’ (Oxbow Press, 2012) edited with Andrew Jones, and ‘Art and Archaeology’ (Springer, 2014) edited with Ian Russell.

• ContentsChapter 1 – Excavating Art Andrew Meirion Jones Chapter 2 – The archaeology of Art: practice, intra-action and affect Andrew Meirion Jones Chapter 3 – Making and marking Andrew Meirion Jones Chapter 4 - Experimentation, Performance, Improvisation Andrew Meirion Jones Chapter 5 – Miniaturisation and scale Andrew Cochrane and Andrew Meirion Jones Chapter 6 - Cognition, perception, affect: colour and light Andrew Cochrane and Andrew Meirion Jones Chapter 7 – Assembly and disassembly Andrew Cochrane Chapter 8 - Style, technology, and process Andrew Meirion Jones Chapter 9 – Meaning and mattering Andrew Meirion JonesChapter 10 - Materials, Process, Image: the art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland Andrew Cochrane and Andrew Meirion JonesChapter 11 - Archaeology through the looking glass: photographic documentation and the politics of display Andrew CochraneChapter 12 – Art in the Making Andrew Meirion Jones

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