(Ebook) Elevated Rock Art 1st Edition by Johan Ling ISBN 9781782977629

(Ebook) Elevated Rock Art 1st Edition by Johan Ling ISBN 9781782977629

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ISBN 13: 9781782977629
Author: Johan Ling

How may Bohuslän rock art and landscape be perceived and understood? Since the Bronze Age, the landscape has been transformed by shore displacement but, largely due to misunderstanding and certain ideas about the character of Bronze Age society, rock art research in Tanum has drawn much of its inspiration from the present agrarian landscape. This perception of the landscape has not been a major issue. This volume, republished from the GOTAC Serie B (Gothenburg Archaeological thesis 49) aims to shed light on the process of shore displacement and its social and cognitive implications for the interpretation of rock art in the prehistoric landscape. The findings clearly show that in the Bronze Age, the majority of rock art sites in Bohuslän had a very close spatial connection to the sea. Much rock art analysis focuses on the contemplative observer. The more direct activities related to rock art are seldom fully considered. Here, the basic conditions for the production of rock art, social theory and approaches to image, communication, symbolism and social action are discussed and related to palpable social forms of the “reading” of rock art. The general location and content of the Bronze Age remains indicate a tendency towards the maritime realm, which seems to have included both socio-ritual and socio-economic matters of production and consumption and that Bronze Age groups in Bohuslän were highly active and mobile. The numerous configurations of ship images on the rocks could indicate a general transition or drift towards the maritime realm. Marking or manifesting such transitions in some way may have been important and it is tempting to perceive the rock art as traces of such transitions or positions in the landscape. All this points to a maritime understanding of Bronze Age rock art in northern Bohuslän.

(Ebook) Elevated Rock Art 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Launching
Chapter 1: Introduction – the rock art phenomenon in northern Bohuslän
Introduction
“Finding the lost sea”
Aims
Temporal and spatial limitations
Chapter 2: A general picture of the Bronze Age in Bohuslän
Bronze Age conditions in Bohuslän
Investigations at rock art sites
Households and metallurgic activity
Graves
Bronze items and flint daggers
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Social landscapes
Introduction
Conclusion
Part II: Embarking
Chapter 4: The terrestrial paradigm: history of reseach
Introduction
Theory
Paradigm and thought style
Conditions and questions
A history of landscape and rock art research
The perception of geology and landscape among 19th century antiquarians
The landscape via the rock art image
The shore-connected rock art
Land uplift and the landscape
The image via the landscape
Modification of the terrestrial paradigm
The sea is advancing
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Rock art and seascapes in South Scandinavia
Introduction
West Norwegian rock art
Högsbyn in Dalsland
The Simris area in Scania
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Shore displacement, tides and altitudes
Introduction
The shore displacement phenomenon
Dating and estimating shore displacement
Shore displacement in Bohuslän
Aims and outcome of the new shore displacement studies in the Tanum and Kville areas
Altitudes and tides
Chapter 7: Rock art chronology and seascape in Bohuslän
Introduction
Rock art chronologies: traditions and concepts
Chronological standpoint
The analysis
The general setting of the rock art in relation to shore displacement
The specific chronological setting of ship features in the landscape
The Kungälv area (Solberga 50)
The Uddevalla area, Utby (Herrestad 58:1–5)
Maritime rock art at the Stångenäset isthmus (Bro 622, 636, Brastad 123)
The Sotenäset area (Tossene 107)
The Svarteborg area (Svarteborg 13)
The Kville area (Kville 172, 114)
The Tanum area, “Runohäll,” at Ryk (Tanum 311)
The vertical cliff at Tyft (Tanum 234)
A low-lying panel in the Kalleby area (Tanum 425)
The “Wismar and Kivik” panel in Kalleby (Tanum 427)
Rock art sites in the Orrekläpp area (Tanum 241, 369)
A tentative ship chronology of the landscape
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Modeling landscapes and seascapes in the Tanum area
Introduction
Aims
The landscape and Bronze Age in Tanum
Maritime models of the Vitlycke area (Tanum 1, 833)
The Aspeberget area – a maritime aggregation site? (Tanum 17, 19, 120)
Terrestrial landscapes and images at Tanum 33
Sea shores and rock art in the Tegneby area, Bostället (Tanum, 48, 61–64, 105:3, 345, 346 and 490)
Ships and seascapes at Skatteklåvan in the Tegneby area (Tanum 65–67)
Embarking and disembarking by Bro Utmark (Tanum 192)
Reconstructing Tanum 311– a maritime approach
Maritime positions in the Kyrkoryk and Ryk area (Tanum 213, 216, 217, 219, 321, 325, 335, 336)
Revisiting the vertical cliff at Tyft (Tanum 236)
Landscapes and seascapes in the Kalleby area (Tanum 425, 427, 419, 944, 420, 421, 418, 417)
Concluding remarks
Part III: Social and Maritime praxis
Chapter 9: Social practice and rock art
Introduction
Background
Ships in rock art, in graves and on bronze items
The production of rock art
Social practice, analogies and fictions
Ideology and social theory
Material and spiritual production
Palaeolithic rock art and Marxism
Later Marxist approaches
Rock art between practice and structure
Images, symbols and social action
Image, speech, social praxis and social communication
The symbological project
The social dimension of rock art images
Depictions of social environments and actions
Depictions of social positions and social rhetorics
Depictions of “iconic” features or elements
Concluding remarks
Chapter 10: From terrestrial ships to war canoes
Introduction
Background
General features of the rock art ships
General outcome of the proportional study; codes of dimension
The Early Bronze Age ship images
The Late Bronze Age ship images
The Pre Roman Iron Age ship images
Depictions of social realities
Helmsmen and steering rods
Depictions of social and ritual positions
Warriors, acrobats, adorants, and lure blowers
Spatial and social aspects of the ship
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Rock art and society
Introduction
The concept of chiefdom and the Bronze Age
“Too many chiefs and not enough Indians”
Ideas of social transformation during the Early Bronze Age
Chiefdoms during the Late Bronze Age
Rock images of chiefs, aggrandizers, commoners or girots?
Material and ecological conditions of Bohuslän Bronze Age social formations
Praxis, production and ideology
Fishing
Maritime trade, barter, communication
Maritime warfare
Maritime rituals and ceremonies
Boat-building
Discussion
Dual social praxis, positions and transitions in Bronze Age Bohuslän
Conclusions
Chapter 12: Maritime transitions
Introduction
Rock art in a maritime zone
Maritime transitions and rituals by the sea
Rock art and maritime mobility
Rock art as a traveler’s picture
The sea in the rock and the rock in the sea
The ships on the rocks
Maritime performances
Coda
Part IV: Disembarking
Chapter 13: Summary
Towards a maritime understanding of rock art in northern Bohuslän
Chapter 14: References
A–Ö
Personal communications
Chapter 15: Appendix
Appendix 1: Measured rock art sites from Bohuslän

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