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The Art of Assemblage: Styling Neolithic Art
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The art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland consists of a variety of curvilinear and geometric motifs pecked into stone (in open-air rock art or passage tombs) or carved into portable artefacts of chalk, stone or antler. Because of its abstract nature the art has proved problematic for archaeologists. Initially archaeologists assumed the art was representational; now most scholars have abandoned this view, and simply approach the art stylistically. Here I argue that stylistic analysis is insufficient to understand this art: instead the process of making provides a fuller understanding of this art. It is argued that the practice of assemblage is a key aspect of the process of making.
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“Neolithic art may have been not about representing reality but acting upon it, as a material operation on the world.”
From Art (Pre)History: Ritual, Narrative and Visual Culture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe (2020) · cites this paper as Jones 2017
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Knappett, C. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108554695 · Cited by 46
Jones, A. M., Díaz-Guardamino, M., & Crellin, R. J. (2016) · Norwegian Archaeological Review · doi:10.1080/00293652.2016.1227359 · Cited by 38
Self-citationArt (Pre)History: Ritual, Narrative and Visual Culture in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe
Robb, J. (2020) · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory · doi:10.1007/s10816-020-09471-w · Cited by 30
“But, as colleagues have pointed out (Jones 2017), representation may be the wrong way to understand Neolithic art.”
BackgroundGoldhahn, J. (2019) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108615150 · Cited by 27
Beyond the ‘thingification’ of worlds: Archaeology and the New Materialisms
Govier, E., & Steel, L. (2021) · Journal of Material Culture · doi:10.1177/13591835211025559 · Cited by 25
“The term assemblage is embedded in the archaeological mindset, with a very specific meaning (Conneller, 2017: 183; Hamilakis and Jones, 2017: 72; Lucas, 2017).”
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- Authors
- Jones, A. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jones, Andrew Meirion
- Venue
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2017-01-11
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 85-94
- ISSN
- 0959-7743 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-0540
- OpenAlex
- W2558044105
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 28 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 81.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge Archaeological Journal (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Keywords
- Neolithic art, rock art, passage tombs, open-air rock art, geometric patterns, abstract art, stylistic analysis, assemblage, Neolithic Britain, Neolithic Ireland
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