Time and Prehistoric Images
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Andrew Meirion Jones is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. He has taught and written extensively on the archaeology of art, particularly focusing on rock art and portable art and art-archaeology collaborations in decolonial museum contexts in Canada and the UK. He is currently working on the Formas-funded project 'Figuring Nämforsen' examining the role of images in deep time heritage contexts in northern Sweden.
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List of figures; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Imaging Time; Chapter 2 Images in the Making; Section I - The Making of Images -- Chapter 3 Repetition, erasure and the multiplicity of images: the slate plaques of the Isle of Man; Chapter 4 Time, Image and deposition; Chapter 5 Skeuomorphs: similarity, repetition and difference; Chapter 6 Carved stone balls: making, learning and differentiation; Chapter 7 Making Time in the Neolithic; Section II - Images and Time -- Chapter 8 Rock art, gesture and time; Chapter 9 Knowth in process: re-use, repetition and reworking; Chapter 10 Incompletion, repetition and ongoing. The art of the southern Scandinavian Bronze Age; Chapter 11 Deep Time Images. The Côa valley, Portugal; Chapter 12 Nomadic Images; Section III - Durational Images -- Chapter 13 Living Images; Chapter 14 Durational Images; Index.
