TY - CHAP
T1 - Archaeomorphological Mapping
T2 - Rock Art and the Architecture of Place
AU - Delannoy, Jean-Jacques
AU - David, Bruno
AU - Gunn, Robert George
AU - Geneste, Jean-Michel
AU - Jaillet , Stephane
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Understanding the rock art of a cave or rock shelter requires positioning the art in its landscape setting. This involves both spatial and temporal dimensions because a site’s layout changes through time, necessitating an examination of site formation processes. In this chapter, the authors present a new approach—archaeomorphology—that unites archaeological and geomorphological methods to explore the history of the objects and spaces that make up a site. Archaeomorphological mapping allows researchers to track through time the changing configuration of sites, including rock surfaces, the morphogenic forces at work, and, with this, the changing spatial contexts of the art on its surfaces. Archaeomorphology shifts attention away from the site as a ‘natural’ canvasupon which inscriptions were made to its social engagement as an actively constructed architectural and performative space.
AB - Understanding the rock art of a cave or rock shelter requires positioning the art in its landscape setting. This involves both spatial and temporal dimensions because a site’s layout changes through time, necessitating an examination of site formation processes. In this chapter, the authors present a new approach—archaeomorphology—that unites archaeological and geomorphological methods to explore the history of the objects and spaces that make up a site. Archaeomorphological mapping allows researchers to track through time the changing configuration of sites, including rock surfaces, the morphogenic forces at work, and, with this, the changing spatial contexts of the art on its surfaces. Archaeomorphology shifts attention away from the site as a ‘natural’ canvasupon which inscriptions were made to its social engagement as an actively constructed architectural and performative space.
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190607357.013.57
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190607357.013.57
M3 - Chapter (Book)
SN - 9780190607357
SP - 833
EP - 856
BT - The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art
A2 - David , Bruno
A2 - McNiven, Ian J.
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford UK
ER -