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A FIELD METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING the DISTRIBUTION of ROCK ART
Author(s) -
BRADLEY RICHARD,
HARDING JAN,
RIPPON STEPHEN,
MATHEWS MARGARET
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00288.x
Subject(s) - rock art , settlement (finance) , archaeology , viewpoints , prehistory , field (mathematics) , geology , distribution (mathematics) , geography , art , visual arts , computer science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , world wide web , pure mathematics , payment
Summary: Recent studies of prehistoric rock art have analysed its position in the landscape and have suggested that it played an important role in a mobile pattern of settlement. But the distribution of petroglyphs is usually taken as given, with the result that it is difficult to assess the significance of this kind of patterning. We argue that such evidence should be compared with the distribution of uncarved rocks across the surrounding area, and illustrate this procedure by two case studies from northern England. In these examples rock carvings were carefully sited at viewpoints and may have overlooked important routes across the landscape.