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Issue No 4: Autumn 2010

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RRRoooccckkkAAArrrtttiiicccllleeesss Issue No. 4: Autumn 2010

Dear All,There is a definte Autumn nip in the air, but for rock art hunters the shorter days also mean that the sun is nice and low tocatch those elusive cups and grooves! This issue of Rock Articles sees two new rock art projects underway, RAMP inNorthumberland, and CSI: Rombalds Moor in West Yorkshire plenty of opportunities to get involved!

A new section is included this time: Inspired by Rock Art. Any creative folk out there who would like to share their work arewelcome to send contributions to me at the email address below.

Finally, Im very sad to report the ill health of a great supporter of British rock art, Jan Brouwer. Along with Gus van Veen, Jancreated the British Rock Art Collection website and the British Rock Art Blog. Both sites provide an excellent focus for rock artimages and discussions, and fans will be pleased to hear that following treatment, Jan hopes to be back at his desk updatingthe sites and pursuing his passion for rock art.

Kate

October [email protected]

Contents:

New British Discoveries:selected finds from around Britain ...................................................................... 1

Quartz and Cobbles on Tayside: recent discoveries at Ben Lawers............................................................ 2

Cup-Links: some quick links to useful sites to keep you in the picture ..........................................................2

World Rock Art on the Web: international news and links.........................................................................3

Pores for Thought: high tech methods used to determine porosity of rock art surfaces in situ....................4

Peculiar Portables: is it rock art? .............................................................................................................. 5

RAMP update: the latest from the Rock Art Mobile Project ..........................................................................6

Get Involved: a newvolunteering opportunity in West Yorkshire.................................................................7

Featured Panels: new recordings of megalithic art .....................................................................................8

Dates for your Diary: forthcoming conferences, day schools, and other events........................................... 9

Inspired by Rock Art: creative responses to cup and ring marks ................................................................ 9

Rock Art Reads: new and forthcoming publications .................................................................................. 10

NEW BRITISH DISCOVERIESA small selection of the many new discoveries made recently around Britain.

Isles of ScillyFieldwork associated with the English Heritage funded Lyoness Project hasidentified previously unrecorded rock art on the island of Samson (uninhabitedsince 1855). Team member Dan Charman spotted an unusual mark pecked on anative granite boulder on the foreshore. The cigar-shaped image, approximately30cm x 10cm is divided by a natural fissure. The carving lies close to a number ofarchaeological sites of different periods, but just a few metres away are two pitscontaining 136 sherds of pottery from two Neolithic Carn Brea type vessels.Image credit: Charlie Johns.

Read more at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past064.pdfProject blog: http://Lyonesseproject.wordpress.com

IngleboroughAlthough this isnt a recent discovery, it wasnt published until 2008. Its in an areanot generally associated with rock art, and hasnt been widely publicised so isperhaps worth highlighting here. In 1999 members of the IngleboroughArchaeological Group, Arthur Batty and Noel Crack identified cup-marks on threeadjacent gritstones within a 3m2 area, close to the footpath leading to LittleIngleborough, NW of Cote Gill. A fourth marked stone was found to the E of CoteGill, with several cup-marks, some with rings. A further stone with several parallelgrooves was also identified, possibly a polissoir? The full report of the discoverywith colour photographs is available at:http://www.ingleborougharchaeologygroup.org.uk/Rock%20Art.pdf

(Image reproduced with kind permission of Arthur Batty)


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QUARTZ AND COBBLES ON TAYSIDE

Excavations at rock art sites on the Ben Lawers estate in the Southern Highlands of Scotland produced exciting results thissummer, reported by Richard Bradley, Aaron Watson and Alex Brown in the Prehistoric Society newsletter, PASThttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past065.pdf. They found that the more ornately carved rocks were associated with deposits ofbroken and flaked quartz, which appeared to be focused around the decorated surfaces. This mirrors similar finds around rockart panels at Torblharen in Argyll by Andy Jones and his team. At the foot of the largest decorated rock they uncovered a layerof cobbling containing worked and broken quartz. This was located at the only point from which an observer could see theimages on top of the stone. The cobbles also sealed a relict land surface and analysis of pollen samples from above and belowthe structure revealed that the rock carving was situated in open grassland which was probably used as upland pasture. Thesite would have commanded the same extensive view along and across the loch as it does today.

Image credit: Aaron Watson

CUP-LINKS

Some quick links to blogs, databases, and image collections to put you in the picture with British rock art.

Englands Rock Art: website and database with information and images of Englands rock art, currently covering

Northumberland and County Durham, but soon to be extended.http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era

Beckensall Archive:website anddatabase with information and images of Northumberland Rock Art based on thearchives of Stan Beckensall.

http://rockart.ncl.ac.uk/

Rock Art Mobile Project:one year project at Newcastle University aiming to deliver digital information to visitors atrock art sites in North East England, making the experience more engaging and more informative. See page 6 of thisissue.

http://rockartmobile.wordpress.com

http://twitter.com/RockArtMobile

CSI: Rombalds Moor: new volunteer-led recording project in West Yorkshire, with records to be added to theEnglands Rock Art (ERA) database. See page 7 of this issue

http://csirm.wordpress.com

British Rock Art Blog:forum for discussion about prehistoric rock art in the British Islands since 2006.

http://rockartuk.wordpress.com

British Rock Art Collection:extensive collection of images of British rock art.

http://rockartuk.fotopic.net/

British Rock Art on Flickr:images and discussion on rock art in the British landscape.http://www.flickr.com/groups/rockartbritishlandscape/


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WORLD ROCK ART on the WEB

This issue brings you a round up of links to rock art conferences from summer 2010.

IFRAO Congress BLOG

If you were unable to get to the International Federation of Rock Art Organizations (IFRAO)Pleistocene Art of the World Congress which was held in France at the beginning ofSeptember, fear not. The National Geographic blog site, NatGeo Newswatch, covered the eventwith daily reports from the sessions by Andrew Howley. The conference, which took place atTarascon-sur-Arige, France, marked the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the cavepaintings in Lascaux, and drew together experts from around the world.

Mysteries of Prehistoric Rock Art Probedhttp://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/09/mysteries-of-prehistoric-rock.html

Finding Pictures and Meaning in Rock Arthttp://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/09/new-way-of-looking-at-art-and.html

Walking Into the Stone Agehttp://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/09/walking-into-the-stone-age.html

Cracking the Code in the Rockshttp://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/09/cracking-the-code-in-the-rocks.html

Rock Spirits at the Portals to Afterlife

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/09/rock-spirits-at-the-portals-to.html

Vandals damage 1,000 year old Keyhole Sink petroglyphs in Arizona

A public call has been made for information relating to the vandalism of themain rock art panel at Keyhole Sink (named for the keyhole-shaped lavaflow) on the Kaibab National Forest in Coconino County, northernArizona. The attacks, which occurred in August this year, werereported by hikers. The word "ACE" has been written in whatappears to be white paint over the petroglyphs.

"This senseless act not only damaged the fragile rock art, itdegraded a special place enjoyed by several thousand visitors eachyear," said Kaibab National Forest archaeologist Neil Weintraub. ErinWoodward, also from the National Forest commented: "Non-renewable, historic resources, such as petroglyphs and pictographs,can be easily damaged. So, it is important that each visitor tonational forests be respectful of the cultural resources in the areaand leave them as found for future generations to enjoy." Image credit: Kaibab National Forest

In the US, the petroglyphs are protected under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979. If thedamage is more than $500, the penalty for a first offense is up to two years in prison and $20,000 in fines. A

second offense carries penalties of up to five years in prison and $100,000 in fines. The Forest Service hasdocumented the damage and is assessing its monetary value.

The group that made the petroglyphs are known as the Cohonina, likely ancestors of the Hopi, Hualapai andHavasupai tribes that inhabited the Parks area. The bear paws, snakes and lizards in the rock art panel aresimilar to Hopi clan symbols. The panel also depicts an ancient hunting scene.

For more, see The Megalithic Portal: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=27038

Or read local the news story at http://www.williamsnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=10570

New rock art sites added to the World Heritage List

At the 34th session of The World Heritage Committee meeting in Brazil earlier this year, 21new sites were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. These included the prehistoriccaves Yagul and Mitla in the centre of the valley of Oaxaca (Southern Mexico). Some ofthese shelters have yielded archaeological remains and rock art that are a testimony of thefirst farmers settled. Other rock art sites to be listed by the World Heritage Organizationare Gobustan, Azerbaijan (added in 2007), Tamgaly, Kazakhstan (2004), the IberianPeninsula, Spain (1998), and Alta, Norway (1995).

For more information on all these sites visit the World Heritage Centre (WHC) athttp://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1352/


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PORES for THOUGHT: High Tech Methods used to Assess Porosity of Rock Art Surfaces in situ

In a ground-breaking new study, researchers at Nottingham Trent University are developing non-invasive methods ofmeasuring the porosity of rocks, and they are applying the technology to rock art in situ. A combination of three techniques,Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and Portable Remote Imaging System forMultispectral Scanning (PRISMS) will be used by researchers Dr Haida Liang, Dr Martin Bencsik, and Elizabeth Bemand to assessthe subsurface of the rock.

Porosity is one of the things that govern the physical strength of the rock surface, and affects the susceptibility of rock art to

decay. Previous methods have been dependent on using samples and so are not appropriate for repeated monitoring of rock artpanels. In the new study, samples will be collected non-destructively from cairns at the sites of rock art panels. These sampleswill be artificially weathered and porosity monitored using the three non-invasive techniques. The results will be compared tonaturally weathered samples, and to rock art panels in situ to help develop an understanding of the progression of porositychanges due to weathering. This information will then be used to assess the vulnerability and estimate the longevity of rock artpanels, and so inform conservation plans.

Many thanks to Elizabeth Bemand for info and images.

Fig 1: OCT cross-section of sandstone sample with freshly cut top surface.

Fig 2: Pores identified from OCT cross-section in Fig 1.

Fig 3: OCT cross-section of sandstone sample with naturally weathered top surface.

Fig 4: Pores identified from OCT cross-section in Fig 3.

Figure 5: OCT Probe (left), and PRISMS (right)


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PECULIAR PORTABLES

Very now and then, strange carved stones appear which defy categorisation within the traditional corpus of cup and ringmarked stones. Here is a selection from the last couple of years.

SMALLEST ROCK ART MOTIF?

In July the Telegraph reported a very tiny (Britains smallest?) example of

rock art which had been found on a small slab at the bottom of a quarry inCambridgeshire. The tiny concentric cup-and-ring motifs measure just a fewcm across! Rock art is relatively scarce in the south of England but thepossibility that the pattern has a natural origin (e.g. a fossil) has apparentlybeen ruled out. Christopher Evans from Cambridge Universitys Archaeological Unit suggests that it is a doodle made by bored Neolithicpeople with time on their handsWhat do youthink?

Read more in the Telegraph online athttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7894635/Worlds-oldest-doodle-found-on-rock.html

Image credit: Chris Evans.

MESOLITHIC MARKER?

A programme of excavation work in the Vale of Pickering in North Yorkshire has revealed some interesting finds. Fieldwork atthe Mesolithic site at Flixton School House Farm on the shore of a palaeo-lake (Starr Carr lies 3km away on the opposite shore)is ongoing, but discoveries from the 2009 season included an unusual fragment of worn red mineral (ca. 5.5 cm x 4.5 cm) thathad been incised with short overlapping lines, possibly to extract material for use as a pigment. You can see a picture of thestone and read more about the excavations and discoveries at Flixton, in an article by Barry Taylor (who is studying the site asapart of his PhD research at the University of Manchester) in The Prehistoric Society newsletter, PAST 63, athttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past063.pdf

THE WEIRDSTONE OF WICKLOW: Is it rock art?

A peculiar carved stone was discovered at the Valleymount/Baltyboys

excavation in March 2010 by Chris Corlett and Martin Reid, reported by Martinin the Summer 2010 issue ofArchaeology Ireland. They found the stone closeto the foundations of an early Neolithic house. The dark stone, measuring 5cmx 5cm x 1.5cm had been water-rolled at the edge of a reservoir. It has arounded side, and a flattened side with a central cup-mark, 1.2cm in dia. and0.5cm deep. A slightly flattened, D-shaped ring surrounds the cup. This in turnis surrounded by a narrow line which is broken in two places: the first breakmay be natural, but the second appears central to the flat side of the D andtwo small indentations of ca. 2mm dia. (micro-cups?) are present in the gap.The possibility that the markings may be a fossil have been discounted, as hasthe suggestion that the stone functioned as a socket stone (no wear), an oillamp, part of a mould, an anvil, or a point of rotation for a fire-stick or bow.

Read more and see the picture in: Reid. Martin, 2010. A Curious Stone.Archaeology Ireland, Summer 2010.

Image credit: Martin Reid.

ORKNEY ODDITY

In 2008 a stone slab with unusual pecked motifs was found at Green, a Neolithic site on the south coast of the Isle of Eday.The stone was found near the entrance of a stone building which was part of a more extensive settlement. The sandstone slab,57cm x 32cm, appears to be a broken fragment of a larger panel. It is decorated with a number of unusual designs including atriangle, a circle, and horned or spectacled spiral, and other meandering grooves. Beneath the pecked motifs (and probablypre-dating them) are incised lines which appear to be focused on the pecked triangle. They include parallel lines, triangles, andtraces of a lattice, and do not appear to be a pattern for the pecked designs.

Read more about the stone at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past065.pdf


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RAMP Update

The Newcastle University Rock Art Mobile Project (RAMP), funded by the Arts and Humanities ResearchCouncil, aims to deliver digital information to visitors at rock art sites in North East England, making theexperience more engaging and more informative, without the need for extensive information panels orwasteful paper leaflets.

Local input

Local people have recently taken part in a series of workshops in Rothbury and Wooler designed to help the RAMP Team

understand how people engage with the rock art in the landscape, what information would enhance their visit, and how theymight prefer to access that information. The workshops have been a great success and we have now started to process all theinformation gathered. The next stage will be to combine all the great comments and reflections from the workshop participantswith the data and images in the Englands Rock Art (ERA) database (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/), and use them todevelop a series of concept prototypes. These will be evaluated by participants in a second round of workshops before the finalproduct is produced which could potentially transform the way the rock art and the surrounding landscape is experienced.

Fig 1: Workshop participants consider Weetwood 3a

Technology

New team member Debbie Maxwell, who has expertise in IT design, hasbeen investigating available technologies, and looking at existingapplications for mobile phones. This included a fascinating visit to Cragside,a National Trust property near Rothbury which was the home of Lord Armstrong. The NT team there are experimenting with a new way todeliver information to visitors using Sony Play Stations! To find out moreabout the Cragside project visit the RAMP Blog athttp://rockartmobile.wordpress.com

Rock art tends to be found in locations which are challenging for this typeof technology, with limited network availability, and often exposed tostrong winds; visitors bring a variety of handsets with different potential.RAMP is aware of all these issues and we will be seeking to achieve apractical solution which will be accessible to as many people as possible.

Fig 2: Workshop participant brushing the panel (with soft bristles!) atLordenshaw (Image credit: Debbie Maxwell)

Location, Location, Location

Three suitable rock art locations have been identified as being relatively stable and able to withstand potentially increasedvisitor numbers. The sites likely to be used are: Lordenshaw near Rothbury, Weetwood Moor near Wooler, and Dod Law,near Doddington. These were selected in consultation with local heritage agencies, and based on information regarding theircurrent state of conservation and future threats which was collected by volunteers participating in the Northumberland andDurham Rock Art Project (NADRAP).

If you have any thoughts about rock art and mobile phones or would like to get involved please call Debbie or Kate on 01912225566 or email us at [email protected] or [email protected]. Follow progress on the RAMP Blog athttp://rockartmobile.wordpress.com and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RockArtMobile

This project is funded by AHRC (AH/H037608/1)


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GET INVOLVED: A new volunteering opportunity in West Yorkshire

CSI: Rombalds Moor Carved Stone Investigations in a Watershed Landscape

The excellent work begun by volunteers in the Northumberland and Durham Rock Art Project (NADRAP) in creating theEnglands Rock Art (ERA) database (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/era/), will continue thanks to a new initiative in WestYorkshire. Earlier this year Pennine Prospects* was awarded a HLF grant of 1.9 M towards the Watershed Landscapes Projectwhich is also in receipt of Leader funding. This is a wide ranging project covering 5 major themes, one of them being

the Historic Environment. This involves the appointment of a Community Archaeologist, Gavin Edwards, and funding for anumber of smaller projects to record aspects of the historic environment across the South Pennines.

One of these projects involves the recording of the carved stones of Rombalds Moor, and we are pleased to announce that,following a tendering process, the project was awarded to a bid submitted by the team who managed the NADRAP Project:Tertia Barnett, Kate Sharpe, and Richard Stroud. This means that all the methodology developed by the NADRAP volunteers,and all the valuable lessons learnt during the pilot project can now be applied to a new region. It also means that the ERAdatabase will be expanded beyond the North East, with an anticipated further 800 records created by trained volunteers. Thesenew records will be consistent with the existing data, allowing better comparison and analysis between regions. The applicationof photogrammetry, one of the most exciting developments to come out of the NADRAP work will provide an accurate andobjective baseline record of the current state of the rock art panels, and help to develop management priorities for the future.

The Rombalds Moor Area has a strong history of local, amateur involvement in rock art recording with key figures includingStewart Feather, Edward Vickerman, and Keith Boughey. The database, drawings, and photographs compiled by the IlkleyArchaeology Group will form the basis of the new records, just as the Beckensall Archive provided a strong foundation for the

NADRAP project.

Idol Stone (Image credit: Richard Stroud)

How to get involvedThe new project will kick off with a public event on 6 Nov 2010 in Ilkley (see Dates for your Diary), with a day ofpresentations explaining the project background and methodologies. Recruitment will be via an application form, available atthe event, or from Gavin Edwards [email protected]. For more information please check out the projectblog site at http://csirm.wordpress.com.

*Pennine Prospects was established in 2005 to support the regeneration of the South Pennines. The company is owned by the key localauthorities, water companies, Natural England and voluntary/community sector. For more information seehttp://www.pennineprospects.co.uk/


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FEATURED PANELS: Painting the panel technique reveals new megalithic art

Since 2002, a team of researchers led by George Nash (Bristol University and Adam Stanford (Archaeology Safaris and Aerial-Cam) has been carrying out an extensive survey of Neolithic and Bronze Age Monuments in North Wales and North WestEngland. The Anglesey Rock Art Project (ARAP) revealed new carvings at the Late Neolithic passage graves of Barclodiad yGawres and Bryn Celli Ddu, and the destroyed monument at Cromlech Farm. Outside Anglesey new discoveries were made atthe (probable) Middle Neolithic double chambered stone monument of Dyffryn Ardudwy near Harlech (Nash & Stanfordforthcoming) and, in 2006 the team were commissioned by Merseyside Archaeological Society to record photographically the

Calderstones monument, revealing previously unrecorded marks on the stones.

Barclodiad y Gawres, Anglesey

Barclodiad y Gawres survives as a partly reconstructed circular moundwith an entrance (unusually) at the north leading to a 7m north-southpassage and central gallery with three antechambers. It has finely-pecked rock art on six of the 22 upright stones. Since 2009, the ARAPteam has identified a further set of finely pecked motifs on the easterngallery pillar (Stone L8) and on the upper ridge of the back wall of theeastern antechamber (Stone C3). The discoveries were made usingoblique movable lighting in front of a camera fixed to a tripod. Thesurvey team found a series of faint, pecked parallel lines and up tothree concentric circles on Stone L8. Two of these very faint motifswere hidden under 20th century graffiti. On Stone C3 a linear row oftriangles, cut into the upper ridge of the stone, were alsodiscovered. Several weathered cup marks were also identified on top ofthe capstone that partially covers the southern chamber, along withfurther cup marks on two uprights that form the northern section of thewestern chamber.

Anglesey Rock Art Projecthttp://www.archaeology-safaris.co.uk/project-arap.html

Fig 1: Tracing faint peck marks at Barclodiad y Gawrres

The Calderstones, Liverpool

The Calderstones comprise six highly decorative stones (A to F). Recording methodologyemployed during sessions in October and December 2007 included photographic techniquesutilizing controlled lighting or what the team term painting the panel. The survey, undertakenmainly during darkness hours, recorded a number of new motifs including a dagger that isindicative of the Bronze Age rock art tradition in Galicia, north-western Spain. A similar dagger

was recorded by one of the authors at the Fentns site in the Campo Lameiro Valley, near theprovincial town of Ponteverda. Bradley et al. (1994) has identified imagery within this valleyand has proposed a plausible landscape narrative whereby the rock art panels act asprocession markers, drawing big game such as red deer through a proscribed route.

The careful and systematic recording of all these new motifs and where they sit within thepanel narrative will provide researchers with the potential to reappraise these striking,enigmatic symbols of a long distant past where every event, performance and aspect ofeveryday life was probably steeped in ritual.

Thanks to George Nash and Adam Stanford for the information and images.

Fig 2: The complex panel design on the rear face of Stone D. Located within the central lower

section of the face is a SE European-style dagger.

References:

Bradley, R., F. Criado Boado, and R. Fbregas Valcarce. 1994. Rock art research as landscape archaeology: a pilot study inGalicia, north-west Spain. World Archaeology. 25(3): 374-390.

Nash, G. H., C. Brook, A. George, D. Hudson, E. McQueen, C. Parker, A. Stanford, A. Smith, J. Swann and L. Waite 2005. Noteson newly discovered rock art on and around Neolithic burial chambers in Wales.Archaeology in Wales45: 12-16.

Nash, G. H. & Stanford, A. 2007. New megalithic art within the Neolithic passage grave of Barclodiad y Gawres. Rock ArtResearch24: 257-260.

Nash, G.H. & Stanford, A. 2009. Newly discovered megalithic art at the Neolithic chambered monument of Dyffryn Ardudwy

North Wales (NGR SH 5887 2294). Rock-art Research. Vol. 26(1): 101-105.

Nash, G. and Stanford, A. 2010, Encryption and display: Recording new images on the Calderstones in Liverpoolin Barnett, T.and Sharpe. K. (eds) Carving a Future for British Rock Art, Oxbow, Oxford.


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DATES for your DIARY: Forthcoming Conferences and Events

If you have an event you would like to publicise here please send me the details.

31st OctoberArchaeology in the Lake District 2010 (organised by the National Park), Keswick.Held at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick. Fee: 11 (16.75 including lunch). Parking voucher 2.

Topics include: landscape survey of Sizergh Castle, Longhouse structures in the Lake District, submerged forests at Eskmeals,and historic boats in the Lake District.For details and booking forms see:http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/index/learning/archaeology/archaeologynewsandevents/archaeologyevents/archaeologynews.htm

6th NovemberCSI: Rombalds Moor. Carved Stone Investigations in a Watershed LandscapeHeld at Church House, All Saints Parish Church, Church Street, Ilkley.Free entry. This event launches this new volunteer-led project to create a base-line record of the carved stones on RombaldsMoor. The project team and other experts will provide an introduction to British rock art, an overview of the current state ofrock art recording, and will present details of the methodology to be used and roles to be filled for the project. Audiencemembers will be invited to apply to join the team by application.For further details contact Gavin Edwards at [email protected]

20th NovemberSouth Yorkshire Archaeology Day (South Yorkshire Archaeology Service)Held at the Showroom cinema, only a short walk from Sheffield bus and train station. Fee: 10 (5 concessions). Additionalsandwich lunch option available at 6.25 per head. Booking by 8.11.10 essential.This annual day school presents the results of recent excavation and research within South Yorkshire. For more informationcontact David Marsh at Development Services, Sheffield City Council, Howden House, 1 Union Street, Sheffield, South YorkshireS1 2SH, tel 0114 273 4223, webwww.sheffield.gov.uk/planning-and-city-development/urban-design--conservation/archaeology/arch-day.

27th NovemberWest Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, 10th Annual Day SchoolHeld at Royal Armouries, Leeds. Fee: 12.The morning programme will bring delegates up to date with the results of recent archaeological work in West Yorkshire, bothabove and below ground as well as details of the work of the Portable Antiquities Scheme's West and South Yorkshire's FindsLiaison Officer. The afternoon programme will focus on what archaeology can tell us about food and dining in Roman, Medievaland Post-Medieval eras. Presentations will also be made by the Friends of Buck Wood, who will be talking about their recent

excavations and exciting discoveries at Buck Wood, near Idle in Bradford. For more information contact Becky Harlow, tel 0113344 1681, [email protected], webwww.archaeology.wyjs.org.uk/.

INSPIRED by ROCK ART

Rock art inspires many different creative responses. If you have produced something rock art related and would like to share itwith Rock Articles readers, drop me a line [email protected].

IIIImagine this manmagine this manmagine this manmagine this man

Imagine this blokeBack in the old days, likeYou know, ages agoAnd hes passing throughLooking for mammoths and whatnotFruit and berries and hell, water!Well, what was he thinkingWhen he stopped in this dip of the scarpAnd pulled out his trusty flintAnd carved these cups and rings?

.he thought, ah sod it,Ah can nivver git the buggerProperly round, like, you know,Round as the friggin Moon.

Still, eh?Mebbe next time!

Will Wordspeck, 2010.Rock art created in the snow by Pete Style, 2009.


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ROCK ART READS: New and Forthcoming Publications

Carving a Future for British Rock Art: New Directions for Research, Managementand Presentationedited by Tertia Barnett and Kate Sharpe, Oxbow Books

Its finally here! Its a while since this book was featured in Rock Articles Issue 1but it is nowavailable.

From the Oxbow website:Over the last few years, the ways in which we perceive and documentrock art have shifted irreversibly. This volume makes a powerful case for an archaeology thatintegrates rock art into a wider vision of the past. It brings together the experiences and informedopinions of the key organizations and stakeholders responsible for the conservation, managementand accessibility of British rock art. An on-going and exciting period of change is documented hereand the main issues that underpin the survival of our prehistoric carved heritage are addressed.

ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-364-0 ISBN-10: 1-84217-364-2, 240p, 111 b/w & colour illus, 15 tablesPrice: GB 65.00 (Hardback)http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/86309

Changing Pictures: Rock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost Europeedited by Ingrid Fuglestvedt, Joakim Godlhahn and Andrew Jones, Oxbow Books.

From the Oxbow website:Changing Pictures aims to return to traditional interpretative

notions regarding the meaning and significance of rock art to investigate if and why anyinformation had been left behind to recover and rethink. By reassessing traditionalapproaches to Scandinavian rock art and creatively reworking these ideas, whilst alsoaddressing significant new concepts such as the agency of rock and the performativity of rockart, this anthology of papers offers not only a snapshot of current debates, but also reflectspivotal changes in the study of rock art.ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-405-0; ISBN-10: 1-84217-405-3.Paperback: 272p 159 b/w & colourillus.

Price: GB 38

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/88232

World Rock Art: The Primordial Languageby Emmanuel Anati.

From the Oxbow website:This volume is a basic introduction to rock art studies. It marks thestarting point of the new methodology for rock art analysis, based on typology and style, firstdeveloped by the author at the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici. This book demonstratesthe beginnings of a new discipline, the systematic study of world rock art. This edition is arevised and updated version of Anarti's classic text, first published in English in 1993.Emmanuel Anati was heavily involved with the UNESCO and ICOMOS assessments into thestate of world research into rock art. Here he presents some of his thoughts and feelingsabout these two commissioned reports, about the types of research carried out in rock artstudies, changing goals within these studies and the future for the field of study.

ISBN-13: 978-1-905739-31-8; ISBN-10: 1-905739-31-1. Paperback: 160p, 162 b/wPrice: GB 19.95http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/26698

The Rock Art of Norwayby Trond Lodoen and Gro Mandt, Windgather Press.

From the Oxbow website:In Norway, rock art has been found at more than 1100 sites.Many motifs occur regularly across the region, others are unique to certain sites. The designand composition of even the most common motifs vary hugely in different parts of the countryaccording to both the era and function of the particular site...Whether the images of thehunter nomads and the farmers represent two distinct and independent traditions, or whetherthey represent a continuous tradition encompassing changes in expression over time, is stilltoday an unresolved issue. This book raises questions about the meanings that can be derivedfrom the rock art of Norway and aims to study the images in the context of other traces foundof the same society. Through the sites explored and the stories told, this book represents avoyage in time and space from the oldest images to the youngest, from farthest north tofarthest south of thecountry.

ISBN-13: 978-1-905119-28-8; ISBN-10: 1-905119-28-3. Paperback, 344p, col illus throughout.Price: GB 25http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/85691

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