Very Like a Whale
Menhirs, Motifs and Myths in the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition of Northwest Europe
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7700513 |
|---|---|
| Autores | A Whittle (0000-0001-6811-8724, Cardiff University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2000 |
| Volumen | 10 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 243-259 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774300000093 |
| OpenAlex | W2314421159 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 9 |
| Referencias citadas | 29 |
This article suggests that the rare motif on Breton menhirs often interpreted as an axe (of ‘Mané Rutual’ type) or an axe-plough, could be the representation of a whale, and that if so, this might be a mythic creature. The character of myth and narrative is considered. It is mooted that Late Mesolithic people or their immediate descendants could have been responsible for the erection of such menhirs. The juxtaposition of the suggested whale motif with versions of animals with curved horns on the broken menhir of La Table des Marchand and Gavrinis raises the possibility of alternative or competing myths and creation stories. Other representations of natural creatures in the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Europe are briefly noted, and the possible importance of myth in the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition of northwest Europe is discussed
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Creatures · Genealogy · Geography · Literature · Mesolithic · Motif (music · Mythology · Narrative · Natural (archaeology · Whale · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
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Representation of Humans and Animals in Greece and the Balkans during the Earlier Neolithic
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Intuition and analysis in the recording, interpretation and public translation of Neolithic engraved signs in western France
The materialization of religious structures in the time of stonehenge
Lives in fragments
Animated Images
Places Of Transformation
The Origin of Agriculture in Denmark
Norsminde
Statements in Stone
The Early Neolithic of Western France and Megalithic Origins in Atlantic Europe
Le Gardien Du Tombeau
Instruments of Conversion? The Role of Megaliths in the Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition in Northwest Europe 1
The Grand Menhir Brisé
A propos des fouilles de Gavrinis (Morbihan)
The Embarrassment of Riches
The genesis of megaliths
The transition to farming in Eastern and Northern Europe
Whales as an Economic Factor in Prehistoric Europe
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Some Abstraction for a Practical Subject
Seeing and Construing
Mesolithic Prelude
New excavations at Gavrinis
Subjective vision and the source of Irish megalithic art
Questions of epistemology and a working hypothesis about engravings of the 5th millennium in western France
Engendering Archaeology
Stonehenge for the ancestors
A pattern of evolution for the Neolithic funerary structures of the west of France
New radiocarbon dates from Bougon and the chronology of French passage-graves
Les Fouaillages and megalithic origins
Antlers, bone pins and flint blades
The Role of Time in Himba Valuations of Cattle
The Earlier Stone Age Settlement of Scandinavia
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| Citas por año | 0,39 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 9 |