Andrew J Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3643028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON A J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
This chapter describes Lascaux, considered the most famous decorated cave in France. Lascaux contains an estimated 1,963 individual figures or motifs. Of the overall total, 915 figures depict animals, two-thirds of which can be identified. Almost all of the identifiable figures belong to just four groups of grazing mammals. Horses are depicted most frequently (364 representations), and make up slightly more than 60 per cent of all identifiable im…
Pech Merle, Lot, France
This chapter describes the cave of Pech Merle and its artwork. The images on the cave walls draw on the normal range of figures used in western Europe, but also have a distinct regional character. In total, Pech Merle contains images of twenty-eight mammoths, thirteen bison, twelve horses, seven aurochsen, five anthropomorphs, four deer and one megaloceros, two ibex, one bear, one lion, three imaginary animals, twelve human hands, and eight schem…
Niaux, Ariège, France
This chapter describes the cave of Niaux and its artwork. The Salon Noir contains most (83%) of the animal figures in the cave, together with a significant proportion (37%) of its abstract signs. With one exception, all the figures are painted black, and only a few of the signs are in red. The assemblage is dominated by large images of bison, forty-eight in total. However, horses and ibex, as well as a single stag, complement them.
Cosquer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
This chapter describes the cave known as La Grotte Cosquer and its artwork. A survey has identified 177 painted animal figures, including several large herbivores, such as horse, goat, bovids, and cervids. Around 216 individual signs have also been isolated, ranging from simple strokes to complex geometric symbols, and their relationships grade from being individual isolated marks to complex palimpsests, doubtless reflecting their (unknown) meani…
Tito Bustillo, Asturias, Spain
This chapter describes the cave of Tito Bustillo and its artwork. The cave's decorated areas include small groups of red paintings and engravings, with deer, bulls, a horse, an ibex, and various abstract signs; a group of paired lines, marks, and stains in red; a groups of spots along with a series of explicitly female symbols in red; four panels of signs, possibly including several club-shaped (claviform) symbols, and vertical lines, mainly in r…
Le Portel, Ariège, France
This chapter describes the cave of Le Portel and its artwork. The cave's walls are decorated with animal images and symbols, including bison, horses, a human figure, the antlers of a deer, and a red ‘fan’ (actually two concentric curves).
Painted Caves
Painted Caves, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe, charts historical background to the acceptance of a Palaeolithic age for the very ancient paintings found in caves. Offering an up-to-date overview of the geographical distribution of the sites found in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula, and examples known in Britain, Italy, Romania, and Russia, Lawson's expert study is not restricted to the art in …
A Noble Group of Barrows’
Two hundred years after William Cunnington and Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s excavations into Bronze Age barrows on Normanton Down, Wiltshire, we offer a fresh appraisal of this renowned cemetery, which lies within sight of Stonehenge. The paper focuses specifically on burial deposits of Early Bronze Age Period 3, seen as representing a dynastic succession that controlled access to Stonehenge for a while and presided over the ceremonies therein. Pre-e…
More time please
This further comment on Geoffrey Wainwright's retrospective 'Time please' (ANTIQUITY 74: (2000): 909-43) is written from the perspective of someone who has been actively involved in professional archaeology since the creation of the first county 'units' in 1973, who helped to promote a professional institute and its codes of contractual behaviour, and who has directed an independent Trust through the transition from state funding to private fundi…
Stonehenge
The preparation of an archive of all 20th-century excavations at Stonehenge and the re-analysis of these records has been commissioned by English Heritage. This note reviews the development of ideas on the phased construction of the monument and reveals the potential for the publication of a full account of the excavations
The Prehistoric Hinterland of Maiden Castle
Maiden Castle, situated 3km south-west of the centre of Dorchester, Dorset, is probably the best known Iron Age hillfort in Britain. Excavations by Sir Mortimer Wheeler were published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1943, and although he may have considered this report as incomplete his vivid interpretations caught the public imagination so that the results have found their way into archaeological texts and children's history books alike. The va…
Two Quoit-Headed Pins in the British Museum
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IV.—Shale and Jet Objects from Silchester
Silchester ( Calleva Atrebatum ) is the most extensively excavated of all Romano-British town-sites but the majority of the finds, now in Reading Museum, remain unpublished. Unfortunately these finds were not related stratigraphically to the site and therefore remained undated; insula and pit provenance is the most that was recorded, and then only occasionally, in the early years of excavation when the supervisors could find time
A Noble Group of Barrows’
Two hundred years after William Cunnington and Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s excavations into Bronze Age barrows on Normanton Down, Wiltshire, we offer a fresh appraisal of this renowned cemetery, which lies within sight of Stonehenge. The paper focuses specifically on burial deposits of Early Bronze Age Period 3, seen as representing a dynastic succession that controlled access to Stonehenge for a while and presided over the ceremonies therein. Pre-e…
Painted Caves
Painted Caves, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe, charts historical background to the acceptance of a Palaeolithic age for the very ancient paintings found in caves. Offering an up-to-date overview of the geographical distribution of the sites found in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula, and examples known in Britain, Italy, Romania, and Russia, Lawson's expert study is not restricted to the art in …
The Prehistoric Hinterland of Maiden Castle
Maiden Castle, situated 3km south-west of the centre of Dorchester, Dorset, is probably the best known Iron Age hillfort in Britain. Excavations by Sir Mortimer Wheeler were published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1943, and although he may have considered this report as incomplete his vivid interpretations caught the public imagination so that the results have found their way into archaeological texts and children's history books alike. The va…
IV.—Shale and Jet Objects from Silchester
Silchester ( Calleva Atrebatum ) is the most extensively excavated of all Romano-British town-sites but the majority of the finds, now in Reading Museum, remain unpublished. Unfortunately these finds were not related stratigraphically to the site and therefore remained undated; insula and pit provenance is the most that was recorded, and then only occasionally, in the early years of excavation when the supervisors could find time
Two Quoit-Headed Pins in the British Museum
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Prehistoric Hinterland of Maiden Castle
Maiden Castle, situated 3km south-west of the centre of Dorchester, Dorset, is probably the best known Iron Age hillfort in Britain. Excavations by Sir Mortimer Wheeler were published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1943, and although he may have considered this report as incomplete his vivid interpretations caught the public imagination so that the results have found their way into archaeological texts and children's history books alike. The va…
Stonehenge
The preparation of an archive of all 20th-century excavations at Stonehenge and the re-analysis of these records has been commissioned by English Heritage. This note reviews the development of ideas on the phased construction of the monument and reveals the potential for the publication of a full account of the excavations
More time please
This further comment on Geoffrey Wainwright's retrospective 'Time please' (ANTIQUITY 74: (2000): 909-43) is written from the perspective of someone who has been actively involved in professional archaeology since the creation of the first county 'units' in 1973, who helped to promote a professional institute and its codes of contractual behaviour, and who has directed an independent Trust through the transition from state funding to private fundi…
A Noble Group of Barrows’
Two hundred years after William Cunnington and Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s excavations into Bronze Age barrows on Normanton Down, Wiltshire, we offer a fresh appraisal of this renowned cemetery, which lies within sight of Stonehenge. The paper focuses specifically on burial deposits of Early Bronze Age Period 3, seen as representing a dynastic succession that controlled access to Stonehenge for a while and presided over the ceremonies therein. Pre-e…
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
This chapter describes Lascaux, considered the most famous decorated cave in France. Lascaux contains an estimated 1,963 individual figures or motifs. Of the overall total, 915 figures depict animals, two-thirds of which can be identified. Almost all of the identifiable figures belong to just four groups of grazing mammals. Horses are depicted most frequently (364 representations), and make up slightly more than 60 per cent of all identifiable im…
Pech Merle, Lot, France
This chapter describes the cave of Pech Merle and its artwork. The images on the cave walls draw on the normal range of figures used in western Europe, but also have a distinct regional character. In total, Pech Merle contains images of twenty-eight mammoths, thirteen bison, twelve horses, seven aurochsen, five anthropomorphs, four deer and one megaloceros, two ibex, one bear, one lion, three imaginary animals, twelve human hands, and eight schem…
Niaux, Ariège, France
This chapter describes the cave of Niaux and its artwork. The Salon Noir contains most (83%) of the animal figures in the cave, together with a significant proportion (37%) of its abstract signs. With one exception, all the figures are painted black, and only a few of the signs are in red. The assemblage is dominated by large images of bison, forty-eight in total. However, horses and ibex, as well as a single stag, complement them.
Cosquer, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
This chapter describes the cave known as La Grotte Cosquer and its artwork. A survey has identified 177 painted animal figures, including several large herbivores, such as horse, goat, bovids, and cervids. Around 216 individual signs have also been isolated, ranging from simple strokes to complex geometric symbols, and their relationships grade from being individual isolated marks to complex palimpsests, doubtless reflecting their (unknown) meani…
Tito Bustillo, Asturias, Spain
This chapter describes the cave of Tito Bustillo and its artwork. The cave's decorated areas include small groups of red paintings and engravings, with deer, bulls, a horse, an ibex, and various abstract signs; a group of paired lines, marks, and stains in red; a groups of spots along with a series of explicitly female symbols in red; four panels of signs, possibly including several club-shaped (claviform) symbols, and vertical lines, mainly in r…
Le Portel, Ariège, France
This chapter describes the cave of Le Portel and its artwork. The cave's walls are decorated with animal images and symbols, including bison, horses, a human figure, the antlers of a deer, and a red ‘fan’ (actually two concentric curves).
Painted Caves
Painted Caves, a beautifully illustrated introduction to the oldest art of Western Europe, charts historical background to the acceptance of a Palaeolithic age for the very ancient paintings found in caves. Offering an up-to-date overview of the geographical distribution of the sites found in southern France and the Iberian Peninsula, and examples known in Britain, Italy, Romania, and Russia, Lawson's expert study is not restricted to the art in …
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