Visual culture in Neolithic South East Italy

Skeates, R.G.

Visual culture in Neolithic South East Italy

Skeates, R.G.

Authors

Professor Robin Skeates robin.skeates@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

P. Attema
Editor

A. Nijboer
Editor

A. Zifferero
Editor

Abstract

This paper examines transformations in the form and significance of visual material in Neolithic Apulia. It is argued that ‘portable art’ was increasingly valued as ritual paraphernalia, gifts and status symbols, which were circulated, accumulated, displayed and sacrificed in growing quantities. It is also argued that ‘installation art’ became increasingly important, particularly in linking key places to particular groups and their ancestors. Some long-term symbolic ‘themes’ are also identified. One may have referred to concerns about the definition of social identities and relations, while another may have referred to concerns over the demarcation, control and sharing of the landscape and its economic resources.

Citation

Skeates, R. (2005). Visual culture in Neolithic South East Italy. In P. Attema, A. Nijboer, & A. Zifferero (Eds.), Papers in Italian archaeology VI : communities and settlements from the neolithic to the early medieval period (541-544). Archaeopress

Publication Date	Dec 1, 2005
Deposit Date	May 10, 2016
Publicly Available Date	May 12, 2016
Publisher	Archaeopress
Pages	541-544
Series Title	BAR international series
Series Number	2
Book Title	Papers in Italian archaeology VI : communities and settlements from the neolithic to the early medieval period.
Publisher URL	http://www.barpublishing.com/papers-in-italian-archaeology-vi-communities-and-settlements-from-the-neolithic-to-the-early-medieval-period.html