Signs of Place A Visual Interpretation of Landscape 1st Edition by Rebecca Döhl, Julian Jansen van Rensburg 3982067022 9783982067025

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ISBN 10: 3982067022 

ISBN 13: 9783982067025

Author: Rebecca Döhl, Julian Jansen van Rensburg

Throughout millennia people have created place from within space by using an array of different types of signs in a multitude of different environments. Signs that can give insights into the very different ways in which ancient people have interacted with their natural surroundings and how they included it into their social and ideological realms. Within this volume we focus on different implementations of the concept of signs and place and the broad field of meanings, associations, and definitions these interrelated terms cover. In so doing, the papers in this volume explore how different kinds of visual signs were positioned within the physical and morphological features of the landscape; how the landscape was chosen or modified to accommodate them; what value or information these signs provided for the place in which they were created; and how they have been socially, culturally, and spiritually appropriated over time.

Table of contents:

Signs of Place – A Visual Interpretation of Landscape
Rock Art in the Eastern Desert of Egypt – What a Spatial Approach Can Tell Us
Sacred Cavescapes of Socotra
Pictographic Mason Marks from Musawwarat es Sufra and Their Internal Spatial Distribution Patterns
`Placing’ a Maritime Territory at Hellenistic Miletos
Post-Actium Place Making: Octavian and the Ambracian Gulf
Rock-Cut Sanctuaries of Demeter and the Cultic Significance of Rocky Outcrops for the Cult of Demeter
The Traditional Linguistic Thought Manifested in Transversal Cultural Signs: Some Sumerian and Latin References for the Symbolic Meanings of the Riverine Landscape and the Metaphors of the Flood
The Appropriation of Space and Time through the Built Environment: The Case of the Las Pinturas Group at San Bartolo, Guatemala
Trajan’s Road: A Timeless Sign of the Romanian Plain

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