Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin
Valdez-Tullett, Joana, Barnett, Tertia, Robin, Guillaume and Jeffrey, Stuart (2022) Revealing the Earliest Animal Engravings in Scotland: The Dunchraigaig Deer, Kilmartin. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. pp. 1-27. ISSN 0959-7743
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Creators/Authors: | Valdez-Tullett, Joana, Barnett, Tertia, Robin, Guillaume and Jeffrey, Stuart | ||||||
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Abstract: | The recent discovery of animal carvings in the Early Bronze Age burial cairn at Dunchraigaig (Kilmartin Glen, Scotland) prompts a re-evaluation of current knowledge of rock art in Britain. The deer and other quadrupeds represented in the monument are the first unambiguous depictions of prehistoric animals of prehistoric date in Scotland, and among the earliest identified in Britain and Ireland. This contrasts with the well-known abstract carvings of rock art in this region, characterized by cup-marks and cup-and-rings. The discovery also reinforces the special character of Kilmartin Glen as one of the most original and remarkable Neolithic–Bronze Age landscapes of monumentality and rock art in Britain. This article describes the process of authenticating the Dunchraigaig carvings as part of the Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP) and discusses their implications for our understanding of prehistoric rock art in Scotland, Britain and Atlantic Europe more widely. | ||||||
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000312 | ||||||
Output Type: | Article | ||||||
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Archaeology, Rock Art, Scotland, Dunchraigaig | ||||||
Schools and Departments: | School of Simulation & Visualisation | ||||||
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Status: | Published | ||||||
Funders: | AHRC | ||||||
Identification Number: | First View, pp 1-27 | ||||||
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Projects: | Scotland's Rock Art Project (ScRAP) | ||||||
Copyright and Open Access Information: | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence 4.0 Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research | ||||||
Output ID: | 8666 | ||||||
Deposited By: | Stuart Jeffrey | ||||||
Deposited On: | 10 Jan 2023 09:31 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2023 15:54 |