The Economy of Dürrnberg-Bei-Hallein: An Iron Age Salt-mining Centre in the Austrian Alps

For the first time in English, we present a summary of the international programme of excavation work carried out between 1990 and 2001 in and around the Iron Age salt-mining complex of the Diirrnberg region, south of Salzburg. First we describe the results of excavation in the prehistoric adits, and of work to locate and survey associated settlements. This is followed by a series of specialist reports embracing floral and faunal remains, palaeodiet and parasitology, leather and woodworking and other crafts. The evidence suggests that a complex inter-relationship existed between the Diirrnberg and other communities in the Alpine foreland. It is assumed that the Diirrnberg was under the control of an elite - perhaps a local dynasty whose wealth is reflected in the grave

The Dreamers Awake: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art

A mere twenty years ago most people thought of contemporary Australian Aboriginal arts and crafts as primarily the production of bark paintings and boomerangs, mostly for the tourist trade, or as the European-style watercolour landscapes of the Aranda artists from the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission east of Alice Springs, of whom the best-known was Albert Namatjira (1902-1959). Collecting Western institutions were generally museums whose interest was primarily in the ethnographic aspects of the art. Since then there have been some remarkable developments in both quantity and range, at a rate which makes any description or analysis likely to be out of date as soon as it is written. In this, Australia’s Bicentennial year, Aboriginal art has become one of the prime ways of asserting the continued and distinct identity of Fourth World people where, unlike the Third World, the colonizers never went home

The earliest insular Celtic art : Some unanswered questions

Since Arthur Evans first discussed the nature of insular Iron Age art in 1895, the links between the British Isles and the Continent in the pre-Roman period have been part of the accepted canon of Celtic studies. Much less certain, however, have been the attemps to demonstrate the mechanisms by which such assumed links have been transmitted. Thus, while there is general acceptance of the contributions made by the “Vegetal” (Waldalgesheim) and “Sword” sub-styles, there is a continued lack of precise definitions of these sources as they appear in insular art. This paper reviews the relevant literature of the past 40 years, noting that the list of proven early continental imports remains small and often problematic. On the other hand, the results of recent work in the so-called «Arras» culture region of north-eastern England confirms that this area was producing material which is probably as early as any other insular La Tène art in the British Isles.Le premier art celtique insulaire : quelques questions sans réponse. Depuis qu’Arthur Evans a, le premier, discuté de la nature de l’art insulaire de l’Age du Fer, en 1895, les relations entre les Iles Britanniques et le Continent à l’époque pré-romaine sont restées un acquis reconnu de l’archéologie celtique. Cependant, il y a moins de certitude dans les tentatives qui ont été faites pour mettre à jour les mécanismes dans lesquels ces relations supposées auraient fonctionné. Par exemple, tandis que l’on s’accorde en général sur les apports des styles “végétal” (Waldalgesheim) et “des épées”, on continue de regretter l’absence de définitions précises pour ces modèles tels qu’ils apparaissent dans l’art insulaire. Cette communication passe en revue brièvement la bibliographie des quarante dernières années, en remarquant que la liste des importations continentales anciennes assurées reste réduite et souvent problématique. D’autre part, le résultat des études récentes faites sur la zone de la “culture d’Arras”, dans le Nord-Est de l’Angleterre, confirme que cette région avait une production probablement aussi ancienne que tout autre art laténien des Iles Britanniques.Megaw John Vincent Stanley, Megaw Ruth. The earliest insular Celtic art : Some unanswered questions. In: Etudes Celtiques, vol. 28, 1991. Actes du IXe Congrès international d’études celtiques Première partie. Les Celtes au IIIe siècle avant J.-C. pp. 283-307

A Celtic mystery: some thoughts on the genesis of insular Celtic art

Oxford, U

From Durer to Dolly Daniels: a partial history of the Flinders University Art Museum

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