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tiompan wrote: bawn79 wrote: tiompan wrote: CianMcLiam wrote: I guess you already know the megalithic art at Knowth will be published in its own volume after the report on the excavation of the main mound, which is due in the next year or so. So with Newgrange already being very well documented by Claire O'Kelly that leaves Dowth, though the O'Kellys did publish the carvings in a shorter paper that is much harder to come across. Would be great to see it all together at some point, might be overload in one publication though! Eogan also had a paper in a local journal here on some of the rock art in Co. Meath this year or last which was very helpful for me as it revealed the locations of some pieces that had been moved about. No I didn't know about the forthcoming Knowth book .At last . Why has it taken so long ,any suggestions ? What was the Eogan paper ? Sorry a surfeit of ??? Bloody hell it would be one huge book covering all together. (For some reason it brought to mind the megatron remote controller in PeepShow) Plus research is ongoing in Bru na Boinne. Just saw the laser photographing they did of Knowth in last months Archaeology Ireland. So maybe the reason they havent published is because they aren't finished what with new technologies allowing them to revise previous studies. Cian would probably know a bit more about it than I would. Apart from the few new discoveries at Knowth in 1996 and any later ones the corpus has been limited to some pages in the Eogan book (1986) and pics on the web of the kerb or those that we have got ourselves . It seems like a long time without even a good collection of just a fraction of the engravings within the monument . I suppose with all the work done at Knowth by O'Sullivan, Shee Twohig, Eogan and others after the Newgrange book was published demonstrated that a simplified approach just drawing the carvings as they appear is probably not giving a proper representation of what we are dealing with at Knowth. There are so many layers and contexts (art that has been re-used or just hidden etc.) that it probably makes more sense to present the different stages more clearly that just lumping everything together in one drawing as at Newgrange. I don't know how this will be approached in the final volume but I guess it is something that needs to be addressed carefully, since the art at Newgrange has so often been read as a single phase phenomenon with a single explanation, rather than an evolving tradition or maybe even the results of clashes in traditions. As for presenting all of this in one book or series, I guess that would be an enormous and difficult task if it involves re-assessing all the art at Newgrange and Dowth in a way consistent with how the art at Knowth is to be presented. The resulting work would be probably be hugely expensive to create as well as to purchase, it will be interesting to see how the results of the laser scanning will be used. I will look up a full reference for the Eogan paper on Meath rock art for you too. Reply | with quote |  10th November 2012ce 12:32 In reply to: Re: Newgrange book (tiompan) |
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