Into the labyrinth/ Rock art on a very big scale

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fitzcoraldo Nov 13, 2007 10:05:46
Replying to tiompan

Hi G.
I share your misgivings, I guess it’s a bit like the Bullaun question, multi period sites yield multi-period artifacts.
I’ve had a wee trawl around the WWW and come up with these
The Natural History Museum has an image of the Big Zajatsky Labyrinth which it labels Neolithic
http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=72188&frm=ser&search=neolithic
A couple of sites mention a carving on a Sardinian rock cut tomb (Domus de Janas), there is some dispute of the age of the carving as once again you have multi-period activity. There is a good account here
http://www.labyrinthos.net/luzzanas35.htm
There’s a nice account of Indian labyrinths here, once again there is debate over their antiquity
http://www.labyrinthos.net/indialabs.htm

There's a lot more if you are prepared to trawl through a fair old bit of new age cobblers, which I'm not.

fitz

T tiompan
tiompan Nov 13, 2007 20:47:55
Replying to fitzcoraldo

fitzcoraldo wrote:
Hi G.
I share your misgivings, I guess it’s a bit like the Bullaun question, multi period sites yield multi-period artifacts.
I’ve had a wee trawl around the WWW and come up with these
The Natural History Museum has an image of the Big Zajatsky Labyrinth which it labels Neolithic
http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?img=72188&frm=ser&search=neolithic
A couple of sites mention a carving on a Sardinian rock cut tomb (Domus de Janas), there is some dispute of the age of the carving as once again you have multi-period activity. There is a good account here
http://www.labyrinthos.net/luzzanas35.htm
There’s a nice account of Indian labyrinths here, once again there is debate over their antiquity
http://www.labyrinthos.net/indialabs.htm

There's a lot more if you are prepared to trawl through a fair old bit of new age cobblers, which I'm not.

fitz

Thanks Fitz ,
To be fair to those that claim a Neolithic date for labyrinths ,it is difficult to date RA whether in association with other monuments /artefacts or not, but I am still not convinced . The motif is very "stiff" and needs to be reproduced pretty closely to remain the same motif neither of which is an attribute of British RA .