Amateur Archaeologist Author Rocks on with New Book
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Other ArchaeologyTHE eagerly-awaited second book by an amateur archaeologist is due to hit the bookshelves next month.Alan Walker is launching Rock Art and Ritual Volume Two: Mindscapes of Prehistory, next month.
Co-authored with Brian Smith, it builds on the first book which looked at where and why hunters and farmers from the neolithic and bronze age placed rock art.
Their labour of love had been sparked by a fire on North York's Ravenscar Moor in 2003 which had ravaged the landscape to reveal a prehistoric landscape and “Pandora’s box” of rock art for the budding archaeologists.
The first book was hugely successful, earning good reviews from key publications Prehistoric Society and Antiquity Magazine and was the best-selling book in its class on the Amazon website for several months.
But their latest effort looks to build on the argument further by taking their research and investigating rock art in a global context – in places such as Africa, Australia and South America.
Alan said: “The rock art we were looking at in volume one was speaking in a language that really was lost as land division and organised society developed.
‘‘Something that was special to mobile groups who used the landscape and understood the landscape in an almost organic way.
Rock Art and Ritual Volume Two: Mindscapes of Prehistory is available on pre-order from Amazon before its March 30 release date. Source: www.maltonmercury.co.uk/lifestyle.
Note: ‘‘We can’t claim to have unravelled the whole picture, we raised some issues that have never been tackled before and which should open new lines of debate and research.”
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