Rock Art and Imagery
Here are some scholarly articles and books on rock art and other types of imagery.
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Books
Tredimensionell dokumentation av hällar och hällbilder i Uppland
by: Fredrik Fahlander (ed.)
Stockholm: Univ, 2023.
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Bildbruk i mellanrum. Mälarvikens hällbilder under andra årtusendet fvt
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Stockholm: Univ, 2018.
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Encountering Imagery. Materialities, Perceptions, Relations
Edited by: Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Fredrik Fahlander & Ylva Sjöstrand
Stockholm: Univ, 2012.
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Articles
The Faceless Men. Partial bodies and body parts in Scandinavian Bronze Age rock art,
By Fahlander, F.
Published in Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledge,
O. Moro Abadía & M. Porr (eds), London: Routledge 2021.
The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: I-M Back Danielsson & A. M. Jones (eds), Images in the making: Art-Process-Archaeology
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2020)
The Stacked, the Partial, and the Large. Visual Modes of Material Articulation in Mälaren Bay Rock Art
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: K. I. Austvoll, M. Hem Eriksen, L. Melheim, L. Prøsch-Danielsen & L. Skogstrand (eds), Contrasts of the Nordic Bronze Age. Turnhout: Brepol (2020)
Fantastic Beings and Where to Make Them. Boats as Object-Beings in Bronze Age Rock Art
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Current Swedish Archaeology vol 27: 191-212. 2019.
Size Matters: Hyperbolism in South Scandinavian Rock Art
by Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Fennoscandia archaeologica, XXXVI: 53-67. (2019)
Petroglyphs as 'contraptions' - Animacy and vitalist technologies in a Bronze Age archipelago
by: Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Time and Mind vol 12(2): 109-20. 2019.
The Mediality of Rock and Metal. Exploring Formal Analyses of Rock Art through Graffiti,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: D. Gheorghiu and T. Barth (Eds.), Artistic Practices and Archaeological Research, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp 31-40 (2019)
The relational life of trees. Ontological aspects of "tree-ness" in the Early Bronze Age of Northern Europe
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Open Archaeology, 4(1): 373-385 (2018)
Materiella bilder: Visuella uttryck bland Mälarvikens hällbilder
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: 13:e nordiska bronsålderssymposiet, (Red: Sophie Bergerbrant and Anna Wessman), Göteborg: Univ. 2017
The skin I live in. The materiality of body imagery
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Own and be owned, Archaeological perspectives o the concept of possessions A. Klevnäs & C. Hedenstierna-Johnsson (eds), Stockholm, 2015, pp49-72.
Magiska Tatueringar,
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Sjömanstatueringar M. Arnshaw (ed), Sjöhistorisk rapport 48, Stockholm: Medströms/Statens Maritima Museer, 2014.
Articulating Relations: A non-representational view of Scandinavian Rock-art,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Archaeology after Interpretation. Returning Materials to Archaeological Theory. Alberti, B., Jones, A. & Pollard, J. (Eds), Left Coast Press. 2013.
Den materiella dimensionen: Indexikala relationer av storlek och materialitet,
By Fredrik Fahlander
In: Primitive Tider 15:7-20 2013
Articulating stone. The material practice of petroglyphing,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Encountering Imagery. Materialities, Perceptions, Relations, I.-M. Back Danielsson, F. Fahlander, & Y. Sjöstrand (Eds), Stockholm: Univ. (2012).
Imagery beyond representation,
By I.-M. Back Danielsson, F. Fahlander, & Y. Sjöstrand
Encountering Imagery. Materialities, Perceptions, Relations, I.-M. Back Danielsson, F. Fahlander, & Y. Sjöstrand (Eds), Stockholm: Univ. (2012).
Articulating Hybridity. Structurating situations and indexical events in North-European rock art,
By Fredrik Fahlander
Matters of scale. Processes and courses of events in archaeology and cultural history, Nanouschka M. Burström & Fredrik Fahlander (Eds.), Stockholm: Univ. (2012)
Laserdokumentation och analys av hällristningar
By Fredrik Fahlander
Published in: Mimers Brunn - arkeologi etnologi och historia i Västra Götaland, No 2, 2008, pp8-9.