An animate landscape - Andy M Jones

The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded
as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains a number
of barrow cemeteries, stone alignments, stone circles and a
henge. With over 250 individual rock art sites, it also has the
greatest concentration of prehistoric rock art in the British
Isles and some of the most impressive rock art sites.
An Animate Landscape
contains the results of a major research project that included excavations of two sites, Torbhlaren and Ormaig, and the
analysis of radiocarbon dates to produce a more coherent
chronological context, as well as taking a broader interpretative
approach to the landscape. The book argues that the rock art is
an active part of the process of socialising the landscape, in
which the landscape became more organised from the Late Neolithic
onwards, and that this organised landscape relates to broader
cosmological concerns. The book is richly illustrated with colour
drawings and photographs done by a series of artists to produce a
unique visual record of the rock art and its place in the
landscape, alongside more traditional archaeological enquiry.