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Digital Imaging and Prehistoric Imagery: a new analysis of the Folkton Drums

Meirion Jones, Andrew and Cochrane, Andrew and Carter, Chris and Dawson, Ian and Díaz-Guardamino, Marta and Kotula, Eleni and Minkin, Louisa (2015) Digital Imaging and Prehistoric Imagery: a new analysis of the Folkton Drums. Antiquity, 89 (347). pp. 1083-1095.

Type of Research: Article
Creators: Meirion Jones, Andrew and Cochrane, Andrew and Carter, Chris and Dawson, Ian and Díaz-Guardamino, Marta and Kotula, Eleni and Minkin, Louisa
Description:

The Folkton ‘Drums’ are the most remarkable decorated artefacts from Neolithic Britain. A new analysis using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and photogrammetry (PG) reveals new evidence for previously unrecorded motifs in addition to plentiful evidence for erasure and reworking. A case is made for understanding the decoration of these chalk artefacts as an ongoing process of working involving experimentation. The authors also argue that such practices of making may have been more widespread in Neolithic Britain and Ireland. Additionally the study demonstrates the ability of these new techniques to not only record visible motifs, but to clearly document erased and reworked motifs.

Official Website: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X15001271
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Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: North Yorkshire, Neolithic, erasure, experimentation, reworking, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, photogrammetry
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: Cambridge
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > Central Saint Martins
Date: 9 October 2015
Digital Object Identifier: 10.15184/aqy.2015.127
Date Deposited: 27 Jan 2016 16:03
Last Modified: 28 Apr 2017 05:46
Item ID: 8102
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/8102

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