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Books by Andrew Cochrane

Routledge 2017 Co-authored with Andy Jones (Southampton)

Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in... more Prehistoric imagery is enigmatic and has been largely overlooked by archaeologists; it is only in the last two decades that it has garnered serious academic attention. This volume addresses this lacuna and discusses visual expression across Neolithic Europe. The papers in this volume result from a meeting of the Neolithic Studies Group on the topic of 'Neolithic visual culture' at the British Museum in November 2010. The intention of the meeting was to assess new studies of rock art from across Britain and Ireland, and to compare these with studies of Neolithic visuality from continental Europe. Here, the scope of the original meeting is widened, and includes further papers to provide a broader context and more coherent analysis of prehistoric expressionism. The volume is organised so that the rock art and passage tomb art traditions of the Neolithic in Britain and Ireland are compared for the first time to the rock art traditions of Northern and Southern Europe, with the mortuary costumes and figurines of South-eastern Europe.

This book accompanied the exhibition 'unearthed' at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the U... more This book accompanied the exhibition 'unearthed' at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (22 June - 29 August 2010). The volume is intended not just as an exhibition catalogue but as a meditation on excavation and archaeological endeavour. The authors invite the reader, spectator, and exhibition viewer to take up the job of archaeologist, wrestling with unexpected evidence, opinion and comparanda. The book explores previous interpretations of figurines and dogu, along with modern work by artists, photographers, and philosophers who have struggled with the paradoxes inherent in making miniature worlds and of expressing the human body in art, as well as figurines and dogu-like objects from the modern world. Once you have sifted these evidences and worked through the array of comparisons, you will be in a position whereby you can make your own decision about what dogu and figurines do, about how they worked, and indeed, about how todays archaeologists should study them.

This thesis seeks to take the motifs on Irish Passage tombs beyond their traditional role as pass... more This thesis seeks to take the motifs on Irish Passage tombs beyond their traditional role as passive epiphenomenon and furthers understands them as performing active roles in the Neolithic. Rather than view the images through a textual representational analogy, I utilise visual cultural and neurological studies, set within a worldview perspective to paint a picture of the possible ambiguities of life and belief at some passage tomb locations. I explore the richness of evidence from the archaeological data and literature, to move beyond previous positions, and suggest new ways to deal with a past that develops multiple narratives. Such an account is thick with paradoxes, similarities, differences, tensions, emotions, life, death, pleasures and pain. Visions, context and belief layered together often generate ruptures in daily life that can facilitate new imaginings within the rhythms and sequences of images. Within such a perspective the Irish passage tomb motifs present fresh conditions for possibility and diverse understanding.

In combining broader and more fine-grained analysis of particular passage tomb sites located in the north, east and south of Ireland, I demonstrate that social complexities operate at all scales. Magnified via cosmological perspectives, images on passage tombs interact with spectators through two-way intimate engagements. The assemblages that accompany the motifs are not static, instead they display notions of material animacy. Humans do not control all these interactions, for the motifs and objects are dynamic montages. These actions can be enhanced via process, such as the sequential nature of some images or by the application of liquid solutions, especially when conducted at particular times and places. With passage tombs acting as ‘stages’ and ‘islandscapes’, I construct interpretations that include both carnivalesque and axis mundi environments, which subvert, disrupt and perpetuate social beliefs. Such performances may have created dialogues and myths about the specialness of these places. These conversations would in turn factor and texture new illusions and simulations of the world, whilst creating fresh opportunities for experience.

This volume is the product of a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session (held at L... more This volume is the product of a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session (held at Lampeter, Wales, in December 2003) entitled Mentalités and Identities in Motion. Included here are all the papers held there, and more besides. The session centred on the role of past ways of thinking, feeling and acting in social transformation, and exploring past worldviews as (instead of being relegated to the ‘fictional’ or anecdotal) an integral part of every aspect of human life, not just explicit contexts of power struggles and domination, but also approachable from the material evidence. The contributions are widely spread across space and time, ranging from Northern Ireland to Sicily, from France to Bulgaria and covering almost every period from the Mesolithic to the Thirty Years’ War.

Papers by Andrew Cochrane

2023. Light Struck - the exhibition. Lacock: National Trust. , 2023

2023. Light Struck - the exhibition. Lacock: National Trust.

A declaration We declare the importance and the need to express theoretical concepts in a format ... more A declaration We declare the importance and the need to express theoretical concepts in a format which is not constrained by linguistic context. We will express theory which is often written in English and turn to the visual as a means of promoting a visuality of archaeological theories, methodologies and narratives. This simultaneously acts as an invitation for practitioners who feel constrained themselves by this discourse in archaeological theory to seek to transcend linguistic cultural barriers by embracing the visual. Such endeavours have far-reaching ramifications for the tension between non-academic (public) and academic (expert) discourses (if indeed it is possible or appropriate to make these separations). Actions will pose further questions; for instance, can we ask what the implications for value and meaning are in archaeological presentations?; will archaeological science be deemed less ‘hard ’ by its inclusion in abstract and unquantifiable visual expressions?; how will...

Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Ian Alden Russell Andrew Cochrane.- Part I. Exploration and Ex... more Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Ian Alden Russell Andrew Cochrane.- Part I. Exploration and Experimentation.- 2. Colin Renfrew: A conversation.- 3. The cave and the mind: Towards a sculptural and experimental approach to Upper Palaeolithic art Andrew Meirion Jones, University of Southampton.- 4. Joining Forces: Neuroaesthetics, contemporary visual art and archaeological interpretation of the past Liliana Janick, University of Cambridge.- 5. Interface I: Day of the Figurines IRAC.- Part II. Curation and Exhibition.- 6. Art and Archaeology: The Abhar agus Meon exhibition series Ian Alden Russell, Brown University.- 7. Art and Kilmainham Gaol: Negotiating art's critical intervention in the heritage site, Pat Cooke, University College Dublin.- 8. Another proof of the preceding theory: Film, materialities and Stonehenge Helen Wickstead, Kingston University, London.- 9. Interface II: Home: An installation for living in Christine Finn, Independent Scholar.- Part III. Application and...

The effect of local defect resonance (LDR) on the nonlinear ultrasonic response of defects is stu... more The effect of local defect resonance (LDR) on the nonlinear ultrasonic response of defects is studied and applied for enhancement of sensitivity of nonlinear ultrasonic NDT. As the local vibration amplitude increases, the LDR-"amplifier" exhibits transition to nonlinear regime with an efficient generation of nonlinear frequency components solely in the defect area. The concept of the defect as a nonlinear oscillator brings about different dynamic and frequency scenarios characteristic of parametric oscillations. The experiments confirm unconventional nonlinear dynamics of simulated and realistic defects subject to LDR. The nonlinear modes observed include sub-and superharmonic resonances with anomalously efficient generation of the higher harmonics and subharmonics. A modified version of the superharmonic resonance (combination frequency resonance) is used to enhance the efficiency of frequency mixing mode of nonlinear NDT. A strong localization of the resonance nonlinearity is applied for high-contrast imaging of defects in composite materials.

Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2007

Is archaeology a science? Is archaeology a humanity? What are the politics of spectatorship and a... more Is archaeology a science? Is archaeology a humanity? What are the politics of spectatorship and archaeological representation? These initial thoughts form the basis for our archaeological explorations. Within current archaeological discourse, there are a growing number of requests for expressions, which illuminate and expose the interpretive and artistic qualities of presentation and narration. Yet few scholars actively utilize expressive practice to explore these philosophical issues. As such, we feel that it is an opportune time to intervene in visual and textual discourse by issuing a manifesto for our project. We call for a development of a critically reflexive practice of visual archaeological expressionism, which seeks to contest traditional modes of thought and action.

Art and Archaeology, 2013

On 15 December 2007, IRAC intervened in the meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group at The K... more On 15 December 2007, IRAC intervened in the meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group at The Kings Manor, University of York. One hundred-fifty replica Cycladic figurines were placed in the building and its grounds. In the days that followed, some figurines were moved, some destroyed, some stolen, some collected, and some disappeared completely. Few were recorded and documented.

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A tale of two tables: behind the scenes at Lacock Abbey, 2021

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YpzUgPn3hY&list=WL&index=21&t=18s

Interpretation Journal, 2019

Cochrane, A. and Uzzell, D. 2019. Gardens after interpretation: the case of the RHS Bird Hide. In... more Cochrane, A. and Uzzell, D. 2019. Gardens after interpretation: the case of the RHS Bird Hide. Interpretation Journal 24(1), 16-19.

Entry in forthcoming (2018): Society of Archaeological Science (SAS) encyclopedia Publisher: ... more Entry in forthcoming (2018):

Society of Archaeological Science (SAS) encyclopedia

Publisher: Wiley

In: Archaeology with Art (2016) Edited by: Helen Chittock and Joana Valdez-Tullett

The Folkton ‘Drums’ are the most remarkable decorated artefacts from Neolithic Britain. A new ana... more 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.

Routledge 2017 Co-authored with Andy Jones (Southampton)

2023. Light Struck - the exhibition. Lacock: National Trust. , 2023

2023. Light Struck - the exhibition. Lacock: National Trust.

Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2007

Art and Archaeology, 2013

A tale of two tables: behind the scenes at Lacock Abbey, 2021

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YpzUgPn3hY&list=WL&index=21&t=18s

Interpretation Journal, 2019

Entry in forthcoming (2018): Society of Archaeological Science (SAS) encyclopedia Publisher: ... more Entry in forthcoming (2018):

Society of Archaeological Science (SAS) encyclopedia

Publisher: Wiley

In: Archaeology with Art (2016) Edited by: Helen Chittock and Joana Valdez-Tullett

This chapter explores the rock art of the British Isles and northernmost Europe, highlighting con... more This chapter explores the rock art of the British Isles and northernmost Europe, highlighting contrasts between the regional patterns and considering some points of similarity in the effects of producing rock art. Acknowledging the difficulty with identifying a Neolithic period in northern Scandinavia, the range of Scandinavian rock art that is likely to have been made in the period c. 4000-1800 BC is discussed. The figurative imagery used in the art is described and interpretations considered, and the potential impact on art production of interaction with Neolithic communities is considered. By contrast, the Neolithic rock art of Britain and Ireland is overwhelmingly abstract, leading to different interpretative approaches: this art, its locations, and the interpretations posited in making sense of it, are explored. The abstract nature of the art is brought to the fore, and attention is paid to the practice of art production and the potential for future engagements and transformations to decorated surfaces provided by rock art. While the art of the two regions is clearly distinct, and the form and meanings of motifs differed considerably, the practice of image production may have been similarly important in producing connections with the past, and in producing experiences and identities extended towards the future.

"The power of images has played a fundamental role in the projects of both modernity and archaeol... more "The power of images has played a fundamental role in the projects of both modernity and archaeology. Since the seventeenth century the past has been understood by the politics of display and visual documentation. Archaeological practice has progressed with modern visual technologies and scientific revolutions, creating standardised media. This has, however, created a situation whereby representational understandings of all things in the past dominate – to end with a representational interpretation is understandable, to begin with one is problematic. Such practices are most revalent in accounts of motifs and passage tombs in Ireland. This paper moves beyond mere representation and the idea that things are passive, and instead offers a narrative of the Loughcrew complex, that is more collaborative and dynamic.