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Visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy (2003)
Journal Article
Skeates, R. (2003). Visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 68, 165-83

Using the approach of visual culture, which highlights the embeddedness of art in dynamic human processes, this paper examines the prehistoric archaeology of the Lecce province in south-east Italy, in order to provide a history of successive visual c... Read More about Visual culture in prehistoric South-East Italy.

Archaeologies of art: contributions to World Art Studies. (2001)
Book Chapter
Skeates, R. (2001). Archaeologies of art: contributions to World Art Studies. In L. Golden (Ed.), Raising the Eyebrow: John Onians and World Art Studies. An Album Amicorum in his Honour (289-300). British Archaeological Reports

The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999). (2000)
Book
Skeates, R. (2000). The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999). British Archaeological Reports

This book examines the strategic re-production and re-working of the cultural values and meanings of prehistoric objects by collectors over the last five hundred years. It does so in the light of those collectors’ individual beliefs and aspirations,... Read More about The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999)..