Ing-Marie Back Danielsson is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala UniversityAndrew Meirion Jones is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton

'This is a wide-ranging volume, with papers coving images of Nile hippos in ancient Egypt to gold foil figures in Iron Age Scandinavia. The papers all discuss the creation and use of images and art. [...] Throughoutthis volume there are informative observations and discussions of how we should understand and think about art and images in the past.'Ulster Archaeological Society

• 1 Introduction – Ing-Marie Back Danielsson and Andrew Meirion JonesPart I: Emergent images2 The Nile in the hippopotamus: being and becoming in faience figurines of Middle Kingdom ancient Egypt – Rune Nyord3 An archaeology of anthropomorphism: upping the ontological ante of Alfred Gell’s anthropology of art through a focus on making – Ben Alberti4 Dirty RTI – Ian Dawson Commentary – Tim IngoldPart II: Images as process5 Rock art as process: Iberian Late Bronze Age ‘warrior’ stelae in-the-making – Marta Díaz-Guardamino 6 Images and forms before Plato: the carved stone balls of Northeast Scotland – Andrew Meirion Jones7 Connectivity and the making of Atlantic rock art – Joana Valdez-Tullett8 Neolithic and Copper Age stamps in the Balkans: a material and processual account of image making– Agni PrijateljCommentary – Chantal ConnellerPart III: Unfolding images9 Pattern as patina: Iron Age ‘Kintsugi’ from East Yorkshire – Helen Chittock10 The act of creation: tangible engagements in the making and ‘re-making’ of prehistoric rock art – Lara Bacelar Alves11 ‘Guldgubbar’s’ changing ontology: Scandinavian Late Iron Age gold foil figures through the lense of intra-action – Ing-Marie Back Danielsson 12 The partial and the vague as a visual mode in Bronze Age rock art– Fredrik FahlanderParts and holes: a commentary – Louisa MinkinIndex