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Dr. George Nash is currently a part-time lecturer and visiting fellow at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, an associate professor, and senior researcher at the Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania, and at the Museum of Prehistoric Art (Quaternary and Prehistory Geosciences Centre, Macao, Portugal). George has been a professional archaeologist for the past 20 years and has undertaken extensive fieldwork on prehistoric rock art and mobility art in Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Spain, and Sweden (Fig. 1). Between 1994 and 1997 he directed excavations at the La Hougue Bie passage grave on Jersey, one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments and has directed excavations at Westminster Hall, London.
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Chippindale, C. & G.H. Nash. (ed.) 2004. Figurative landscapes of rock-art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
García Arranz, J.J., H. Collado Giraldo & G.H. Nash. (ed.) 2012. El problema “Levantino”: Arte rupestre postpaleolitico en le Peninsula Ibérica. Bucharest: Archaeolingua.
Mazel, A, G.H. Nash & C. Waddington. (ed.) 2007. Metaphor as art: the prehistoric rock-art of Britain. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Nash, G.H. & C. Chippindale. 2002 (ed.) European landscapes of rock-art. London: Routledge.
Nash, G.H. 2006. The architecture of death: the Neolithic chambered monuments of Wales. Hereford: Logaston.
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Nash, G.H. 2006. Light at the end of the tunnel: the way megalithic art was viewed and experienced. Documenta Praehistorica XXXIII: 209-28.
- 2011. Replicating cultural landscapes: interpreting rock-art in the Valcamonica, Lombardy, Italy. Landscapes Journal 2: 1-19.
- 2012. Megalithic rock art of the Mediterranean and Atlantic seaboard Europe, in J. McDonald & P. Veth (ed.) A companion to rock art: 127-42.New York: Blackwell.
Nash, G.N., P. van Calsteren, L. Thomas & M.J. Simms. 2012. A discovery of possible Upper Palaeolithic parietal art in Cathole cave, Gower Peninsula, South Wales. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 25 (3): 327-36.
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Nash, G. (2014). Nash, George. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2393
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