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How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, Peter S.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Prehistoric peoples > Europe, Western.
Material culture > Europe, Western.
Antiquities, Prehistoric > Europe, Western.
Symbolism.
Bronze age > Europe, Western.
Iron age > Europe, Western.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Of monsters and flowers
  • Seeing and shaping objects
  • The visual worlds of early Europe
  • Frame, focus, visualization
  • Pottery : the visual ecology of the everyday
  • Attraction and enchantment : fibulae
  • Status and violence : swords and scabbards
  • Arranging spaces : objects in graves
  • Performances : objects and bodies in motion
  • New media in the late iron age : coins and writing
  • Changing patterns in objects and in perception
  • Contacts, commerce, and the dynamics of new visual patterns
  • The visuality of objects, past and present.