How ancient Europeans saw the world vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times / Peter S. Wells.

Author/creator Wells, Peter S.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Prehistoric peoples--Europe, Western.
Material culture--Europe, Western.
Antiquities, Prehistoric--Europe, Western.
Symbolism.
Bronze age--Europe, Western.
Iron age--Europe, Western.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references ([p.249]-280) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012001534
ISBN9780691143385 (alk. paper)
ISBN0691143382 (alk. paper)

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