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

The people who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and more. This title argues the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was different from th...

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Main Author: Wells, Peter S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , c2012
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Online Access:http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001600/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references ([p.249]-280) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Of monsters and flowers -- 2. Seeing and shaping objects -- 3. The visual worlds of early Europe -- 4. Frame, focus, visualization -- 5. Pottery: the visual ecology of the everyday -- 6. Attraction and enchantment: fibulae -- 7. Status and violence: swords and scabbards -- 8. Arranging spaces: objects in graves -- 9. Performances: objects and bodies in motion -- 10. New media in the late iron age: coins and writing -- 11. Changing patterns in objects and in perception -- 12. Contacts, commerce, and the dynamics of new visual patterns -- 13. The visuality of objects, past and present 
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650 0 |a Bronze age   |z Europe, Western 
650 0 |a Iron age   |z Europe, Western 
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650 0 |a Prehistoric peoples   |z Europe, Western 
650 0 |a Symbolism 
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