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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • 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