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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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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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