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1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: THEORY AND METHOD; Chapter 1: Of Monsters and Flowers; Chapter 2: Seeing and Shaping Objects; Chapter 3: The Visual Worlds of Early Europe; Chapter 4: Frame, Focus, Visualization; PART II: MATERIAL: OBJECTS AND ARRANGEMENTS; Chapter 5: Pottery: The Visual Ecology of the Everyday; Chapter 6: Attraction and Enchantment: Fibulae; Chapter 7: Status and Violence: Swords and Scabbards; Chapter 8: Arranging Spaces: Objects in Graves; Chapter 9: Performances: Objects and Bodies in Motion |
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Chapter 10: New Media in the Late Iron Age: Coins and WritingPART III: INTERPRETING THE PATTERNS; Chapter 11: Changing Patterns in Objects and in Perception; Chapter 12: Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns; CONCLUSION; Chapter 13: The Visuality of Objects, Past and Present; Bibliographic Essay; References Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z; |
| Summary |
The peoples 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 elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization and today's industrialized societies. Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Wells reconstructs how the peoples of pre-Roman Europe saw the world and their place in |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Europe, Western.
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Prehistoric peoples. |
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Western Europe. |
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Material culture -- Europe, Western.
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Material culture. |
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe, Western.
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Antiquities, Prehistoric. |
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Symbolism.
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Symbolism. |
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Bronze age -- Europe, Western.
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Bronze age. |
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Iron age -- Europe, Western.
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Iron age. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613852403 (DLC) 2012001534 |
| ISBN |
9781400844777 (electronic book) |
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1400844770 (electronic book) |
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0691143382 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691143385 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613852403 |
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