How ancient Europeans saw the world
Subtitle: vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times
By: Peter S. Wells
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780691143385
Subjects: Material culture; Prehistoric peoples; Iron age; Symbolism; Prehistoric Antiquities; Bronze age
Description: xviii, 285 p. : 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Of monsters and flowers; title: Seeing and shaping objects; title: The visual worlds of early Europe; title: Frame, focus, visualization; title: Pottery : the visual ecology of the everyday; title: Attraction and enchantment : fibulae; title: Status and violence : swords and scabbards; title: Arranging spaces : objects in graves; title: Performances : objects and bodies in motion; title: New media in the late iron age : coins and writing; title: Changing patterns in objects and in perception; title: Contacts, commerce, and the dynamics of new visual patterns; title: The visuality of objects, past and present.