Colouring the past
Subtitle: the significance of colour in archaeological research
By: edited by Andrew Jones and Gavin MacGregor.
Contributors: Jones, Andrew, 1967-; MacGregor, Gavin, 1969-; European Archaeological Association. Conference.
Publisher: Berg; Berg Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Social archaeology -- Research.; Social archaeology -- Methodology.; Color -- Social aspects -- History.; Symbolism of colors -- History.; Antiquities.; Material culture.; Aesthetics.
Other titles: Coloring the past :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
The contributions by Cooney, Jones, Keates, Owoc, and MacGregor "originated from a conference session ... at the European Archaeological Association (EAA) meeting held in Bournemouth, September 1999"--P. vii.
Table of contents: title: Apotropaism and the temporality of colours: colourful mesolithic-neolithic seasons in the Danube gorges / Dusan Boric -̇- Colourful prehistories: the problem with the Berlin and Kay colour paradigm / John Chapman; title: White on blonde: quartz pebbles and the use of quartz at neolithic monuments in the Isle of Man and beyond / Timothy Darvill; title: So many shades of rock: colour symbolism and Irish stone axeheads / Gabriel Cooney; title: The flashing blade: copper, colour and luminosity in north Italian copper age society / Stephen Keates; title: Munselling the mound: the use of soil colour as metaphor in British bronze age funerary ritual / Mary Ann Owoc; title: Making monuments out of mountains: the role of colour and texture in the constitution of meaning and identity at recumbent stone circles / Gavin Macgregor; title: A biography of colour: colour, material histories and personhood in the early bronze age of Britain and Ireland / Andrew Jones; title: The composition, function and significance of the mineral paints from the Kurgan burial mounds of the south Urals and north Kazakhstan / Alexander Tairov and Anatoli Filippovich Bushmakin; title: Colour and light in a Pompeian house: modern impressions or ancient perceptions / Penelope M. Allison; title: The colours of light: materiality and chromatic cultures of the Americas / Nicholas J. Saunders; title: Epilogue: colour and materiality in prehistoric society / Chris Scarre.