How ancient Europeans saw the world: vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times
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1. Verfasser: Wells, Peter S. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 285 pages)
ISBN:0691143382
1400844770
9780691143385
9781400844777

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