How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric t...
How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric t...
How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times / Peter S. Wells.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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N936/39
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 285 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Of monsters and flowers -- Seeing and shaping objects -- The visual worlds of early Europe -- Frame, focus, visualization -- Pottery : the visual ecology of the everyday -- Attraction and enchantment : fibulae -- Status and violence : swords and scabbards -- Arranging spaces : objects in graves -- P...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2012.
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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 the author argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from...
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How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times / Peter S. Wells.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-280) and index.
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c2012.
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N936/39
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74Vvbj5lmxPd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvbj5lmxPd
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ISBN
0691143382 (alk. paper)
9780691143385 (alk. paper)
DDC
936
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991014955859702626
