How ancient Europeans saw the world

vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times

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How ancient Europeans saw the world

vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times

xviii, 285 p. : 25 cm

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English
Pages
285

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Table of 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
Performances : objects and bodies in motion
New media in the late iron age : coins and writing
Changing patterns in objects and in perception
Contacts, commerce, and the dynamics of new visual patterns
The visuality of objects, past and present.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Princeton

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
936
Library of Congress
GN803 .W44 2012, GN803.W44 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
285

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25205991M
ISBN 10
0691143382
ISBN 13
9780691143385
LCCN
2012001534
OCLC/WorldCat
775897855

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16509532W

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