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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 [electronic resource] : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times / Peter S. Wells.
ISBN
1400844770
9781400844777
0691143382 (alk. paper)
9780691143385 (alk. paper)
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 285 p. :) : ill. ;
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references ([p.249]-280) and index.
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.
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