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How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns & the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

Peter S. Wells

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Description:Europeans during the two millennia before Roman conquest had established urban centers, mass production of goods like pottery & iron tools, a money economy, elaborate rituals & ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was very different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization & today's industrialized societies. Drawing on research in neuroscience & cognitive psychology, he reconstructs how pre-Roman Europeans saw the world & their place in it. He sheds light on how they communicated their thoughts, feelings & visual perceptions thru the everyday tools they shaped, the pottery & metal ornaments they decorated & the arrangements of objects they made in their ritual places--& how these forms & patterns in turn shaped their experience. "How Ancient Europeans Saw the World" offers a new approach to the study of Bronze & Iron Age Europe, challenging views about prehistoric cultures. It demonstrates why we cannot interpret the structures pre-Roman Europeans built in the landscape, the ways they arranged their settlements & burial sites, or the complex patterning of their art on the basis of how they look to us. Rather, we must view these objects & visual patterns as they were meant to be seen by those fashioning them.List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOf monsters & flowersSeeing & shaping objects The visual worlds of early EuropeFrame, focus, visualization Pottery: the visual ecology of the everyday Attraction & enchantment: fibulae Status & violence: swords & scabbards Arranging spaces: objects in gravesPerformances: objects & bodies in motionNew media in the late Iron Age: coins & writingChanging patterns in objects & in perceptionContacts, commerce & the dynamics of new visual patternsThe visuality of objects, past & presentBibliographic EssayReferences CitedIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns & the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times. To get started finding How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns & the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Europeans during the two millennia before Roman conquest had established urban centers, mass production of goods like pottery & iron tools, a money economy, elaborate rituals & ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was very different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization & today's industrialized societies. Drawing on research in neuroscience & cognitive psychology, he reconstructs how pre-Roman Europeans saw the world & their place in it. He sheds light on how they communicated their thoughts, feelings & visual perceptions thru the everyday tools they shaped, the pottery & metal ornaments they decorated & the arrangements of objects they made in their ritual places--& how these forms & patterns in turn shaped their experience. "How Ancient Europeans Saw the World" offers a new approach to the study of Bronze & Iron Age Europe, challenging views about prehistoric cultures. It demonstrates why we cannot interpret the structures pre-Roman Europeans built in the landscape, the ways they arranged their settlements & burial sites, or the complex patterning of their art on the basis of how they look to us. Rather, we must view these objects & visual patterns as they were meant to be seen by those fashioning them.List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOf monsters & flowersSeeing & shaping objects The visual worlds of early EuropeFrame, focus, visualization Pottery: the visual ecology of the everyday Attraction & enchantment: fibulae Status & violence: swords & scabbards Arranging spaces: objects in gravesPerformances: objects & bodies in motionNew media in the late Iron Age: coins & writingChanging patterns in objects & in perceptionContacts, commerce & the dynamics of new visual patternsThe visuality of objects, past & presentBibliographic EssayReferences CitedIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns & the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times. To get started finding How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns & the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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