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200 10$aHow ancient Europeans saw the world$b[electronic resource] $evision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times /$fPeter S. Wells
205   $aCourse Book
210   $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource (304 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-691-16675-7 
311   $a0-691-14338-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tILLUSTRATIONS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tPart I: Theory and Method --$tPart II: Material: Objects and Arrangements --$tPart III: Interpreting the Patterns --$tConclusion --$tBIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY --$tREFERENCES CITED --$tINDEX
330   $aThe 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 it. He sheds new light on how they communicated their thoughts, feelings, and visual perceptions through the everyday tools they shaped, the pottery and metal ornaments they decorated, and the arrangements of objects they made in their ritual places--and how these forms and patterns in turn shaped their experience. How Ancient Europeans Saw the World offers a completely new approach to the study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe, and represents a major challenge to existing views about prehistoric cultures. The book demonstrates why we cannot interpret the structures that Europe's pre-Roman inhabitants built in the landscape, the ways they arranged their settlements and burial sites, or the complex patterning of their art on the basis of what these things look like to us. Rather, we must view these objects and visual patterns as they were meant to be seen by the ancient peoples who fashioned them.
606   $aPrehistoric peoples$zEurope, Western
606   $aMaterial culture$zEurope, Western
606   $aAntiquities, Prehistoric$zEurope, Western
606   $aSymbolism
606   $aBronze age$zEurope, Western
606   $aIron age$zEurope, Western
610   $aBronze Age.
610   $aCeltic objects.
610   $aEarly Bronze Age.
610   $aGermanic style.
610   $aIron Age.
610   $aLate Iron Age.
610   $aMediterranean world.
610   $aMiddle Ages.
610   $aMiddle Iron Age.
610   $aRoman conquest.
610   $aRome.
610   $aactions.
610   $aartifacts.
610   $abowls.
610   $aburial chambers.
610   $aclothing pins.
610   $acoinage.
610   $acoins.
610   $acups.
610   $afibulae.
610   $afocus.
610   $aframe.
610   $agraves.
610   $ahouses.
610   $aimagery.
610   $aintegration.
610   $ajars.
610   $alandscape.
610   $alate prehistoric Europe.
610   $alight.
610   $amaterial culture.
610   $ametal ornaments.
610   $aobjects.
610   $aoptical process.
610   $aornament.
610   $aperformance.
610   $aphysiological process.
610   $apottery.
610   $apre-Roman Europe.
610   $aprehistoric community.
610   $aprehistoric culture.
610   $aritual.
610   $asafety pins.
610   $ascabbard.
610   $asettlement.
610   $asettlements.
610   $asocial contact.
610   $asocial context.
610   $aspace.
610   $asword.
610   $atools.
610   $atrade.
610   $avision.
610   $avisual patterns.
610   $avisual perception.
610   $avisual word.
610   $avisual world.
610   $avisualization.
610   $awriting.
615  0$aPrehistoric peoples
615  0$aMaterial culture
615  0$aAntiquities, Prehistoric
615  0$aSymbolism.
615  0$aBronze age
615  0$aIron age
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