LEADER 04018nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910824386603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-53995-0 010 $a9786613852403 010 $a1-4008-4477-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400844777 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104451 035 $a(EBL)946518 035 $a(OCoLC)802056567 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000701391 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11940509 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701391 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10674979 035 $a(PQKB)11030777 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC946518 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000515152 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43344 035 $a(DE-B1597)453837 035 $a(OCoLC)979905328 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400844777 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL946518 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574894 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL385240 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104451 100 $a20120118d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow ancient Europeans saw the world $evision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times /$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 615 0$aPrehistoric peoples 615 0$aMaterial culture 615 0$aAntiquities, Prehistoric 615 0$aSymbolism. 615 0$aBronze age 615 0$aIron age 676 $a936 700 $aWells$b Peter S$018014 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824386603321 996 $aHow ancient Europeans saw the world$94082497 997 $aUNINA