Colouring the past : the significance of colour in archaeological research / ed. by Andrew Jones and Gavin MacGregor

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: XV, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• Soggetto topico: Archeologia - Metodologia; Colori - Storia; Simbolismo dei colori - Storia
• Altri autori: Jones, Andrew, 1967- MacGregor, Gavin, 1969-
• Altri autori (Enti): European Association of Archaeologists.Meeting (5. : 1999 : Bournemouth, Inghilterra)
• Nota di bibliografia: Contiene bibliografia
• Nota di contenuto: Apotropaism and the temporality of colours: colourful mesolithic-neolithic seasons in the Danube gorges / Dusan Boricç -- Colourful prehistories: the problem with the Berlin and Kay colour paradigm / John Chapman -- White on blonde: quartz pebbles and the use of quartz at neolithic monuments in the Isle of Man and beyond / Timothy Darvill -- So many shades of rock: colour symbolism and Irish stone axeheads / Gabriel Cooney -- The flashing blade: copper, colour and luminosity in north Italian copper age society / Stephen Keates -- Munselling the mound: the use of soil colour as metaphor in British bronze age funerary ritual / Mary Ann Owoc -- Making monuments out of mountains: the role of colour and texture in the constitution of meaning and identity at recumbent stone circles / Gavin Macgregor -- A biography of colour: colour, material histories and personhood in the early bronze age of Britain and Ireland / Andrew Jones -- The composition, function and significance of the mineral paints from the Kurgan burial mounds of the south Urals and north Kazakhstan / Alexander Tairov and Anatoli Filippovich Bushmakin -- Colour and light in a Pompeian house: modern impressions or ancient perceptions / Penelope M. Allison -- The colours of light: materiality and chromatic cultures of the Americas / Nicholas J. Saunders -- Epilogue: colour and materiality in prehistoric society / Chris Scarre
• ISBN: 1859735479
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 991001866929707536
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento