{"product_id":"how-ancient-europeans-saw-the-world-9780691166759","title":"How Ancient Europeans Saw the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 fro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonorable Mention for the 2012 PROSE Award in Archeology \u0026amp; Anthropology, Association of American Publishers \"[B]eautifully crisp and elegant... [Wells's] book deserves to be widely read and admired.\"--Peter Thonemann, Times Literary Supplement \"With painstaking detail, Wells documents how objects tell the early European story, making a compelling case that historians ought to rethink the standard views.\"--Tom Siegfried, Science News \"Archaeologist Wells takes a novel approach to exploring the way Bronze and Iron Age societies in Europe (2000BCE to 1CE) viewed themselves. Through analysing their artifacts, pottery, fibulae, swords and scabbards, and coins, as well as the arrangements of their graves and their public places, the author plausibly suggests that their views changed through time.\"--Choice \"It is evident that Wells is constantly conscious of the fact that he is writing for a modem 'literate' person to who words are more important than visuals. He has explained every single object, without going on jargons. An interesting history of Europe.\"--R. Balashankar, Organiser \"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.\"--World Book Industry \"Wells presents thought-provoking ideas about Bronze Age and Iron Age Europeans. This book will stimulate further research on a very challenging topic, that is, the mindset of past populations. The extensive bibliography is very useful for archaeologists interested in this type of research.\"--Sarunas Milisauskas, Historian \"This book is thought-provoking; its broad geographical scope is particularly relevant in this post-credit-crunch world where European integration is once more on the agenda.\"--Laura Slack, Time \u0026amp; Mind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii  Preface xi  Acknowledgments xvii    Part I: Theory and Method  Chapter 1: Of Monsters and Flowers 1  Chapter 2: Seeing and Shaping Objects 18  Chapter 3: The Visual Worlds of Early Europe 34  Chapter 4: Frame, Focus, Visualization 52    Part II: Material: Objects and Arrangements  Chapter 5: Pottery: The Visual Ecology of the Everyday 72  Chapter 6: Attraction and Enchantment: Fibulae 99  Chapter 7: Status and Violence: Swords and Scabbards 112  Chapter 8: Arranging Spaces: Objects in Graves 131  Chapter 9: Performances: Objects and Bodies in Motion 155  Chapter 10: New Media in the Late Iron Age: Coins and Writing 176    Part III: Interpreting the Patterns  Chapter 11: Changing Patterns in Objects and in Perception 188  Chapter 12: Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns 200    Conclusion  Chapter 13: The Visuality of Objects, Past and Present 222    Bibliographic Essay 231  References Cited 249  Index 281","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403817525591,"sku":"9780691166759","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691166759.jpg?v=1730484633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-ancient-europeans-saw-the-world-9780691166759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}