Peter S Wells

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How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric TimesHardcover, 26 August 2012

How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times
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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
26 Aug 2012
ISBN-10
0691143382
ISBN-13
9780691143385

Description

The 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.

Product Details

Author:
Peter S Wells
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
26 August 2012
Dimensions:
23.62 x 16 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0691143382
ISBN-13:
9780691143385
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
304
Weight:
544.31 gm

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