Author: Peter S. WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The World of Magdalenska gora
Author: Peter S. WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Magdalenska gora
Author: Sneža Tecco HvalaPublisher: Založba ZRC
ISBN: 961254400X
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The finds and preserved grave groups from its tumulus cemeteries, which are kept in several museums in different countries (Narodni muzej Slovenije, Ljubljana~Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien~Peabody Museum of Harvard University in Cambridge, USA), give a good insight into the cultural and social processes of the time. Together with notes on the circumstances of find and contents of graves, they represent a valuable source for the study of social structure and differentiation, as well as cultural identity.
The New World
Author: Mecklenburg Collection: The Iron Age cemetery of Magdalenska gora in Slovenia
Author: Hugh HenckenPublisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Publications Department
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
These three volumes deal with the Iron Age grave materials from Magdalenska gora, excavated by the Duchess Paul Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Duchess of Mecklenburg, a member of an Austrian royal family with estates in Slovenia, conducted her excavations in the early years of the twentieth century. The materials from Magdalenska gora were purchased by the Peabody Museum in the 1930s.
Voyage to the Other World
Author: Calvin B. KendallPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452901503
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
How Ancient Europeans Saw the World
Author: Peter S. WellsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400844770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A revolutionary approach to how we view Europe's prehistoric culture 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.
Magdalenska gora
Author: Marko FrelihThe Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe
Author: Katharina Rebay-SalisburyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351998722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art. The human remains themselves provide information on biological parameters of life, such as sex, biological age, and health status. Objects associated with the body in the grave and funerary practices give further insights on how people of the early Iron Age understood life and death, themselves, and their place in the world. Representations of the human body appear in a variety of different materials, forms, and contexts, ranging from ceramic figurines to images on bronze buckets. Rather than focussing on their narrative content, human images are here interpreted as visualising and mediating identity. The analysis of how image elements were connected reveals networks of social relations that connect central Europe to the Mediterranean. Body ideals, nudity, sex and gender, aging, and many other aspects of women’s and men’s lives feature in this book. Archaeological evidence for marriage and motherhood, war, and everyday life is brought together to paint a vivid picture of the past.
Atlas of World Art
Author: John OniansPublisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1856693775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Combines a survey of world art with maps showing the associations and dissemination of culture across the globe.
The Barbarians of Ancient Europe
Author: Larissa BonfantePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521194040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Deals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe - Thracians, Scythians, Celts, Germans, Etruscans, and other peoples of Italy, the Alps, and beyond.