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Colouring the past : the significance of colour in archaeological research / edited by Andrew Jones and Gavin MacGregor.
Penn Museum Library CC72.4 .C65 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social archaeology--Research.
- Social archaeology.
- Social archaeology--Methodology.
- Color--Social aspects--History.
- Color.
- Symbolism of colors--History.
- Symbolism of colors.
- Antiquities.
- Material culture.
- Aesthetics.
- History.
- Color--Social aspects.
- Research.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2002.
- Contents:
- Apotropaism and the temporality of colours: colourful mesolithic-neolithic seasons in the Danube gorges / Dusan Boric
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859735428
- 1859735479
- OCLC:
- 48835142
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