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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Colouring the past. Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2002 (OCoLC)649415435 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Jones; Gavin MacGregor; European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting |
| ISBN: | 1859735428 9781859735428 1859735479 9781859735473 |
| OCLC Number: | 48835142 |
| Notes: | The contributions by Cooney, Jones, Keates, Owoc, and MacGregor "originated from a conference session ... at the European Archaeological Association (EAA) meeting held in Bournemouth, September 1999"--P. vii. |
| Description: | xv, 250 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm. |
| 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 -- Epilogue: colour and materiality in prehistoric society / Chris Scarre. |
| Other Titles: | Coloring the past : |
| Responsibility: | edited by Andrew Jones and Gavin MacGregor. |
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- Social archaeology -- Research.
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- Antiquities.
- Material culture.
- Aesthetics.
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- Archéologie sociale -- Méthodologie.
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