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the significance of colour in archaeological research

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Colouring the past

the significance of colour in archaeological research

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Berg, Berg Publishers
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English
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250

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Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research
July 1, 2002, Berg Publishers
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Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research
July 1, 2002, Berg Publishers
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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Dewey Decimal Class
930.1
Library of Congress
CC72.4 .C65 2002, CC72.4.C65 2002

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xv, 250 p. :
Number of pages
250

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OL3552687M
ISBN 10
1859735428, 1859735479
LCCN
2002003430
OCLC/WorldCat
48835142
Library Thing
2063389
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3530685
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