How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

by Peter S. Wells

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143382
• ISBN13: 9780691143385
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"