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Controlling Colours
- Function and meaning of Colour in the British Iron Age
Engelsk Paperback
Controlling Colours
- Function and meaning of Colour in the British Iron Age
Engelsk Paperback

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Colour defines our material world, operates as a communication tool and creates meaning. But despite the wealth of colour present in British Iron Age archaeology, interpretative studies have concentrated mostly on the shape of material objects and their decoration, with at best fleeting references to colour. This book revisits well known and well documented sites or artefacts and explores their colours and colour connotations – whether hue or luminosity, whether natural or man-made, whether innate or deliberately applied - by looking at various contexts such as processes, landscape, iconography, body decoration or the colour connotations of death. The importance of changes in colour caused by passing of time, processing, handling or exposure, as well as the deliberate concealment or defacing of colour is looked at . Finally and most importantly, using methodologies ranging from examination of written sources, comparisons from the fields of anthropology and ethnology to experimental archaeology the author attempts to shed light on the symbolic meaning behind such colours or colour contexts and contribute to our understanding of Iron Age cosmologies.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
158
ISBN-13:
9781784912253
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1784912255
Udg. Dato:
22 jan 2016
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
290mm
Højde:
207mm
Forlag:
Archaeopress
Oplagsdato:
22 jan 2016
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge