Controlling colours : function and meaning of colour in the British Iron Age /

Colour defines our material world, operates as a communication tool and creates meaning. This book revisits well known and well documented sites or artefacts and explores their colours and colour connotations by looking at various contexts such as processes, landscape, iconography, body decoration o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoecherl, Marlies (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2015]
Colección:Archaeopress archaeology.
Temas:
To 1500
Iron age > Great Britain.
Color > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Antiquities
Color > Social aspects
Iron age
Great Britain > Antiquities.
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Literature Review
  • 3. Theoretical Aspects of Colour
  • 4. Colour and Creation
  • Colour Implications in Metalworking
  • 5. A Whiter Shade of Pale
  • Chalk in the British Iron Age
  • 6. Weaving with Light
  • Luminosity and Brilliance in the British Iron Age
  • 7. The Power of Blood
  • Decorated Metal Ware
  • 8. Yellow Stars and Red Journeys
  • Colour, Iconography and Cosmologies
  • 9. Black White and Red
  • Colours of Death
  • 10. Transforming Skin
  • Body Decoration in the British Iron Age
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Illustrations
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix 1: Sites
  • Appendix 2: Artefacts
  • Appendix 3: Human Remains
  • Appendix 4: Classical Sources for Body Decoration.

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