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

By:

Hoecherl, Marlies [Author]

Contributor(s):

Archaeopress []

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781784912260

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

GN780 .C668 2015

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 or the colour connotations of death.

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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 or the colour connotations of death.

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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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