TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoecherl,Marlies
AU  - Archaeopress
TI  - Controlling colours: function and meaning of colour in the British Iron Age 
T2  - Archaeopress archaeology
SN  - 9781784912260
AV  - GN780 .C668 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
KW  - Iron age
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Color
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service; 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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