Did people in the Iron Age see their bronze figurines and sculpted
stones differently from the way we see them today? How can we
approach the problem of determining how they saw things? How
different was their experience viewing these objects in the course
of their use, from ours as we look at them in museum cases or
through photographs in books?Recent research in cognitive
neuroscience and cognitive psychology forms the theoretical basis
for a new approach to understanding the visual basis of
communication in early Europe. The focus is on societies from the
Early Iron Age to the early medieval period in temperate Europe, at
the time that traditions of writing were gradually being adopted in
this part of the world. Following review of the most relevant
results of new experiments and observations in those sciences,
Peter S. Wells examines the visual aspects of the archaeological
evidence to investigate the role that visuality - the visual
quality of things - played in the expression of the self, in
interaction between members of social groups, in ritual activity,
and in the creation and experience of cultural landscapes.
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