Symbols and warriors : images of the European Bronze Age /
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| Author / Creator: | Harrison, Richard J. |
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| Imprint: | Bristol, England : Western Academic & Specialist Press, c2004. |
| Description: | xi, 360 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5632526 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontispiece
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Stelae as windows on the Bronze Age
- 1.1. Thinking about a world-view
- 1.2. The first stelae in Europe and Iberia
- 1.3. Stelae as artefacts with pictures
- 1.4. Aspects of Bronze Age social evolution
- Chapter 2. Between two worlds: the Atlantic and Mediterranean background to the stelae
- 2.1. The idea of an Atlantic Bronze Age
- 2.2. Chronology and historical dates
- 2.3. Research agendas for the Bronze Age
- 2.4. Looking forward
- Chapter 3. Landscapes with stelae
- 3.1. The landscapes and historical ecology of Extremadura
- 3.2. Subsistence in the savannas: herding systems and pastoralism
- 3.3. Metals as raw materials in Extremadura
- 3.4. Finding the stelae
- 3.5. Stelae in the ancient landscape
- Chapter 4. Observing pictures, motifs and compositions
- 4.1. Stelae groups and distributions
- 4.2. Some prehistoric contexts
- 4.3. Evolving pictures on stelae: composition over time
- 4.4. Changing the picture: stelae transformed by secondary use
- 4.5. Making an iconic language of power: motifs and thematic compositions
- 4.6. Motifs and objects
- 4.7. A warrior code of abstractions
- 4.8. Areas of elite social activity not included on the stelae
- Chapter 5. Recognising ideologies: social strategies in the Bronze Age
- 5.1. The character of chiefdoms
- 5.2. Social networks and sources of power in chiefdoms
- 5.3. Ideology and its visual expression
- Chapter 6. Reading the codes: symbols and meanings
- 6.1. Context and meaning
- 6.2. Compositions and motif groups
- 6.3. The coded meanings behind the symbols
- Chapter 7. Materialising the motifs as Bronze Age artefacts
- 7.1. Archaeological data for ideological motifs
- 7.2. Shields
- 7.3. Swords
- 7.4. Crested helmets
- 7.5. Horned figures
- 7.6. Other weapons
- 7.7. Chariots
- 7.8. Mirrors
- 7.9. Metrology
- 7.10. Lyres and harps
- 7.11. Combs
- 7.12. Brooches
- 7.13. Toilet articles: tweezers and razors
- 7.14. Diadems and hair coiffures
- Chapter 8. Placing the Iberian stelae in their European context
- 8.1. Cultural geography in the Bronze Age
- 8.2. Connections across Europe
- 8.3. The ideal of the Late Bronze Age warrior
- 8.4. Invisible heroes
- Chapter 9. Summary
- Chapter 10. Illustrated catalogue of stelae
- Bibliography
- Index
