Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy

by Robin Skeates

This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves. It explores this process through an extended case-study of art and social life in prehistoric south-east Italy, between the Upper Palaeolithic and the Bronze Age. A central argument of the book is that a wide range of visually communicative artworks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715633902
• ISBN13: 9780715633908
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"