ABSTRACT. The authors present an exploration of why prehistoric persons were so interested in highly coloured and shining objects. They propose an aesthetic of colour and brilliance that emerged in the Balkan early farming period and developed as a key feature in the Climax Balkan Copper Age, influencing all forms of material culture and underpining the dazzling development of goldworking technology represented in the Varna Chalcolithic cemetery
It is widely assumed nowadays that colours and gold played a major role in ancient Greek societies t...
The aesthetics of early Christian and Byzantine art offer an area of insight into attitudes both to ...
Color affects us both consciously and subconsciously, and can create actions and reactions: biologic...
Description:Colour shapes our world in profound, if sometimes subtle, ways. It helps us to classify,...
Abstract : Despite an increasing number of studies, colouring materials are still poorly understood...
Bright colours and pure whites were appreciated in the ancient world, appearing in texts and artefa...
One aspect of tombs and burials in the BA Aegean in general that has not received much notice is tha...
The focus of this text is twofold. The first task is to reconsider the mode of interpretation of var...
Colour played an important role in the interest in, and interpretation of, a wide range of small por...
How can metallurgical terminology - specifically names of metals - support ar chaeological investig...
Contents PrefaceIntroduction: Wonderful things: colour studies in archaeology from Munsell to materi...
There is a rich body of three-dimensional art from Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus made in the Red Pol...
Studies of creativity frequently focus on the modern era yet creativity has always been part of huma...
In the Neolithic and Early Eneolithic in the Central Balkans, the white colour seems to have had a p...
International audienceBronze is an alloy of copper and tin, with lead also added. Hellenistic and Ro...
It is widely assumed nowadays that colours and gold played a major role in ancient Greek societies t...
The aesthetics of early Christian and Byzantine art offer an area of insight into attitudes both to ...
Color affects us both consciously and subconsciously, and can create actions and reactions: biologic...
Description:Colour shapes our world in profound, if sometimes subtle, ways. It helps us to classify,...
Abstract : Despite an increasing number of studies, colouring materials are still poorly understood...
Bright colours and pure whites were appreciated in the ancient world, appearing in texts and artefa...
One aspect of tombs and burials in the BA Aegean in general that has not received much notice is tha...
The focus of this text is twofold. The first task is to reconsider the mode of interpretation of var...
Colour played an important role in the interest in, and interpretation of, a wide range of small por...
How can metallurgical terminology - specifically names of metals - support ar chaeological investig...
Contents PrefaceIntroduction: Wonderful things: colour studies in archaeology from Munsell to materi...
There is a rich body of three-dimensional art from Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus made in the Red Pol...
Studies of creativity frequently focus on the modern era yet creativity has always been part of huma...
In the Neolithic and Early Eneolithic in the Central Balkans, the white colour seems to have had a p...
International audienceBronze is an alloy of copper and tin, with lead also added. Hellenistic and Ro...
It is widely assumed nowadays that colours and gold played a major role in ancient Greek societies t...
The aesthetics of early Christian and Byzantine art offer an area of insight into attitudes both to ...
Color affects us both consciously and subconsciously, and can create actions and reactions: biologic...