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Jacket Photograph: Arm and neck rings. Gold. Iron Age. Erstfeld UR Ribitäler. Inventory number: A-52044-A-52050. Courtesy of the Swiss National Museum, Zurich.

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Wells, Peter S.

How ancient Europeans saw the world : vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times / Peter S. Wells.

p.   cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14338-5 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-691-14338-2 (alk. paper)

1. Prehistoric peoples—Europe, Western. 2. Material culture—Europe, Western. 3. Antiquities, Prehistoric—Europe, Western. 4. Symbolism. 5. Bronze age—Europe, Western. 6. Iron age—Europe, Western. I. Title.

GN803.W44 2012

936—dc23            2012001534

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