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"Colouring the past" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Apotropaism and the temporality of colours: colourful mesolithic-neolithic seasons in the Danube gorges / Dusan Boric -̇- Colourful prehistories: the problem with the Berlin and Kay colour paradigm / John Chapman
• 2- White on blonde: quartz pebbles and the use of quartz at neolithic monuments in the Isle of Man and beyond / Timothy Darvill
• 3- So many shades of rock: colour symbolism and Irish stone axeheads / Gabriel Cooney
• 4- The flashing blade: copper, colour and luminosity in north Italian copper age society / Stephen Keates
• 5- Munselling the mound: the use of soil colour as metaphor in British bronze age funerary ritual / Mary Ann Owoc
• 6- Making monuments out of mountains: the role of colour and texture in the constitution of meaning and identity at recumbent stone circles / Gavin Macgregor
• 7- A biography of colour: colour, material histories and personhood in the early bronze age of Britain and Ireland / Andrew Jones
• 8- The composition, function and significance of the mineral paints from the Kurgan burial mounds of the south Urals and north Kazakhstan / Alexander Tairov and Anatoli Filippovich Bushmakin
• 9- Colour and light in a Pompeian house: modern impressions or ancient perceptions / Penelope M. Allison
• 10- The colours of light: materiality and chromatic cultures of the Americas / Nicholas J. Saunders
• 11- Epilogue: colour and materiality in prehistoric society / Chris Scarre.

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