San Antonio College Library

Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the ancient Mediterranean world, the archetypal barbarians from the north, feared by both Greeks and Romans. And though this ancient thousand-year-old civilization was crushed by the military campaigns of Julius Caesar, the Celts remain an object of fascination to this day. Now, in The Ancient Celts, Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading authorities on European prehistory,...

"An Archaeology of Images presents a new interpretation of the ways images worked within ancient European societies, in the period from 600 BC to AD 400." "Using archaeology and social anthropology, the author investigates the various meanings with which images may have been imbued, and seeks to undermine the usual interpretation of statues, reliefs and figurines as passive things to be looked at or worshipped. It is clear that the deposition of images...