Peter S Wells

Datos Biográficos

ID108591
NOMBREPeter S Wells
NOMBRESPeter S
APELLIDOWells
FIRMAWELLS P S
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Minnesota
ORCID0009-0000-4318-299X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS84
TOTAL DE CITAS328
TOTAL COMO AUTOR83
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1976
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H8

  • Images and Agency

    Open AccessPeter S WellsARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2024Referencias: 74

    This paper argues for a new way of thinking about Early Celtic art in the context of changes taking place throughout Eurasia during the fifth and fourth centuries bce . It applies ideas of anthropologist Alfred Gell, among others, regarding art as a stimulus to action. It asks, in the spirit of papers by Chris Gosden and W.J.T. Mitchell, ‘what did the art do ’? The paper argues that this complex new art can be understood in terms of agency contri…

  • Investigating the Origins of Temperate Europe's First Towns

    Peter S WellsCHAPTERCase Studies in European Prehistory2023

    The first communities in temperate Europe that can arguably be called "towns" developed during the Early Iron Age, between about 600 and 500 b.c. About 20 such settlements have been identified archaeologically, from France in the west to Czechoslovakia in the east. Cemetery sites of the Late Bronze Age have been abundantly excavated and well published, and the people thus have a good understanding of the mortuary aspect of the period. Finally, th…

  • Chronology in Iron Age Europe

    Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of the European…2022

    This chapter begins by examining how understandings of the duration of the European Iron Age vary and the factors shaping these perceptions, from the date at which iron was adopted, to the divergent trajectories of different regions consequent on the rise of Greece and Rome. An array of chronological schemes and terminologies have developed across Europe, not always compatible with one another. Many periodizations, including the Hallstatt–La Tène…

  • Weapons, Ritual and Warfare

    Open AccessPeter S Wells, Peter WellsCHAPTERCambridge World History of Violence2020

    Evidence for violence and organised warfare in Iron Age Europe is varied and abundant, but it is not clear how frequently large-scale conflict occurred. Weapons, including especially swords, spears and lances, are common in graves and deposits. Defensive weapons, such as shields, helmets and body armour, also occur but are less common. The fortification of hilltops for defensive purposes is characteristic in much of Iron Age Europe. Representatio…

  • Eurasian Iron Age interactions

    Peter S WellsCHAPTERArt in the Eurasian Iron Age2020

  • Early Islamic North Africa

    Corisande Fenwick, C G Fenwick et al.BOOKEarly Islamic North Africa2020

    This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…

  • Europe in the Iron Age

    Colin Haselgrove, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of the European…2019

    This chapter introduces the regional framework within which the archaeology of Iron Age Europe is presented in Chapters 4–17 of the book, and examines some key aspects of climate, environment, and population during the period. It outlines the main features of European physical geography—including landscapes, mountain ranges, river systems, and coastlines—discussing their roles as barriers to and facilitators of human connectivity during the Iron …

  • Edges and Interactions beyond Europe

    Naoíse Mac Sweeney, Peter S WellsCHAPTEROxford Handbook of the European…2018

    Iron Age Europe, once studied as a relatively closed, coherent continent, is being seen increasingly as a dynamic part of the much larger, interconnected world. Interactions, direct and indirect, with communities in Asia, Africa, and, by the end of the first millennium AD, North America, had significant effects on the peoples of Iron Age Europe. In the Near East and Egypt, and much later in the North Atlantic, the interactions can be linked direc…

  • The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

    Peter S Well, Andrew P Fitzpatrick et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of the European…2018Citada por: 13

    The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age presents to students, scholars, and interested general readers a broad overview of current understanding of the archaeology of Europe from 1000 bc to the early historic period. During this period, new technologies, agricultural innovation, and demographic growth saw much of the landscape opened up to near modern limits, accompanied in many areas by greater social and economic complexity. Three introduc…

  • Images, Ornament, and Cognition in Early La Tène Europe

    Open AccessPeter S WellsCHAPTEREurasia at the Dawn of History2017

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  • Visually Complex Objects, Ontology of Space and Political Dynamics

    Open AccessPeter S WellsARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2017Citada por: 4

    Humans have been producing ‘art’ for at least 75,000 years. But the word ‘art’ is problematic when applied to archaeology. This paper explores the use of the concept of ‘visually complex object’ to designate a very specific kind of what is generally known as ‘art’. I argue for the application of this concept to the analysis of both the design of objects and their arrangement in cultural spaces, to gain new perspectives on social and political cha…

  • Unique Objects, Special Deposits and Elite Networks in Bronze Age Europe

    Open AccessPeter S WellsARTICLEOxford Journal of Archaeology2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 27

    Most material culture of later prehistoric Europe comprises common forms of pottery, personal ornaments, and tools of different kinds. But some objects stand out by virtue of their unique decoration. These special objects were often ornamented with motifs and patterns that were intended to capture and hold the viewer's attention. Many such objects were purposefully deposited, sometimes in graves, sometimes in ‘structured deposits’. In the Early a…

  • The Germanic and Danubian Transfrontier Peoples

    Peter S WellsCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of warfare in…2013

    This chapter explores the character of the societies beyond the frontier and the ways in which those peoples responded to their interactions with the Roman world. Marcomanni, Quadi, Cherusci, Alamanni, Franks, Burgundians, Goths, Gepids, Alans, Huns, Avars, and Slavs were some of the transfrontier peoples. The chapter also treats the transfrontier peoples in two main groupings, one pf which consisted of peoples east of the Rhine and north of the …

  • Teutoburgiensis Saltus (Kalkriese)

    Open AccessPeter S WellsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    According to Tacitus (60–62), the Teutoburgiensis saltus (Teutoburg Forest) was where the remains of Varus and his legions lay after the great battle with Arminius in 9 CE .

  • Elbe

    Open AccessPeter S WellsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The Elbe River represented an unachieved goal of Roman military conquest in northern Europe and was a major route of communication for the peoples that inhabited the lands along its course.

  • Danube

    Open AccessPeter S WellsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The Danube is Europe's second longest river (after the Volga), and it played a major role in Rome's establishing and maintaining of its empire in Europe.

  • Agri Decumates

    Open AccessPeter S WellsCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    The term agri decumates was used by Tacitus in Germania 29.4 to designate the territory east of the upper Rhine, south of the Taunus hills, west of the modern town of Welzheim, and north of the Swiss border; most of it was in the modern state of Baden‐Württemberg. The meaning of the term is unclear and has been the cause of much debate. Tacitus implies that the land was sparsely populated before being settled by emigrants from Gaul and that it be…

  • Contacts, Commerce, and the Dynamics of New Visual Patterns

    Peter S WellsCHAPTERHow Ancient Europeans Saw the World2012

    This chapter discusses the extent to which communities in temperate Europe became increasingly integrated into the larger world of the Mediterranean basin and beyond, and how the process of integration worked. Major changes in the visual structure and patterning of objects took place in the context of major changes in the relationship between societies in temperate Europe and societies in the Mediterranean basin, in Asia, and in Africa. The chang…

  • How ancient Europeans saw the world

    Peter S WellsBOOKHow Ancient Europeans Saw the World2012

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  • How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

    Peter S WellsBOOKHow Ancient Europeans Saw the World2012

    The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as this book argues, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization and today's industrialized societies. Drawing on startling …

  • Neolithic to Saxon Social and Environmental Change at Mount Farm, Berinsfield, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire . George Lambrick

    Peter S WellsARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2011

  • Pottery and the Visual World at Early Iron Age Hascherkeller, Germany

    Peter S WellsARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2009Citada por: 2Referencias: 10

    On most late prehistoric and early historic settlement sites all over the world, pottery is the most abundant material recovered by archaeologists. Analysis of pottery provides information about the chronological position and cultural affiliation of a site, as well as about techniques of manufacture, organization of production, trade relations, and patterns in the social structure of the community. Here, a new approach is presented that focuses o…

  • Memory and Material Culture. Andrew Jones

    Peter S WellsARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2009

  • The American Discovery of Europe by Jack D. Forbes

    Open AccessPeter S WellsARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2008

  • The Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland. Chris Scarre

    Peter S WellsARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2008