by Lambros Malafouris  (Author), Colin Renfrew (Foreword)

What can you see when you look at a rough circle? Ingold describes it in two ways. “The first is to see the line as the end product, of human intention and design abilities. The second way of seeing the line is as the dynamic trace of a human gesture rather than as a fixed totality. The logic operating behind the seeing of a circle refers to a tendency, deeply entrenched in the structure of modern thinking, to ‘turn the pathways along which life is lived into boundaries within which life is contained.’ Ingold calls that tendency the ‘logic of inversion’”. (Malafouris, 2013, p.191)