The contributions to this collection discuss - from a general perspective and on
the basis of concrete examples - how the epistemic potentials of the manifold
current strands of image and visual culture studies on images and their perception -
which proliferated since the pictorial and the iconic turn - can be made available
for the archaeological study of image cultures. They address semiotic and
perceptual, frame-semantic, affect-theoretical and cognitive approaches as well as
questions of image contexts and the agency of imag