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Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

Author : Andrew Bevan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139467107
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean written by Andrew Bevan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The societies that developed in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age produced the most prolific and diverse range of stone vessel traditions known at any time or anywhere in the world. Stone vessels are therefore a key class of artefact in the early history of this region. As a form of archaeological evidence, they offer important analytical advantages over other artefact types - virtual indestructibility, a wide range of functions and values, huge variety in manufacturing traditions, as well as the subtractive character of stone and its rich potential for geological provenancing. In this 2007 book, Andrew Bevan considers individual stone vessel industries in great detail. He also offers a highly comparative and value-led perspective on production, consumption and exchange logics throughout the eastern Mediterranean over a period of two millennia during the Bronze Age (ca.3000–1200 BC).

Value Regimes in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age

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Download or read book Value Regimes in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period

Author : Andrea Squitieri
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178491553X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period by : Andrea Squitieri

Download or read book Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period written by Andrea Squitieri and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the characteristics and the development of the stone vessel industry in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian period (c. 1200 – 330 BCE).

Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

Author : Louise Steel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415537347
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean written by Louise Steel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this contact and its social and economic significance, particularly to the cultures of the Aegean. Despite sophisticated discussion of the archaeological evidence, in particular on the part of Aegean and Mediterranean archaeologists, there has been little systematic attempt to incorporate anthropological perspectives on materiality and exchange into archaeological narratives of this material. This book addresses that gap and integrates anthropological discourse on contact, examining exchange systems, the gift, notions of geographical distance and power, colonization, and hybridization. Furthermore, it develops a social narrative of culture contact in the Mediterranean context, illustrating the reasons communities chose to engage in international exchange, and how this impacted the construction of identities throughout the region. While traditional archaeologies in the East Mediterranean have tended to be reductive in their approach to material culture and how it was produced, used, and exchanged, this book reviews current research on material culture, focusing on issues such as the biography of objects, inalienable possessions, and hybridization - exploring how these issues can further illuminate the material world of the communities of the Bronze Age Mediterranean.

Teaching Collection (Archaeology

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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Teaching Collection (Archaeology written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stone Vessels in the Levant

Author : Rachael Thyrza Sparks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
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Download or read book Stone Vessels in the Levant written by Rachael Thyrza Sparks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1.1.12 Shouldered cylindrical jars -- 1.1.13 Squat jars -- 1.1.14 Lug-handled jars -- 1.1.15 Stoppers -- 1.1.16 Diagnostic fragments -- 1.2 Palestinian decorative styles -- 1.2.1 Palestine decorative styles of the MBII-LBI period -- 1.2.1.1 The Jericho group -- 1.2.1.2 The Pella group -- 1.2.2 Palestinian decorative styles of the Late Bronze and early Iron Age -- 1.3 Influence and interaction: the impact of other products on the development of the Palestinian gypsum vessel industry -- 2 Syrian stone vessels -- 2.1 The royal workshop at Atchana -- 2.2 Syrian serpentine workshops -- 2.3 Chlorite workshops at Ras Shamra -- 2.3.1 Bowls -- 2.3.2 Miniature cups -- 2.3.3 Alabastra -- 2.3.4 Diagnostic fragments -- 3 Levantine groundstone vessels and installations -- 3.1 The development of Levantine stone vessel forms -- 3.1.1 Plates -- 3.1.2 Bowls -- 3.1.2.1 Everted bowls -- 3.1.2.2 Carinated bowls -- 3.1.2.3 Pedestal bowls -- 3.1.2.4 Deep upright bowls or cups -- 3.1.2.5 Tripod bowls -- 3.1.3 Mortar bowls -- 3.1.3.1 Upright mortar bowls -- 3.1.3.2 Everted mortar bowls -- 3.1.3.3 Triangular mortar bowls or lamps -- 3.1.3.4 Pedestal mortar bowls -- 3.1.3.5 Tripod mortar bowls -- 3.1.3.6 Footed mortar bowls with four legs -- 3.1.4 Mortars -- 3.1.5 Pot bellows -- 3.1.6 Funnels and tuyères -- 3.1.7 Basins -- 3.1.8 Tables -- 3.1.9 Lids and stoppers -- 3.1.10 Diagnostic fragments -- 3.2 Levantine decorative styles -- 3.2.1 Decorated temple installations -- 3.2.2 Decorated plates and bowls -- 3.3 The characteristics of Levantine stone vessel workshops -- 4 Vessels of uncertain origin -- 5 The relationships between stone vessel workshops and craftsmen working with other materials -- 6 The influence of imported forms on local stone workshops -- CHAPTER FOUR MATERIALS AND SOURCES -- 1 Introduction

Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age

Author : Pat Getz-Gentle
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0271015357
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age written by Pat Getz-Gentle and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of early Egypt and Minoan Crete, no early culture had such a vigorous stone vase-making industry as the Cyclades. Figures and vessels of stone, overwhelmingly of marble, are the most distinctive and appealing products of the Early Cycladic culture. The vessels, like the better-known figures, formed a special class of object that conformed to a strict traditional typology. Ranging from charming miniatures to works of impressive size, they often show a striking purity of form, beauty of material, and excellence in their workmanship. Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age is the first comprehensive study of these vessels. For each vessel type, Pat Getz-Gentle considers the material used, the size range, and the formal characteristics and the extent of their variation. She also discusses manufacturing methods, the incidence of repairs occasioned by accidental damage, and the possible function or functions, as well as the development, frequency, dating, and distribution of each vessel type within the Cyclades and beyond. She stresses the human element--how the vessels were used, held, and carried; how much they weigh; and how much they hold. She examines the sculptors who made them--how they might have designed and executed their works, how on occasion they seem to have modified their original plans, and how they stand out as individual artists working within a traditional craft. The 114 plates, with more than 500 separate photographs, illustrate works that show both the homogeneity and the diversity within each type.

Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes

Author : Andrew Bevan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107355532
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes by : Andrew Bevan

Download or read book Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes written by Andrew Bevan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and long-term human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the past half-century, engaging large swathes of the social and natural sciences. This book brings these traditions together in considering Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of the Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course of its human history. Small islands are particularly interesting because their human, plant and animal populations often experience abrupt demographic changes, including periods of near-complete abandonment and recolonization, and Antikythera proves to be one of the best-documented examples of these shifts over time. Small islands also play eccentric but revealing roles in wider social, economic and political networks, serving as places for refugees, hunters, modern eco-tourists, political exiles, hermits and pirates. Antikythera is a rare case of an island that has been investigated in its entirety from several systematic fieldwork and disciplinary perspectives, not least of which is an intensive archaeological survey. The authors use the resulting evidence to offer a unique vantage on settlement and land use histories.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019024075X
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean written by Eric H. Cline and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution of early Greek religious practices and mythology. The period also witnessed a violent conflict in Asia Minor between warring peoples in the region, a conflict commonly believed to be the historical basis for Homer's Trojan War. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean provides a detailed survey of these fascinating aspects of the period, and many others, in sixty-six newly commissioned articles. Divided into four sections, the handbook begins with Background and Definitions, which contains articles establishing the discipline in its historical, geographical, and chronological settings and in its relation to other disciplines. The second section, Chronology and Geography, contains articles examining the Bronze Age Aegean by chronological period (Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age). Each of the periods are further subdivided geographically, so that individual articles are concerned with Mainland Greece during the Early Bronze Age, Crete during the Early Bronze Age, the Cycladic Islands during the Early Bronze Age, and the same for the Middle Bronze Age, followed by the Late Bronze Age. The third section, Thematic and Specific Topics, includes articles examining thematic topics that cannot be done justice in a strictly chronological/geographical treatment, including religion, state and society, trade, warfare, pottery, writing, and burial customs, as well as specific events, such as the eruption of Santorini and the Trojan War. The fourth section, Specific Sites and Areas, contains articles examining the most important regions and sites in the Bronze Age Aegean, including Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos, Knossos, Kommos, Rhodes, the northern Aegean, and the Uluburun shipwreck, as well as adjacent areas such as the Levant, Egypt, and the western Mediterranean. Containing new work by an international team of experts, The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean represents the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume survey of the field. It will be indispensable for scholars and advanced students alike.

The Afterlives of Egyptian History

Author : Yekaterina Barbash
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649030576
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Afterlives of Egyptian History written by Yekaterina Barbash and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the myriad lifetimes lived by ancient Egyptian artifacts Egypt has a particular longue durée, a continuity of preservation in deep time, not seen in other parts of the world. Over the centuries, ancient buildings have been adopted for purposes that differed from the original. Temple sites have been transformed into places of worship for new deities or turned into houses and tombs. Tombs, in turn, have been adapted to function as human dwellings already in the Late Antique Period. The Afterlives of Egyptian History expands on the traditional academic approach of studying the original function and sociopolitical circumstances of ancient Egyptian objects, texts, and sites to examine their secondary lives by exploring their reuse, modification, and reinterpretation. Written in honor of the Egyptologist, Edward Bleiberg, this volume brings together a group of luminous scholars from a wide range of fields, including Egyptian archaeology, philology, conservation, and art, to explore the historical circumstances, as well as political and economic situations, of people who have come into contact with ancient Egypt, both in antiquity and in more recent times. Contributor Affiliations: Yekaterina Barbash, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Lisa Bruno, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Simon Connor, F.R.S.–FNRS, Brussels, Belgium and University of Liege, Liege, Belgium Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA Richard Fazzini, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Peter Lacovara, Ancient Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage Fund, Albany, NY USA Ronald J. Leprohon, University of Toronto, Canada Mary McKercher, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA Edmund Meltzer, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, California USA Joachim Friedrich Quack, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio USA Paul Edmund Stanwick, independent scholar, New York, NY USA Emily Teeter, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA Kathy Zurek-Doule, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY USA

Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

Author : Chloë N. Duckworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351682962
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art written by Chloë N. Duckworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging scholars including art historians, archaeologists, and conservators, who address the variety of human experience of these sensory phenomena. In today’s world it is the norm for humans to be surrounded by strong, artificial colours, and even to see colour as perhaps an inessential or surface property of the objects around us. Similarly, electric lighting has provided the power and ability to illuminate and manipulate environments in increasingly unprecedented ways. In the context of such a saturated experience, it becomes difficult to identify what is universal, and what is culturally specific about the human experience of light and colour. Failing to do so, however, hinders the capacity to approach how they were experienced by people of centuries past. By means of case studies spanning a broad historical and geographical context and covering such diverse themes as architecture, cave art, the invention of metallurgy, and medieval manuscript illumination, the contributors to this volume provide an up-to-date discussion of these themes from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. The papers range in scope from the meaning of colour in European prehistoric art to the technical art of the glazed tiles of the Shah mosque in Isfahan. Their aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate and illuminate what is a truly enigmatic topic in the history of art and visual culture.

Prehistoric Crete

Author : Joanne M. Murphy
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623031176
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Crete written by Joanne M. Murphy and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have played seminal roles in our understanding of Minoan culture and the reconstruction of Bronze Age society. For several geographical areas and chronological periods of Cretan history, tombs are the most abundant source of data. Each author in this volume takes a clear and distinct approach to the data, including some that emphasize political geography on multi-regional and multi-scalar levels, some that examine the commemoration of the dead and of the community for legitimizing purposes but also for maintaining and/or creating elite positions in social systems, and others that underline the overlap between mortuary rituals and religion. The aim of this volume is not to present all tombs in all periods on Crete comprehensively, but the breadth of these papers is intended generate a discourse not just among archaeologists working in different areas and time periods on Crete but also among archaeologists in Greece and a broader anthropological audience.

Communication Uneven

Author : Jan Driessen
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2390610870
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Communication Uneven written by Jan Driessen and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this volume is to measure acceptance of, and resistance to, outside influences within Mediterranean coastal settlements and their immediate hinterlands, with a particular focus on the processes not reflecting simple commercial routes, but taking place at an intercultural level, in situations of developed connectedness.

Softstone: Approaches to the study of chlorite and calcite vessels in the Middle East and Central Asia from prehistory to the present

Author : Carl S. Phillips
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784919934
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Softstone: Approaches to the study of chlorite and calcite vessels in the Middle East and Central Asia from prehistory to the present written by Carl S. Phillips and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone containers have been made and used in the Middle East for over eleven millennia where they pre-dated the invention of pottery. This is the first attempt to bring together different approaches to the study of softstone vessels, particularly those carved from varieties of chlorite, and covering all periods from prehistory to the present.

Kleronomia

Author : Jerolyn E. Morrison
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034337
Total Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book Kleronomia written by Jerolyn E. Morrison and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 27 papers in this volume harken to the themes that Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewelry, the development of the Minoan settlement of Mochlos in eastern Crete, and the rise and fall of the Minoan civilization.

The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe

Author : Francesco Iacono
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350036161
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe written by Francesco Iacono and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interaction and mobility have attracted much interest in research within scholarly fields as different as archaeology, history, and more broadly the humanities. Critically assessing some of the most widespread views on interaction and its social impact, this book proposes an innovative perspective which combines radical social theory and currently burgeoning network methodologies. Through an in-depth analysis of a wealth of data often difficult to access, and illustrated by many diagrams and maps, the book highlights connections and their social implications at different scales ranging from the individual settlement to the Mediterranean. The resulting diachronic narrative explores social and economic trajectories over some seven centuries and sheds new light on the broad historical trends affecting the life of people living around the Middle Sea. The Bronze Age is the first period of intense interaction between early state societies of the Eastern Mediterranean and the small-scale communities to the west of Greece, with people and goods moving at a scale previously unprecedented. This encounter is explored from the vantage point of one of its main foci: Apulia, located in the southern Adriatic, at the junction between East and West and the entryway of one of the major routes for the resource-rich European continent.

Circuits of Metal Value

Author : Toby C. Wilkinson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789259622
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Circuits of Metal Value written by Toby C. Wilkinson and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the part played by different metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in the Aegean but also in the wider Old World. It addresses the divergent uses and roles of different metals, the interrelationships of these roles and the changing values that may have been accorded to them at different times and in different places by producers and consumers. Individually, the papers in the volume contemplate the particular properties of different metals and the various issues concerning their frequent under-representation in the archaeological (but not necessarily textual) record, and also point out comparative and diachronic perspectives that may have the ability to offer insights into their important roles in wider cultural and historical changes over a period of several millennia. After the Introduction and Chapter 1, which reflects on some of the parameters involved in the term ‘precious’ as applied to metals, the remaining six chapters cover the Aegean and the networks that link the Aegean with Italy, Cyprus and the Near East more generally, and south-east Anatolia and the Caucasus. Between them they discuss the beginnings of regular iron metallurgy, the uses of and attitudes to gold, silver and bronze and other copper-based alloys at various times between the fourth millennium BC and the Early Iron Age.