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Author: Graham Philip Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 9781841271354 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 448
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This book sets out the primary issues and current debates in the use of ceramics to reconstruct and explain cultural economic and social processes in the Early Bronze age. By bringing together research on pottery from various parts of the southern Levant, it allows direct comparison of contemporary material from different regions. Alongside these empirical studies are discussions of general ceramic issues, so that the book highlights the potential of pottery as an investigative tool, and indicates fruitful directions for future research within the traditionally conservative field of Levantine archaeology.
Author: Joanna Sofaer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316395243 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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Studies of creativity frequently focus on the modern era yet creativity has always been part of human history. This book explores how creativity was expressed through the medium of clay in the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin. Although metal is one of the defining characteristics of Bronze Age Europe, in the Carpathian Basin clay was the dominant material in many areas of life. Here the daily experience of people was, therefore, much more likely to be related to clay than bronze. Through eight thematic essays, this book considers a series of different facets of creativity. Each essay combines a broad range of theoretical insights with a specific case study of ceramic forms, sites or individual objects. This innovative volume is the first to focus on creativity in the Bronze Age and offers new insights into the rich and complex archaeology of the Carpathian Basin.
Author: Lise Bender Jørgensen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108381758 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 359
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Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.
Author: Philip P. Betancourt Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press ISBN: 1623030099 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 161
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This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological, social, and religious advancements we call the Early Bronze Age. The arguments are two-fold: a detailed explanation of the ceramics we call Early Minoan I and the differences that set it apart from its predecessors, and an explanation of how these new and highly superior containers changed the storage, transport, and accumulation of a new form of wealth consisting primarily of processed agricultural and animal products like wine, olive oil, and various foods preserved in wine, vinegar, honey, and other liquids. The increased stability and security provided by an improved ability to store food from one year to the next would have a profound effect on the society.
Author: Raphael Greenberg Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107111463 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.
Author: Stephen L. Sass Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 1611454018 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
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Demonstrates the way in which the discovery, application, and adaptation of materials has shaped the course of human history and the routines of our daily existence.
Author: Clay Mathers Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: 9780906090497 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 367
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This book brings together for the first time a detailed, comparative view of Bronze Age communities in key areas of the Mediterranean basin. Each of the eleven regional studies contains consideration of technology, economic competition, regional settlement patterns, subsistence, social and political organisation, defence and ritual. Contributors include: C Mathers (Contrasting patterns of change in the south-east Iberian Bronze Age); R J Harrison (The Bronze Age in northern and northeastern Spain); J Gasco (Development and decline in the Bronze Age of southern France); L Barfield (The Bronze Age of northern Italy); G Barker & S Stoddart (The Bronze Age of central Italy); C Malone, S Stoddart & R Whitehouse (The Bronze Age of southern Italy, Sicily and Malta); P Halstead (Regional paths to complexity in prehistoric Greece); S W Manning (Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades); A Bernard Knapp (Bronze Age Cyprus); S E Falconer (Urbanism and ruralism in the southern Levant); A Sherratt (Perspectives on the Bronze Age).
Author: Joanna Sofaer
Author: Joanna Sofaer
Author: Graham Philip
Author: Joanna Sofaer
Author: John Abercromby
Author: Lise Bender Jørgensen
Author: Philip P. Betancourt
Author: Raphael Greenberg
Author: Robert M. Engberg
Author: Stephen L. Sass
Author: Clay Mathers