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

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

Stone containers have been made and used in the Middle East for over eleven millennia where they pre-dated the invention of pottery and were widely traded. The appearance or properties of the stone helped govern how stone vessels were valued or used and many classes were strictly utilitarian, being...

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Other Authors: Phillips, Carl S. (Editor), Simpson, St John (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018.

Series: British Foundation for the Study of Arabia monographs ; 20.

Subjects:

Excavations (Archaeology) > Asia.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East.
Stone vases > Asia.
Stone vases > Middle East.
Asia > Antiquities.
Middle East > Antiquities.

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