Ceramics, cuisine and culture : the archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world /
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"The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian 'technomic' category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioural schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence"--Publisher's information.
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viii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781782979470
9781782979487
Dalmatia and the Mediterranean : portable archeology and the poetics of influence /
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Using the Braudelian concept of the Mediterranean this volume focuses on the condition of "coastal exchanges" involving the Dalmatian littoral and its Adriatic and more distant maritime network. Spalato and Ragusa intersect with Constantinople, Cairo and Spanish Naples just as Sinan, Palladio and Robert Adam cross paths in this liquid expanse. Concentrating on materiality and on the arts, architecture in particular, the authors identify portability and hybridity as characteristic of these exchanges, and tease out expected and unexpected serendipitous moments when they occurred. Focusing on translation and its instruments these essays expand the traditional concept of influence by thrusting mobility and the \'hardware\' of cultural transmission, its mechanisms, rather than its effects, into the foreground. Contributors include: Doris Behrens-Abouseif , SOAS, University of London ; Joško Belamarić , Institute of Art History , Split; Marzia Faietti , Uffizi , Florence; Jasenka Gudelj , University of Zagreb ; Cemal Kafadar , Harvard University ; Ioli Kalavrezou , Harvard University ; Suzanne Marchand , State University of Louisiana ; Erika Naginski , Harvard University ; Gülru Necipoğlu , Harvard University ; Goran Nikšić , City of Split , Split; Alina Payne , Harvard University ; Avinoam Shalem , Columbia University and David Young Kim , University of Pennsylvania
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004263918 :
2213-3399 ;
Composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East : exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature /
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This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East by looking at the complex relationships between environments, materials, societies and materiality.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 96 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781784918545 (ebook) :
Identifying Brúnanburh : ón dyngesmere : the sea of noise /
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In this study the author uses topographic references found in the manuscript of the poem 'Brúnanburh' to try and locate the 'site' of this momentous battle. The first references were maritime then latterly landscape leading to field-names which have a more stable base than the constantly changing place-names.
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Previously issued in print: 2019. :
1 online resource (44 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
9781789691085 (ebook) :
Remembered places, forgotten pasts : the Don drainage basin in Prehistory /
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South Yorkshire and the North Midlands have long been ignored or marginalized in narratives of British Prehistory. In this book, unpublished data is used for the first time in a work of synthesis to reconstruct the prehistory of the earliest communities across the River Don drainage basin.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917029 (ebook) :
Perspectives on materiality in ancient Egypt : agency, cultural reproduction and change /
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Growing out of a colloquium organised in Sao Paulo in March 2016, here nine papers approach the potential of materiality in Ancient Egypt based on several case studies covering a wide range of topics such as Egyptian art, recent perspectives on sex and gender, hierarchies, and the materiality of textual sources and images.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (iv, 110 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
Specialized. :
9781784919344 (ebook) :