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Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

by: Bevan, A.

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Category: Minoan / Mycenaean / Aegean / Mediterranean Bronze Age
Code: 5852
ISBN-13: 9780521880800 / 978-0-521-88080-0
ISBN-10: 0521880807 / 0-521-88080-7
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2007
Publication Place: Cambridge
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 310
Book Condition: New
Comments: xi, 301 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.

Stone vessels and values in the Bronze age Mediterranean

Author:Andrew Bevan

Summary:"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 artifact in the early history of this region. As a form of archaeological evidence, they offer important analytical advantages over other artifact 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. Stone also has wide anthropological and archaeological relevance. It offers a favorable vantage from which to consider concepts of object value and how these might be approached in the archaeological record. In this 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).


xi, 301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm


Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgments vi
1 Introduction 1
Comparative Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Agreeing on things 11
Classification and Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Social Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Wealth Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3 Moving people, objects and ideas 28
Moving around the eastern Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bronze Age Economies and Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Behind Bronze Age Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Scale in the Archaeological Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Merchants and Their Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Third Millennium Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Earlier Second Millennium Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Later Second Millennium Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4 Making Stone Vessels 59
The Working Properties of Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Unassisted Manual Abrasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Carving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Pounding and Sawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Drilling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Cutting Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Drill-bit Driving Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Drilling Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
A Template Production Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Bronze Age Production Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
The Levant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anatolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
The Aegean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5 The Third Millennium BC 91
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
The Pre-Third Millennium Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Early Dynastic and earlier Old Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Later Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period . . . . . . . 106
The Levant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
The Pre-Third Millennium Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Egyptian Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Non-Egyptian Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Cyprus and Central Anatolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
The Aegean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Pre-Third Millennium Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Grotta-Pelos Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Keros-Syros Phase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
EMIIA Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Later Prepalatial Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Trade Beyond Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
6 The Earlier Second Millennium 150
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The Middle Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The Second Intermediate Period and Early 18th Dynasty . . . . . 152
The Levant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Egyptian-style Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Levantine Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Anatolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
The Aegean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Protopalatial Crete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
The Neopalatial Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
7 The Later Second Millennium 205
Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
The mid-18th Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
The Amarna Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
The 19th Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
The Levant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Egyptian-style Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Southern Levantine Gypsum Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Cyprus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Egyptian-style Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Local Cypriot Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Anatolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
The Aegean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Egyptian, Cypriot and Levantine Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
LMII-III Knossos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Mycenae Ivory Houses-style Vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
8 The Rough and the Smooth: Stone Vessels from a Comparative Perspective
254
Stone Vessels in Small-Scale Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Softstone Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Light-Coloured Softstones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Dark-Coloured Softstones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Complex Stone Vessel Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
9 Forging Value and Casting Stones 282
After the Bronze Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Vessels and Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Future Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Appendix ¿ Typological Guide 297
Egypt (E-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Egyptian-style (Es-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Levant (L-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Cyprus (Cyp-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Anatolia (A-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Crete (C-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Mycenaean-style vessels (M-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Cyclades (Cyc-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

 
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Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

by: Bevan, A.

  • ISBN-13: 9780521880800 / 978-0-521-88080-0
  • ISBN-03: 0521880807 / 0-521-88080-7
  • Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

Price: 69,00 EURO

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