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Author | : Matthew G. Knight |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2022-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789256984 |
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The destruction and deposition of metalwork is a widely recognised phenomenon across Bronze Age Europe. Weapons were decommissioned and thrown into rivers; axes were fragmented and piled in hoards; and ornaments were crushed, contorted and placed in certain landscapes. Interpretation of this material is often considered in terms of whether such acts should be considered ritual offerings, or functional acts for storing, scrapping and recycling the metal. This book approaches this debate from a fresh perspective, by focusing on how the metalwork was destroyed and deposited as a means to understand the reasons behind the process. To achieve this, this study draws on experimental archaeology, as well as developing a framework for assessing what can be considered deliberate destruction. Understanding these processes not only helps us to recognise how destruction happened, but also gives us insights into the individuals involved in these practices. Through an examination of metalwork from south-west Britain, it is possible to observe the complexities involved at a localised level in the acts of destruction and deposition, as well as how they were linked to people and places. This case study is used to consider the social role of destruction and deposition more broadly in the Bronze Age, highlighting how it transformed over time and space.
Author | : Matthew G. Knight |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2022-02-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178925700X |
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The destruction and deposition of metalwork is a widely recognised phenomenon across Bronze Age Europe. Weapons were decommissioned and thrown into rivers; axes were fragmented and piled in hoards; and ornaments were crushed, contorted and placed in certain landscapes. Interpretation of this material is often considered in terms of whether such acts should be considered ritual offerings, or functional acts for storing, scrapping and recycling the metal. This book approaches this debate from a fresh perspective, by focusing on how the metalwork was destroyed and deposited as a means to understand the reasons behind the process. To achieve this, this study draws on experimental archaeology, as well as developing a framework for assessing what can be considered deliberate destruction. Understanding these processes not only helps us to recognise how destruction happened, but also gives us insights into the individuals involved in these practices. Through an examination of metalwork from south-west Britain, it is possible to observe the complexities involved at a localised level in the acts of destruction and deposition, as well as how they were linked to people and places. This case study is used to consider the social role of destruction and deposition more broadly in the Bronze Age, highlighting how it transformed over time and space.
Author | : Raphael Greenberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2019-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107111463 |
Download The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.
Author | : Robert Drews |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691209979 |
Download The End of the Bronze Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.
Author | : Matthew Rutz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004245685 |
Download Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Bodies of Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia Matthew Rutz explores the relationship between ancient collections of texts, commonly deemed libraries and archives, and the modern interpretation of titles like ‘diviner’. By looking at cuneiform tablets as artifacts with archaeological contexts, this work probes the modern analytical categories used to study ancient diviners and investigates the transmission of Babylonian/Assyrian scholarship in Syria. During the Late Bronze Age diviners acted as high-ranking scribes and cultic functionaries in Emar, a town on the Syrian Euphrates (ca. 1375-1175 BCE). This book’s centerpiece is an extensive analytical catalogue of the excavated tablet collection of one family of diviners. Over seventy-five fragments are identified for the first time, along with many proposed joins between fragments.
Author | : Antonio Sagona |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1107016592 |
Download The Archaeology of the Caucasus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This conspectus brings together in an accessible and systematic manner a dizzy array of archaeological cultures situated between several worlds.
Author | : Victoria Ruth Ginn |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2016-01-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784912441 |
Download Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study examines Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. The results reveal a distinct rise in the visibility, and a rapid adaption, of domestic architecture, which seems to have occurred earlier in Ireland than elsewhere in western and northern Europe.
Author | : Martyn Barber |
Publisher | : Tempus Publishing, Limited |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : |
Download Bronze and the Bronze Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The authors explains how and why metal objects were made and used during the 1500 years of the Bronze age and shows their significance for the people who used them.
Author | : Harry Fokkens |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2008-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782975195 |
Download Bronze Age Settlements in the Low Countries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Low Countries around the deltas of the river Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt have a long tradition in large scale archaeological research. This book brings together research from thirteen of the largest Bronze Age settlements described by their original excavators. These contributions are preceded by two introductory chapters written by the editors, providing a full overview of the state of Dutch Bronze Age settlement research, the key sites and the explanatory models current within it. Standards have been developed for the analysis of Bronze Age house plans and settlement sites and new models for the reading of the settled landscape. The rich data of the Low Countries also incorporate burial areas and deposition places. The findings presented can be seen to reflect the situation over a large area of lands bordering the North Sea.
Author | : Jens-Henrik Bech |
Publisher | : Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2018-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8793423306 |
Download Bronze Age Settlement and Land-Use in Thy, Northwest Denmark (Volume 1 & 2) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This two volume monograph about the region of Thy in the early Bronze Age provides a high resolution archaeological and ecological model of the organisation of landscape, settlements and households during the period 1500-1100 BC. Bordering the North Sea to the west, and the calmer waters of the Limfjord to the east, the region of Thy in Denmark experienced four centuries of intense economic and demographic expansion. By combining results from environmental and economic research (pollen and palaeo-botanical analyses) with intensive field surveys and excavations of farmsteads with exceptional preservation, it has been possible to open a window to the changes that transformed Bronze Age society and its environment during a few centuries of exceptional expansion and wealth consumption. The results from this interdisciplinary venture made it possible to link together the histories of local farmsteads with the wider regional and global history of the Bronze Age in North-western Europe during this period. Here is much to feed on for students and researchers of the Bronze Age alike.