Stone Vessels In The Near East During The Iron Age And The Persian Period

Author : Andrea Squitieri
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178491553X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period written by Andrea Squitieri and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the characteristics and the development of the stone vessel industry in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian period (c. 1200 – 330 BCE).

Author : Andrea Squitieri
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789690617
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt written by Andrea Squitieri and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focusses on ground stone tools, stone vessels, and devices carved into rock across the Near East and Egypt from prehistory to the later periods. The aim is to explore all aspects of these tools and stimulate a debate about new methodologies to approach this material.

Author : Carl S. Phillips
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784919934
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Softstone: Approaches to the study of chlorite and calcite vessels in the Middle East and Central Asia from prehistory to the present written by Carl S. Phillips and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone containers have been made and used in the Middle East for over eleven millennia where they pre-dated the invention of pottery. This is the first attempt to bring together different approaches to the study of softstone vessels, particularly those carved from varieties of chlorite, and covering all periods from prehistory to the present.

Author : Mark Altaweel
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1911576631
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionizing a World written by Mark Altaweel and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East’s social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Central Asia, and from north to south, Anatolia to southern Arabia, incorporating modern-day Oman and Yemen. Its temporal coverage spans from the late eighth century BCE to the seventh century CE during the rise of Islam and collapse of the Sasanian Empire. The authors argue that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. The primary processes that enabled this emergence were large-scale and long-distance movements, or population migrations. These patterns of social developments are analysed under different aspects: settlement patterns, urban structure, material culture, trade, governance, language spread and religion, all pointing at movement as the main catalyst for social change. This book’s argument is framed within a larger theoretical framework termed as ‘universalism’, a theory that explains many of the social transformations that happened to societies in the Near East, starting from the Neo-Assyrian period and continuing for centuries. Among other influences, the effects of these transformations are today manifested in modern languages, concepts of government, universal religions and monetized and globalized economies.

Author : Andrea Squitieri
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781789690606
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt written by Andrea Squitieri and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focusses on ground stone tools, stone vessels, and devices carved into rock across the Near East and Egypt from prehistory to the later periods. The aim is to explore all aspects of these tools and stimulate a debate about new methodologies to approach this material.

Author : Andrew Bevan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139467107
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean written by Andrew Bevan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 artefact in the early history of this region. As a form of archaeological evidence, they offer important analytical advantages over other artefact 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. In this 2007 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).

Author : Guy Bunnens
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789258391
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell Ahmar on the Syrian Euphrates written by Guy Bunnens and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell Ahmar – also known as Masuwari, Til Barsib and Kar-Shalmaneser in the first millennium BCE – was first inhabited in the sixth millennium, during the Ubaid period, and progressively developed to become a regional center and, in the eighth and seventh centuries, a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire. Remains from the third millennium (a temple and a funerary complex), the second millennium (an administrative complex and well-preserved houses) and the first millennium (an Assyrian palace and elite residences) are particularly impressive. The book offers an archaeological and historical synthesis of the results obtained by the excavations of François Thureau-Dangin (1929–1931) and by the more recent excavations of the universities of Melbourne (1988–1999) and Liège (2000–2010). It presents a comprehensive and diachronic view of the evolution of the site, which, by its position on the Euphrates at an important crossroads of ancient communication routes, was at the heart of a game of cultural and political interference between Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean world and Asia Minor.

Author : Guido Guarducci
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Symbols written by Guido Guarducci and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different scales. This third volume in the Material Religion in Antiquity series stems from the First International Congress on the Archaeology of Symbols (ICAS I) that took place in Florence in May 2022. The archaeological process of reconstructing and understanding our past has undergone several reassessments in the last century, producing an equal number of new perspectives and approaches. The recent materiality turn emphasizes the necessity to ground those achievements in order to build fresh avenues of interpretation and reach new boundaries in the study of the human kind and its ecology. Symbols must not be conceived only as allegory but also, and perhaps mainly, as reason (raison d’être) and meaning (culture). They may be considered key elements leading to interpretation, not only in their physical manifestation but by being infused with the gestures, beliefs and intentions of their creators, created in a specific context and with a specific chaîne opératoire. In this volume a variety of case studies is offered, representing disparate ancient cultures in the Mediterranean and central Europe and the Near East. The thread that connects them revolves around the prominence of symbols and allegorical aspects in archaeology, whether they are considered as expressions of iconographic evidence, material culture or ritual ceremonies, seen from a multicultural perspective. This (and subsequent ICAS) volumes, therefore, aims to embrace all the different aspects pertaining to symbols in archaeology in a specific ‘place’, allowing the reader to deepen their knowledge of such a fascinating and multifaceted topic, by looking at it from a multicultural perspective.

Author : Suzanne Richard
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575065479
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Near Eastern Archaeology written by Suzanne Richard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reprint of the cloth original Winner of the 2004 Outstanding Academic Title award from the American Library Association! Filling a gap in classroom texts, more than 60 essays by major scholars in the field have been gathered to create the most up-to-date and complete book available on Levantine and Near Eastern archaeology.

Author : RachaelThyrza Sparks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135154778X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Vessels in the Levant written by RachaelThyrza Sparks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining stone vessels in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BC, the author explores the links between material culture and society through a comprehensive study of production and distribution. Extensively illustrated with 100 drawings, maps and charts, this volume includes a full object catalogue.This study represents the first comprehensive overview of the stone vessel assemblagesof the Levant in this period, a time which, fed by an increase of wealth and interregional trade, saw a growth in the popularity and variety of such vessels.Previously, our understanding of the varied functions and forms of these diverse vessels has been relatively underdeveloped. In this volume the author attempts to address this problem by creating a typological framework though which we can analyse variability and define essential characteristics of local stone vessel workshops. Only once this has been achieved is it possible to look at stone vessel production in its wider cultural context. Subsequent chapters explore broader themes, beginning within the workshops themselves, examining the links between craftsmen, their sources of raw materials, and the authorities that controlled and distributed their output. Considerations of the geographical and chronological distribution of such goods are then used to provide a regional perspective for the operation of these workshops, connections between them, and further insights into the nature of local and international trade. Finally, the objects themselves can be used to assess the impact of trends such as the growing Egyptianization of the ruling classes of the Levant at this time.