Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

Klappentext In this 2007 book, Andrew Bevan considers individual stone vessel industries during the Bronze Age. Zusammenfassung 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). Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Agreeing on things; 3. Moving people, objects and ideas; 4. Making stone vessels; 5. The third millennium BC; 6. The earlier second millennium; 7. The later second millennium; 8. The rough and the smooth: stone vessels from a comparative perspective; 9. Forging value and casting stones; Appendix.

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• Authors: Andrew Bevan, Andrew (University College London) Bevan, Bevan Andrew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107406612
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40661-2
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Mediterranean countries, Prehistoric archaeology