Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete

Informationen zum Autor Emily S. K. Anderson teaches in the Departments of Classics and History of Art at The Johns Hopkins University, where her research primarily concerns the material and visual cultures of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean Bronze Ages. Klappentext Early Minoan Crete is re-envisioned as a space of social innovation, in which change occurred through people and objects. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the numerous sealstones which have been excavated across Crete! current discussions of material culture! community and space in the second millennium BCE are merged in an interdisciplinary approach. Reframing the origins of 'palace' society in the Aegean! this book will be of value to researchers and graduate students. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Rethinking prepalatial Crete - social innovation on an island of persistence; 2. Identity and relation through early Cretan glyptic; 3. Distance and nearness - fundamental changes to the dynamics of seal use in late prepalatial Crete; 4. In the hands of the craftsperson - innovation and repetition across Cretan communities; 5. The crafting of new social space - relation and incorporation in late prepalatial Crete.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Anderson, Emily S K Anderson, Emily S K. Anderson, Emily S. K. Anderson, Emily S. K. (The Johns Hopkins Universit Anderson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107131194
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13119-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Crete, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Prehistoric archaeology