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This study examines the distribution of high-status materials in addition to archaeological evidence of their production in the settlements known as royal cities during the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC). The research focuses on the site sites of Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, but incorporates Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction and Background
- 2: Amarna: Urban Manufacture of Luxury Items
- 3: Gurob: Luxury Goods Manufacture in a Harbour- and Palace City
- 4: Malqata: Manufacturing at a Ceremonial Settlement
- 5: Luxury-Goods Manufacture at Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata in Comparison
- 6: he Workshop as a Microcosm: Workshops and Factories in Urban Settlements
- 7: Household- or Cottage Industries: Modelling Industrial diversity in New Kingdom Houses and Courtyards
- 8: Conclusions
About the author
Dr Anna K. Hodgkinson has over ten years of archaeological fieldwork and data processing experience, having worked as an archaeologist and a GIS specialist in the UK, France, and Egypt, where she has worked at Amarna, Gurob, and Qantir/ Pi-Ramesse. She furthermore directed her own fieldwork at Amarna in 2014, where her team excavated a domestic industrial workshop. Hodgkinson has published papers on Egyptian archaeology as well as on the use of GIS software in archaeology. In 2014, the author carried out a fellowship at the British Museum in London. Since October 2015, she holds Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship at the Freie Universität, Berlin
Summary
This study examines the distribution of high-status materials in addition to archaeological evidence of their production in the settlements known as royal cities during the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC). The research focuses on the site sites of Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, but incorporates Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison.
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[a] path-breaking contribution to the field of settlement archaeology and the understanding of craft production. The study has relevance also beyond Egyptology to an interdisciplinary audience, especially for methodological reasons. The author has to be congratulated on this essential and appealing publication that has laid an excellent foundation for a variety of further questions.
