Containers of Change: Ancient Container Technologies from Eastern to Western Asia - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 9464270527 ISBN 13 : 9789464270525

Editeur : Sidestone Press, 2023

Synopsis

Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions – so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing pre-existing container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials including clay, bitumen, basketry, leather, wood, and stone. How did prehistoric people respond to the emergence of containers as a key factor in their lives?

Building on Olivier Nieuwenhuyse’s rich scholarly legacy, this volume brings together 18 papers by leading scholars in the field of container technology, discussing cases from eastern Asia to Africa, but with a focus on prehistoric Western Asia. Looking not just at pottery but also explicitly beyond, the contributions consider and address the cross-overs of different kinds of raw materials for containers and their crafting; the multiplicity of temporal scales in the production, use and discard of pottery; the social anchoring of vessels’ use and deposition as evident in their specific contexts; and local as well as regional variations in early pottery.

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À propos des auteurs

Olivier Nieuwenhuyse Is A Humboldt Fellow At The Institut Für Vorderasiatische Archäologie (Freie Universität Berlin). Since Completing His Phd At Leiden University In 2007 He Has Conducted Extensive Fieldwork Across The Middle East. His Main Research Interests Are In The Later Prehistoric Societies Of The Ancient Near East

Reinhard Bernbeck is professor at the Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. Previously, he taught at Bryn Mawr College and in the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University.

Apart from the work in Turkmenistan reported here, he has pursued fieldwork in Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, and more recently in Germany, where he has worked on sites of conflict from the last century. He has a long-standing interest in the political and ideological dimensions of archaeology, as well as in the emergence of social inequalities.

He has authored several monographs, among them Theorien in der Archäologie (1997) and recently Materielle Spuren des nationalsozialistischen Terrors (2017). He has co-edited numerous books, including Ideologies in Archaeology (with Randall H. McGuire, 2011), Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology (with Ruth Van Dyke, 2015), and Interpreting the Late Neolithic in Upper Mesopotamia (with Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Peter M.M.G. Akkermans and Jana Rogasch, 2013).

Koen Berghuijs holds a B.A. in Archaeology and an M.A. in Archaeology of the Near East from Leiden University. A former student of the late Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Koen has published on (Late) Neolithic ceramics and basketry remains from various sites in Syria and Iraq and on more recent petroglyphs from the Jordanian Black Desert. He has participated in several survey and excavation projects in the Netherlands, Jordan, and Oman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sidestone Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9464270527
• ISBN 13: 9789464270525
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Éditeur: Nieuwenhuyse Olivier P, Bernbeck Reinhard, Berghuijs Koen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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