Making Large Storage Jars
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Political Change And Material Culture In Middle To Late Bronze Age Canaan
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Author : Shlomit Bechar
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2022-08-02
Political Change And Material Culture In Middle To Late Bronze Age Canaan written by Shlomit Bechar and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-02 with Social Science categories.
Do shifts in material culture instigate administrative change, or is it the shifting political winds that affect material culture? This is the central question that Shlomit Bechar addresses in this book, taking the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age (seventeenth–fourteenth centuries BCE) in northern Canaan as a test case. Combining archaeological and historical analysis, Bechar identifies the most significant changes evident in architectural and ceramic remains from this period and then explores how and why contemporary political shifts may have influenced, or been influenced by, these developments. Bechar persuasively argues that the Egyptian conquest of the southern Levant—enabled by local economic decline following the expulsion of the Hyksos and the fall of northern Syrian cities—was the impetus for these changes in ceramics and architecture. Using a macro-typological approach to examine the ceramic assemblages, she also discusses the impact of the influx of Aegean imports, suggesting that while “attached specialists” were primarily responsible for ceramic production in the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age ceramics were increasingly made by “independent specialists,” another important result of the new administrative system created following Thutmose III’s campaign. An important contribution to our understanding of the transition between the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, this original and insightful book will appeal to specialists in the Bronze Age Levant, especially those interested in using ceramic assemblages to examine social and political change.
Griot Potters Of The Folona
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Author : Barbara E. Frank
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-02
Griot Potters Of The Folona written by Barbara E. Frank and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-02 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Griot Potters of the Folona reconstructs the past of a particular group of West African women potters using evidence found in their artistry and techniques. The potters of the Folona region of southeastern Mali serve a diverse clientele and firing thousands of pots weekly during the height of the dry season. Although they identify themselves as Mande, the unique styles and types of objects the Folona women make, and more importantly, the way they form and fire them, are fundamentally different from Mande potters to the north and west. Through a brilliant comparative analysis of pottery production methods across the region, especially how the pots are formed and the way the techniques are taught by mothers to daughters, Barbara Frank concludes that the mothers of the potters of the Folona very likely came from the south and east, marrying Mande griots (West African leatherworkers who are better known as storytellers or musicians), as they made their way south in search of clientele as early as the 14th or 15th century CE. While the women may have nominally given up their mothers' identities through marriage, over the generations the potters preserved their maternal heritage through their technological style, passing this knowledge on to their daughters, and thus transforming the very nature of what it means to be a Mande griot. This is a story of resilience and the continuity of cultural heritage in the hands of women.
In The Shadow Of The Ancestors The Prehistoric Foundations Of The Early Arabian Civilization In Oman
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Author : Serge Cleuziou
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2021-01-14
In The Shadow Of The Ancestors The Prehistoric Foundations Of The Early Arabian Civilization In Oman written by Serge Cleuziou and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with History categories.
This book, first published in 2007, offered the first and only summary of decades of archaeological research in the Oman Peninsula. The original eleven chapters are expanded and enhanced in this new edition by a number of new ‘windows’, written by a new generation of scholars, in order to include more recent research and interpretations.
Transformative Jars
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Author : Anna Grasskamp
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-01
Transformative Jars written by Anna Grasskamp and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Art categories.
The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar – regardless of whether they contain food or drink, matter or a void, life-giving medicine or the ashes of the deceased. As ubiquitous as they may seem, such containers, storage vessels and urns are, as this book demonstrates, highly significant cultural and historical artefacts that mediate between content and environment, exterior worlds and interior enclosures, local and global, this-worldly and otherworldly realms. The contributors to this volume understand jars not only as household utensils or evidence of human civilizations, but also as artefacts in their own right. Asian jars are culturally and aesthetically defined crafted goods and as objects charged with spiritual meanings and ritual significance. Transformative Jars situates Asian jars in a global context and focuses on relationships between the filling, emptying and re-filling of jars with a variety of contents and meanings through time and throughout space. Transformative Jars brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars with backgrounds in curating, art history and anthropology to offer perspectives that go beyond archaeological approaches with detailed analyses of a broad range of objects. By looking at jars as things in the hands of makers, users and collectors, this book presents these objects as agents of change in cultures of craftsmanship and consumption.
Pottery In The Archaeological Record
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Author : Mark L. Lawall
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2011-12-31
Pottery In The Archaeological Record written by Mark L. Lawall and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with Art categories.
Archaeologist are increasingly focusing on the transformation of artifacts from their use in the past to their appearance in the archaeological record, trying to identiy the natural and cultural processes that created the archaeological record we study today. In Classical Archaeology, attention to these processes received an impetus by J. Theodore Pena's 2007 monograph, Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Record, which considered how ceramic vessels were made, used and stayed in use serving various secondary purposes, before finally being discarded. Pena relied mainly on evidence from Roman Italy, which raises the question of the impact of similar cultural forces on pottery from other periods and places. His work accentuates the need to continue the process of building and developing explicit interpretive models of ceramic life-histories in Mediterranean archeology. With a view to beginning to address these challenges, the editors invited a group of specialists in the pottery of Greece and the rest of the Eastern Mediterranean to a colloquium in Athens in June 2008, asking the contributors to recondiser Pena's general models, approaches and examples from their own particular geographic and cultural perspectives. This publication constitutes the proceedings of this colloquium.
The Little Book Of Print Making
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Author : Lynne Garner
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-06-04
The Little Book Of Print Making written by Lynne Garner and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-04 with Education categories.
The Little Book of Print Making is perfect for practitioners working on a tight budget. Full of inventive, inclusive ideas for creating printings and rubbings inside and out of the early years classroom, the activities in this book use objects that are low-cost and easy to obtain, and draw upon a wide range of Early Learning Goals including listening and attention; understanding; speaking; moving and handling; and exploring and using media and materials.
Puyo Runa
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Author : Norman E. Whitten
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2022-08-15
Puyo Runa written by Norman E. Whitten and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Social Science categories.
The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and studied one such people, the Canelos Quichua, for nearly forty years. In Puyo Runa, they present a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements. Canelos Quichua are active participants in national politics, including large-scale movements for social justice for Andean and Amazonian people. Puyo Runa offers readers exceptional insight into this cultural world, revealing its intricacies and embedded humanisms.
Making And Marketing Medicine In Renaissance Florence
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Author : James Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2011
Making And Marketing Medicine In Renaissance Florence written by James Shaw and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Business & Economics categories.
A study of the Speziale al Giglio apothecary shop in fifteenth-century Florence, Italy.
Throwing Handbuilding
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Author : Anderson Turner
language : en
Publisher: The American Ceramic Society
Release Date : 2007
Throwing Handbuilding written by Anderson Turner and has been published by The American Ceramic Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Three Stones Make A Wall
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Author : Eric H. Cline
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Three Stones Make A Wall written by Eric H. Cline and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Social Science categories.
In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, “I see wonderful things.” Carter’s fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall. Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, this book traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries. Along the way, it addresses the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? Who gets to keep what is found? Taking readers from the pioneering digs of the eighteenth century to today’s exciting new discoveries, Three Stones Make a Wall is a lively and essential introduction to the story of archaeology.