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Tracing prehistoric social networks through technology : a diachronic perspective on the Aegean

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Bibliographic Details
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge , 2011
Series:Routledge Studies in Archaeology
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Online Access:Volltext
Author Notes:edited by Ann Brysbaert
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Tracing Social Networks through Studying Technologies; 1. Disentangling Neolithic Networks: Ground Stone Technology, Material Engagements and Networks of Action; 2. 'Thou Shalt Make Many Images of Thy Gods': A Chaîne Opératoire Approach to Mycenaean Religious Rituals Based on Iconographic and Contextual Analyses of Plaster and Terracotta Figures
  • 3. Technologies of Sound across Aegean Crafts and Mediterranean Cultures4. A War of Words: Comparing the Performative Cross-Craft Interaction of Physical Violence and Oral Expression in the Mycenaean World; 5. Ke-ra-me-u or Ke-ra-me-ja? Evidence for Sex, Age and Division of Labour among Mycenaean Ceramicists; 6. Links of Clay in Neolithic Greece: The Case of Platia Magoula Zarkou; 7. Storage Technologies as Embedded Social Practices: Studying Pithos Storage in Prehistoric Northern Greece
  • 8. Aegean Bronze Age Weights, Chaînes Opératoires and the Detecting of Patterns through Statistical Analyses9. Business as Usual: Cypriot Demand for Aegean Pottery during the Late Bronze Age; 10. Technologies of Reusing and Recycling in the Aegean and Beyond; List of Contributors; Index;