Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

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ISBN: 9780521880800 | 0521880807
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Copyright: 8/13/2007

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The societies that developed in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age produced the most prolific and diverse range of stone vessel traditions known at any time or anywhere in the world. Stone vessels are therefore a key class of artifact in the early history of this region. In this book, Andrew Bevan considers individual stone vessel industries in great detail. He also offers a highly comparative and value-led perspective on production, consumption and exchange logics throughout the eastern Mediterranean over a period of two millennia during the Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 BC).

Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Comparative Terminology	p. 3
Chapter Summary	p. 6
Agreeing on Things	p. 8
Classification and Transmission	p. 10
Social Relationships	p. 12
Wealth Measurement	p. 16
Moving People, Objects, and Ideas	p. 19
Moving Around the Eastern Mediterranean	p. 19
Bronze Age Economies and Exchanges	p. 21
Behind Bronze Age Gifts	p. 23
Scale in the Archaeological Record	p. 26
Merchants and Their Roles	p. 29
Third Millennium Trade	p. 30
Earlier Second Millennium Trade	p. 32
Later Second Millennium Trade	p. 35
Summary	p. 38
Making Stone Vessels	p. 40
The Working Properties of Stones	p. 40
Unassisted Manual Abrasion	p. 41
Carving	p. 43
Pounding and Sawing	p. 43
Drilling	p. 44
Cuting Technologies	p. 45
Drill-Bit Driving Technologies	p. 47
Drilling Strategies	p. 50
A Template Production Sequence	p. 52
Bronze Age Production Traditions	p. 54
Egypt	p. 54
The Levant	p. 55
Cyprus	p. 56
Anatolia	p. 56
The Aegean	p. 57
Conclusion	p. 60
The Third Millennium	p. 62
Egypt	p. 62
The Pre-Third Millennium Background	p. 62
Early Dynastic and Earlier Old Kingdom	p. 63
Later Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period	p. 72
The Levant	p. 75
The Pre-Third Millennium Background	p. 75
Egyptian Vessels	p. 76
Non-Egyptian Vessels	p. 78
Cyprus and Central Anatolia	p. 79
The Aegean	p. 80
The Pre-Third Millennium Background	p. 80
The Grotta-Pelos Phase	p. 80
The Keros-Syros Phase	p. 83
EMIIA Crete	p. 85
Later Prepalatial Crete	p. 86
Trade Beyond Crete	p. 93
The Earlier Second Millennium	p. 100
Egypt	p. 100
The Middle Kingdom	p. 100
The Second Intermediate Period and Early 18th Dynasty	p. 101
The Levant	p. 102
Egyptian-Style Vessels	p. 102
Levantine Vessels	p. 108
Anatolia	p. 113
The Aegean	p. 115
Protopalatial Crete	p. 115
The Neopalatial Period	p. 119
The Later Second Millennium	p. 134
Egypt	p. 134
The Mid-18th Dynasty	p. 134
The Amarna Age	p. 138
The 19th Dynasty	p. 142
The Levant	p. 143
Egyptian-Style Vessels	p. 143
Southern Levantine Gypsum Vessels	p. 150
Cyprus	p. 152
Egyptian-Style Vessels	p. 152
Local Cypriot Vessels	p. 153
Anatolia	p. 156
The Aegean	p. 157
Egyptian, Cypriot, and Levantine Vessels	p. 157
LMII-III Knossos	p. 158
Mycenae Ivory Houses-Style Vessels	p. 163
The Rough and the Smooth: Stone Vessels from a Comparative Perspective	p. 166
Stone Vessels in Small-Scale Societies	p. 168
Softstone Industries	p. 169
Light-Coloured Softstones	p. 170
Dark-Coloured Softstones	p. 172
Complex Stone Vessel Traditions	p. 179
Forging Value and Casting Stones	p. 185
After the Bronze Age	p. 185
Vessels and Values	p. 186
Future Directions	p. 192
Typological Guide	p. 195
Egypt (E-)	p. 195
Egyptian-Style (Es-)	p. 211
Levant (L-)	p. 214
Cyprus (Cyp-)	p. 223
Anatolia (A-)	p. 229
Crete (C-)	p. 232
Mycenaean-Style Vessels (M-)	p. 241
Cyclades (Cyc-)	p. 244
Notes	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 259
Index	p. 293
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