The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster
In the past, Bronze Age painted plaster in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean has been studied from a range of different but isolated viewpoints. This volume brings both technological and iconographic approaches closer together by completing certain gaps in the literature on technology and by investigating how and why technological transfer has developed and what broader impact this had on the wider social dynamics of the late Middle and Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. This study approaches the topic of painted plaster by a multidisciplinary methodology and demonstrates the human forces through which transfer was enabled and how multiple social identities and the inter-relationships of these actors with each other and their material world were expressed through their craft production and organization. The investigated data from sixteen sites has been contextualized within a wider framework of Bronze Age interconnections both in time and space because studying painted plaster in the Aegean cannot be considered separate from similar traditions both in Egypt and in the Near East.
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The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster
In the past, Bronze Age painted plaster in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean has been studied from a range of different but isolated viewpoints. This volume brings both technological and iconographic approaches closer together by completing certain gaps in the literature on technology and by investigating how and why technological transfer has developed and what broader impact this had on the wider social dynamics of the late Middle and Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. This study approaches the topic of painted plaster by a multidisciplinary methodology and demonstrates the human forces through which transfer was enabled and how multiple social identities and the inter-relationships of these actors with each other and their material world were expressed through their craft production and organization. The investigated data from sixteen sites has been contextualized within a wider framework of Bronze Age interconnections both in time and space because studying painted plaster in the Aegean cannot be considered separate from similar traditions both in Egypt and in the Near East.
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The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster

The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster

by Ann Brysbaert
The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster

The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster

by Ann Brysbaert

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In the past, Bronze Age painted plaster in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean has been studied from a range of different but isolated viewpoints. This volume brings both technological and iconographic approaches closer together by completing certain gaps in the literature on technology and by investigating how and why technological transfer has developed and what broader impact this had on the wider social dynamics of the late Middle and Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. This study approaches the topic of painted plaster by a multidisciplinary methodology and demonstrates the human forces through which transfer was enabled and how multiple social identities and the inter-relationships of these actors with each other and their material world were expressed through their craft production and organization. The investigated data from sixteen sites has been contextualized within a wider framework of Bronze Age interconnections both in time and space because studying painted plaster in the Aegean cannot be considered separate from similar traditions both in Egypt and in the Near East.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781792537
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Publication date: 09/30/2015
Series: Monographs In Mediterranean Archaeology
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 286
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.57(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ann Brysbaert is Senior Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Leiden.

Table of Contents

Prologue: A Tale of 'Frescoes' The Power of Technology, Knowledge and Social Agency Technological Style and the Power of Technology and Knowledge Archaeometric Approaches to Technologies and Materials Painted Plaster in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Analyzed to Bits: Technological and Iconographic Transfer Considering Material Culture and Social Identities Technology and Social Agency of Painted Plaster
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