Material koinai in the Greek early Iron Age and archaic period / edited by Søren Handberg and Anastasia Gadolou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handberg, Søren.

Gkadolou, Anastasia

Danske institut i Athen.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; v. 22.

Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Material culture.

Iron age.

Antiquities.

Greece--Antiquities--Congresses.

Greece.

Iron age--Greece--Congresses.

Material culture--Greece--Congresses.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Greece--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

369 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts, plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2017]

Summary:

The ancient Greek word koine was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, twenty scholars from various disciplines present case studies that focus on the fundamental question of how to perceive and the social and cultural mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in the Greek early Iron Age. Combined the chapters provide a critical examination of the use of the koine concept as a heuristic tool in historical research and discuss to what degree similarities in material culture reflect cultural connections. The volume will be of interest scholars interested in archaeological theory and method, the social significance of material culture, and the history of the ancient Greek world in the first half of the first millennium BC.

Contents:

Pottery production and the formation of material or cultural koinai

Cross cultural connections and material and cultural koinai

The material koinai of wine drinking.

Notes:

"Acts of an international conference at the Danish Institute at Athens, 30 January - 1 February 2015."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9788771843286

8771843280

OCLC:

1025446480