Artisans versus nobility? : Multiple identities of elites and 'commoners' viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brysbaert, Ann.

Contributor:

Gorgues, Alexis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility--Europe--History.

Nobility.

Europe--Social conditions--History.

Europe.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : SIdestone Press, 2017.

Summary:

In prehistoric Europe hierarchic societies arose and developed technological systems and processes in the production of objects related to everyday use, on the one hand, and items of religious and symbolic character emulating prestige and luxury, on the other, while both types of objects may not always be clearly distinguishable. This volume deals with questions of how artisans and other social groups, involved in these productive processes and social practices, reacted to and interacted with the demands connected with elites identities formation, affirmation and reconfirmation practices. Inno.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note. Artisans versus nobility? Crafting in context: introduction / Ann Brysbaert

Production as activity. Defining the context of casting production in late prehistoric Scotland / Daniel Sahlen

A Place for Crafting? Late Bronze Age Metalworking in Southern Scandinavia and the Issue of Workshops / Anna Sorman

The power of production in the northern Iberian world (6th-3rd centuries BC) / Alexis Gorgues

Rich metallurgists' graves from the Varna I cemetery. Rediscussing the social role of the earliest metalworkers / Ernst Pernicka

Who's in charge here? The making of military communication vectors in the Late Iron Age in western Europe / Alexandre Bertaud

Chipped stone tools from the Early Bronze Age settlement of Minferri (2100-1650 cal. BC) (Lleida, Spain). Raw materials, technology and activities inferred / Andreu Moya Garra

The artisans of metal and the elite in the western Hallstatt zone (630-450 BC) / Emilie Dubreucq

For blacksmiths, are advanced technical skills the way to achieve elite status? The case of the western Hallstatt area during the transition between First and Second Iron Ages / Anne Filippini.

Notes:

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Brysbaert, Ann. Artisans versus nobility? : Multiple identities of elites and 'commoners' viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean.

ISBN:

9789088903984

9088903980

OCLC:

988175617

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