Archaeological perspectives on the transmission and transformation of culture in the Eastern Mediterranean / Edited by Joanne Clarke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Joanne, editor.

Series:

Levant supplementary series.

Levant supplementary series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce, Prehistoric--Middle East.

Commerce, Prehistoric.

Commerce, Prehistoric--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), 2022.

Summary:

The eastern Mediterranean was the centre of trade for many centuries, sitting at the junction of what are now Europe, Asia and Africa. It was the place where exotic produce and products could be traded or exchanged for things that had their origins perhaps thousands of miles away. But wherever trade takes place, a similar exchange of ideas, technology and culture also occurs. This book presents thirty papers on this very subject, looking at the ways in which we can measure the transmission of culture, and how this transmission varied across time and space.

Contents:

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Cultural transmissions and transformations Joanne Clarke

Part one: Methodological approaches to the transmission and transformation of culture

Understanding the importance of methodology in complex archaeological interpretation Joanne Clarke

Constructing identities in the Neolithic Eastern Mediterranean: cultural difference and the role of architecture Demetra Papaconstantinou

Becoming Bronze Age. Acculturation and enculturation in third millennium BC Cyprus David Frankel

'Ethnicities', 'ethnonyms' and archaeological labels. Whose ideologies and whose identities? Susan Sherratt

A question of reception Jacke Phillips

Transmission and assimilation in context: an economic model for the selection and use of Greek and Phoenician ceramic imports in 8th century BC Cypriot society David W. Rupp

The local dimension in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant: a case study using imported pottery G. Miles Huckle

The impact of trade on Late Cypriot society: a contextual study of imports from Enkomi Sophia Antoniadou

Part two: Time and continuity

Transmissions and transformations in time and the phenomenon of continuity Joanne Clarke

The Neolithic revolution and the emergence of humanity: a cognitive approach to the first comprehensive world-view Trevor Watkins

Life, death and the emergence of differential status in the Near Eastern Neolithic: evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel A. Nigel Goring-Morris

Transforming food practices in the Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant Brian Boyd

Like a bull in a china shop: identity and ideology in Neolithic Cyprus Alain Le Brun

House form and cultural identity in Chalcolithic Cyprus Gordon Thomas

Cyprus at the dawn of the first millennium BC: cultural homogenisation versus the tyranny of ethnic identifications Maria Iacovou

Part three: Space and diversity

Crossing cultural divides: transmissions and transformations in space Joanne Clarke

Identifying ethnicity from Prehistoric pottery in Ancient Egypt and the Southern Levant Eliot Braun

The frontier of Egypt in the Early Bronze Age: prelimary soundings at Tell al-Sakan (Gaza Strip) Pierre de Miroschedji Moain Sadeq

Cultural homogenisation and diversity in Canaan during the 13th and 12th centuries BC Ann E. Killebrew

Ideology, iconography and identity. The role of foreign goods and images in the establishment of social hierarchy in Late Bronze Age Cyprus Jennifer M. Webb

Images of women and cultural assimilation in the Achaemenid Persian Levant and Cyprus Roger Moorey

Minoan Asherah? Stephanie Budin

The worship of Anat and Astarte in Cypriot Iron Age sanctuaries Anja Ulbrich

Architectural styles and ethnic identity in Medieval to modern Cyprus Michael Given

Identities and empire: Cyprus under British rule Kylie Seretis.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-7397302-3-2