"This volume brings both technological and iconographic (and other) 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...

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1. Verfasser:	Brysbaert, Ann (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Sheffield ; Bristol Equinox Publishing Ltd 2015
Ausgabe:	Paperback edition
Schriftenreihe:	Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology 12
Schlagworte:	Funde Geschichte Bronze age > Mediterranean Region Industries, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region Painting, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region Plastering > Mediterranean Region > History Putz Wandmalerei Bronzezeit Mediterranean Region > Antiquities Levante
Zusammenfassung:	"This volume brings both technological and iconographic (and other) 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. Moreover, when human actors and their interactions are placed in the centre of the scene, it 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." "This study makes clear that it is not possible to deduce a one-way directional transfer of this painting tradition. The painted plaster reflects a very visible presence in the archaeological record and, because it cannot be transported without its artisans, it suggests specific interactions of royal courts in the East with the Aegean peoples. The painted plaster as an immovable feature required at least temporary presence of a small team of painters and plasterers. This factor forms an argument in support of travelling artisans, who, in turn, shed light onto broader aspects of contact, trade and exchange mechanisms during the late MBA and LBA."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	xiv, 258 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:	9781781792537