THRAVSMA
Contextualising the Intentional Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus
AEGISÉditeur : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Lieu d’édition : Louvain-la-Neuve
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 17 août 2017
Collection : AEGIS
Année d’édition : 2015
Nombre de pages : 196
Présentation
How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and the eastern coast of Italy between 4000-750 BC, archaeologists consider the custom of ritually killing objects as a normative, if inconsistent practice. Yet as artefacts that are alike only in that they have been disarticulated, intentionally destroyed objects defy easy characterization. Such pieces frequently stand outside of clearly defined patterns.
This volume is an initial step in addressing a gap in the scholarship by aiming to deconstruct and contextualize the practice of intentional fragmentation. The case studies in this volume present a diverse range of evidence, including pottery, lithics, metals, jewellery, figurines, buildings and human remains, in an exploration of the wide spectrum of meanings behind material destruction.
Sommaire
Kate Harrell
The Social Life of ΘραύσματαStratos Nanoglou
Situated intentionsProviding a framework for the destruction of objects in Aegean prehistory
Maria Pantelidou Gofa
Damaged Pottery, Damaged Skulls at the Tsepi, Marathon CemeteryColin Renfrew
Evidence for ritual breakage in the Cycladic Early Bronze AgeThe Special Deposit South at Kavos on Keros
Jennifer M. Webb et David Frankel
Coincident biographiesBent and broken blades in Bronze Age Cyprus
Kate Harrell
Piece OutComparing the Intentional Destruction of Swords in the Early Iron Age and the Mycenae Shaft Graves
Michael J. Boyd
Destruction and other material acts of transformation in Mycenaean funerary practiceGiorgos Vavouranakis et Chryssi Bourbou
Breaking Up the PastPatterns of Fragmentation in Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tomb Contexts in Crete
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