Collection(s) : Aegis
Paru le 29/01/2016 | Broché 196 pages
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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.
Chryssi Bourbou is a researcher in archaeology at the 28th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities of Chania.
Michael J. Boyd is the Stavros S. Niarchos Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
John Chapman is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Durham.
Mario Denti is Senior Professor of Archaeology and Director of the LAHM Laboratory at the Université Rennes 2 in France.
Jan Driessen is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Université catholique de Louvain. He also serves as the Director of the Belgian School at Athens.
David Frankel is Emeritus Professor in Archaeology at La Trobe University.
Kate Harrell holds the Belgian American Education Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Aegean Archaeology at the Université catholique de Louvain.
Carl Knappett holds the Walter Graham / Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto.
Stratos Nanoglou is a researcher in archaeology at the 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Messinia.
Maria Pantelidou Gofa is Professor Emerita at the University of Athens.
Colin Renfrew is Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
Jennifer M. Webb is the Charles Joseph La Trobe Research Fellow at La Trobe University.
Giorgos Vavouranakis is Lecturer in Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
