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Thravsma : contextualising the intentional destruction of objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus / by K. Harrell and J. Driessen.

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Thravsma : contextualising the intentional destruction of objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus / by K. Harrell and J. Driessen.
Publication
  • [Louvain-la-Neuve] : Presses Universitaires de Louvain, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Driessen, Jan
  • Harrell, Kate
Description
196 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Aegis. Actes de colloques ; 09
Uniform Title
  • Aegis ; 9.
  • Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium) ; 09.
  • Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium). Actes de colloques.
Subject
  • Cultural property > Destruction and pillage > Greece > Congresses
  • Cultural property > Destruction and pillage > Cyprus > Congresses
  • Bronze age > Greece > Congresses
  • Bronze age > Cyprus > Congresses
  • Antiquities
  • Bronze age
  • Cultural property > Destruction and pillage
  • Greece > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Cyprus > Antiquities > Congresses
  • Cyprus
  • Greece
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • Papers in English and one in French.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9782875583925
  • 2875583921
  • 9782875583932 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
9782875583925
OCLC
  • 929454045
  • SCSB-10553223
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library