An archaeology of prehistoric bodies and embodied identities in the eastern Mediterranean

Weitere Verfasser: Mina, Maria
Papadatos, Giannes, 1972-
Triantaphyllou, Sevi
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
Umfang/Format: xii, 227 pages : illustrations. 30 cm
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Parallelausgabe: Online edition
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: the archaeology of bodies and the eastern Mediterranean / John Robb
  • Part I. The represented body
  • Polydactyly in chalcolithic figurines from Cyprus / Michelle Gamble, Christine Winkelmann and Sherry Fox
  • Figurines, paint and the perception of the body in the early Bronze Age southern Aegean / Yiannis Papadatos
  • Thoughts on the funerary use of the early Bronze Age (EBA) cycladic figurines: iconography, form, context and embodied lives / Dimitra Goula
  • Composite, partial, created and floating bodies: a re-assessment of the Knossos Temple repositories assemblage / Fay Stevens and Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw
  • Figurines and complex identities in late Bronze Age Cyprus / Daisy Knox
  • Handlers and viewers: some remarks on the process of perception of terracotta figurines on the example of Cypriot "goddesses with upraised arms" / Katarzyna Zeman-Wisniewska
  • Part II. Material culture and the construction of identities
  • ^Re-making the self: bodies, identities and materialities in chalcolithic Cyprus / Diane Bolger
  • Pots and people: an investigation of individual and collective identities in early Bronze Age Cyprus / Jennifer M. Webb
  • Dressed to impress: metal objects and embodied identities in early and middle Bronze Age Cyprus / Maria Mina
  • Placed with care: interaction with decorated Mycenaean metal vessels / Stephanie Aulsebrook
  • Part III. Ritualised practice and the performance of identities
  • The performative body and social identity in the room of the fresco at Mycenae / Anne P. Chapin
  • "It's war, not a dance": polarising embodied identities in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean from the end of the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, 1200-700 BC / Manolis Mikrakis
  • Nuptial vases in female tombs: aspects of funerary behaviour during the late geometric period in Attica / Vicky Vlachou
  • ^Turning into stone: rock art and the construction of identities in ancient Thrace / Stella Pilavaki
  • Part IV. Embodied knowledge through technology and space
  • Lithics and identity at the middle Palaeolithic site of Lakonis Cave I, southern Peloponnese, Greece / Paraskevi Elefanti and Eleni Panagopoulou
  • Picrolite and other stone beads and pendants: new forms in an old material during the transition from the Chalcolithic to the Cypriot Bronze Age / Giorgos Georgiou
  • The embodiment of land ownership in the Aegean early Bronze Age / Ourania Kouka
  • From potter's mark to the potter who marks / Kostis Christakis
  • Part V. The lived body and identities
  • Grasping identity: theoretically informed human bioarchaeology in or for the eastern Mediterranean? / Kirsi O. Lorentz
  • Headshaping and identity at Tell Nader / Konstantinos Kopanias and Sherry C. Fox
  • ^Constructing identities by ageing the body in the prehistoric Aegean: the view through the human remains / Sevi Triantaphyllou
  • Part VI. Interaction with the dead body
  • Secondary burials and the construction of group identities in Crete between the second half of the 4th and 2nd millennia BC / Luca Girella and Simona Todaro
  • Bodies in a pickle: burial jars, individualism and group identities in middle Minoan Crete / Borja Legarra Herrero
  • Fire, fragmentation and the body in the late Bronze Age Aegean / Yannis Galanakis
  • Spatial and temporal variability in identity and representation within the bronze age cemeteries of knossos, crete / Eleni Hatzaki
  • Collective selves and funerary rituals: early Mycenaean Dromoi as spaces of negotiation and embodiment of social identities / Nikolas Papadimitriou
  • Burning people, breaking things: material entanglements, the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition and the Homeric dividual / James Whitley
  • ^Epilogue: bodies in the eastern Mediterranean / Kostas Kotsakis.