Technology and urbanism in late Bronze Age Egypt / Anna K. Hodgkinson.
| Author/creator | Hodgkinson, Anna K. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2018. |
| Description | xxvii, 328 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Technology & urbanism in late Bronze Age Egypt |
| Series | Oxford studies in Egyptian archaeology Oxford studies in Egyptian archaeology. ^A1355850 |
| Contents | 1 Introduction and Background 1 -- 1.1 Elements of Late Bronze Age Urban Settlements and their Role as Centres of Craft Production 1 -- 1.2 Late Bronze Age Luxury Goods Industries in Urban Settlements 9 -- 1.3 Object Categories Included in this Study 18 -- 1.4 Methods for the Analysis of Late Bronze Age Settlements 24 -- 1.5 Spaces of Activity: Identifying the Physical Settings of Ancient Egyptian Workshops and Factories 33 -- 1.6 The Manufacture of High-status Goods: A Brief Overview of the Industries 38 -- 2 Amarna: Urban Manufacture of Luxury Items 53 -- 2.1 History of the Settlement 53 -- 2.2 History of Excavation 57 -- 2.3 The Suburbs and Houses: The Urban Character of Amarna 62 -- 2.4 The Spatial Analysis of Luxury Goods Manufacture at Amarna 74 -- 2.5 Some Statistical Data 178 -- 2.6 A Spatial Analysis of Amarna: Summary and Conclusions 184 -- 3 Gurob: Luxury Goods Manufacture in a Harbour and Palace City 187 -- 3.1 History of the Settlement 187 -- 3.2 History of Excavation 188 -- 3.3 Occupation and Layout of the City 190 -- 3.4 The Archaeology of Production: Material from Early Excavations 194 -- 3.5 A Spatial Analysis of Luxury Goods Production at Gurob: A Summary 197 -- 3.6 Objects from Gurob: Summary of the Spatial Analysis 200 -- 4 Malqata: Manufacturing at a Ceremonial Settlement 206 -- 4.1 Malqata: Introduction 206 -- 4.2 History of Excavation and Problems Caused by Past Insufficient Recording 207 -- 4.3 The Site, its Buildings, and History of Occupation 212 -- 4.4 The Archaeology of Production at Malqata 216 -- 4.5 The Material Evidence of High-status Production 223 -- 4.6 Malqata: Summary and Conclusions 227 -- 5 Luxury Goods Manufacture at Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata Compared 230 -- 5.1 Problems with the Data Analysed: Quality and Precision 230 -- 5.2 Glass Objects and Evidence of Glass-working 231 -- 5.3 Faience Objects and Evidence of Faience Production 233 -- 5.4 Metal Objects and Evidence of Metal-working 234 -- 5.5 Sculpture and Evidence of Sculpture Production 235 -- 5.6 Evidence of Textile Production 236 -- 5.7 Qantir/Pi-Ramesse: A Discourse 237 -- 5.8 New Kingdom Egyptian Royal Cities: Conclusions on the Spatial and Artefactual Analyses 241 -- 6 The Workshop as a Microcosm: Workshops and Factories in Urban Settlements 244 -- 6.1 Introduction: The Finer Characteristics of New Kingdom Urban Industrial Settings 244 -- 6.2 Amarna O45.1: A Workshop for the Processing of Glass, Faience, and Metal 244 -- 6.3 Gurob IA1: Excavating a High-temperature Workshop of the New Kingdom 248 -- 6.4 Comparison of Gurob IA1 with Amarna O45.1 260 -- 6.5 Summary of Urban High-temperature Workshops at Amarna and Gurob 261 -- 7 Household or Cottage Industries: Modelling Industrial Diversity in New Kingdom Houses and Courtyards 263 -- 7.1 Amarna's Main City North: Multi-functional Houses 263 -- 7.2 Amarna's Main City South: Excavations at Grid 12/N50.23/The House of Ranefer, N49.18 274 -- 7.3 Malqata Site J: An Excerpt of an Industrial Settlement 277 -- 7.4 Amarna and Malqata: Comparison of Household-level Industries 282 -- 7.5 Conclusions: Industrial Diversity and Purpose-built Workshops 283 -- 8 Conclusions 285 -- 8.1 The Influence of Luxury Goods Production on Late Bronze Age Egyptian Settlements 285 -- 8.2 The Social Context, Spatial Organization and Control, and Consumption of High-status Goods in Late Bronze Age Cities 286 -- 8.3 Spaces of Activity: Late Bronze Age Egyptian Workshops and Factories 287 -- 8.4 The Organization of High-status Craft Production in Late Bronze Age Cities 289. |
| Summary | "This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the intra-urban distribution of high-status goods, and their production or role as a marker of the nature of the settlements known as royal cities of New Kingdom Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC). Using spatial analysis to detect patterns of artefact distribution, the study focuses on Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, incorporating Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison. Being royal cities, these three settlements had a great need for luxury goods. Such items were made of either highly valuable materials, or materials that were not easily produced and therefore required a certain set of skills. Specifically, the industries discussed are those of glass, faience, metal, sculpture, and textiles. Analysis of the evidence of high-status industrial processes throughout the urban settlements, has demonstrated that industrial activities took place in institutionalized buildings, in houses of the elite, and also in small domestic complexes. This leads to the conclusion that materials were processed at different levels throughout the settlements and were subject to a strict pattern of control. The methodological approach to each settlement necessarily varies, depending on the nature and quality of the available data. By examining the distribution of high-status or luxury materials, in addition to archaeological and artefactual evidence of their production, a deeper understanding has been achieved of how industries were organized and how they influenced urban life in New Kingdom Egypt."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017940791 |
| ISBN | 9780198803591 |
| ISBN | 0198803591 |
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