Containers of change ancient container technologies from Eastern to Western Asia / Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Reinhard Bernbeck & Koen Berghuijs, (eds).
| Other author | Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier. |
| Other author | Bernbeck, Reinhard, 1958- |
| Other author | Berghuijs, Koen. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2023] |
| Description | 284 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 28 x 21 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface Reinhard Bernbeck Koen Berghuijs -- The ultimate black box-- an introduction Olivier Nieuwenhuyse-- Thinking inside the mask Clive Gamble -- Containing the flow : Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder -- Clay, enamel & plastic -- Three ethnographic studies on diversity and innovation in container usage Hans Peter Hahn -- Just an everyday story of pots? Thinking through the controversies, materialities, and interdependencies of initial pottery and organic containers in the East Mediterranean Peter Tomkins -- Thinking inside the pot -- Improving organic residue analysis Bonnie Nilhamn -- Early pottery in Upper Mesopotamia Marie Le Mière -- Imagined Inceptions : of pottery and basketry in the Upper Mesopotamian late Neolithic Koen Berghuijs Olivier Nieuwenhuyse -- Alternating mediums? The introduction of pottery to the southern Levant and its impact on the production of stone vessels: Sha'ar Hagolan as a case study Danny Rosenberg Yosef Garfinkel -- Early pottery in the Southern Levant and beyond Kevin Gibbs -- A view from the northern forests : container technologies of boreal hunter-gatherers Henny Piezonka -- The affordances of portable containers in early village societies in the Kopet Dag region Susan Pollock -- Containers of collective memories. A biographic-contextual approach to the chlorite vessels of the 10th millennium BCE of northern Mesopotamia Marion Benz -- Containers for spirits : symbolic meaning of early pottery and stone vessels discovered in Tell el-Kerkh Akira Tsuneki -- Clay containers and mobility in the final stage of Neolithisation : storage bins and the earliest pottery at Tell el-Kerkh, northwest Syria Takahiro Odaka --Immovable and movable containers : evidence from the Syrian Euphrates in the mid-8th millennium cal. BCE Anna Bach Gómez Adrià Breu Barcons Miquel Molist Walter Cruells -- Lifting the lid on the materiality of containing and retrieving Carl Knappett -- Container cultures : a synthesis Reinhard Bernbeck. |
| Abstract | Across Western Asia, the astonishing increase in the availability of durable ceramic containers in the seventh millennium BCE had significant societal repercussions - so much so that vital social, economic, and symbolic activities became dependent upon the availability of pottery containers. These early ceramic containers, however, established themselves alongside flourishing preexisting container traditions, with vessels made in a wide range of materials inc. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023459270 |
| ISBN | 9464270519 paperback |
| ISBN | 9789464270518 paperback |
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