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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"Bronze Age"”.
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Containing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
… for children, miniature ceramic vessels in the Bronze Age Aegean have been afforded little thorough study. Their presence at peak sanctuaries, sacred caves, and shrines on Crete has led to their uncritical association with ritual activity, even outside of sacred areas. When miniature pots are …
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The Bronze Age Funerary Cups of Northern England
… they were found to be associated with Early Bronze Age funerary practices. Known by the name of incense cups, accessory vessels or miniature cups, their true purpose has been elusive. This study comprises an investigation of cups from Northern England and finds the tradition to be heavily …
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The Bronze Age funerary cups of southern England
… ‘accessory’ or ‘funerary’ cups are small Early Bronze Age vessels, almost all from mortuary contexts, united by their diminutive size. Although several small-scale and regional studies have previously been undertaken, until recently there has been little attempt to consider such vessels as a …
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The Early Bronze Age Burial Customs of Karataş-Semayük
<p>From the abstract: "Excavation of the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Karataş-Semayük in the highlands of Lycia has confirmed and amplified knowledge of third millennium burial customs in western Anatolia." Dissertation adviser: Machteld J. Mellink</p>
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Archaeomagnetic dating of bronze age pottery from Tell Mozan, Syria
The ancient city-state of Urkesh, located at Tell Mozan, Syria, was the political and religious center of the Hurrians, a unique culture that inhabited the northern Syro-Mesopotamian region during the 3rd millennium BCE. The chronology of Urkesh has been divided into seven primary occupational …
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Connectivity: An Ecological Paradigm for the Study of Bronze Age
… an ecological paradigm for the study of Bronze Age” addresses the relationship between historic and prehistoric people, and the landscapes they inhabited, moved about, and continue to inhabit. It suggests alternative methodological approaches that have broader ramifications for the …
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The Early Bronze Age Ceramic Assemblage from Tell Ta'annek, Palestine
… temporal ceramic indicators for the Early Bronze II-III periods is "one of the thorniest issues in the archaeology of Palestine" (2000: 183). Part of theproblem stems from the homogenous nature of ceramic assemblages from Early Bronze Age Palestine; part of it stems from a continued lack of …
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The Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the Firth of Clyde
… Firth of Clyde region in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Six type monuments which were the foci of ritual and/or burial practices during this period are considered: chambered cairns of the Neolithic, stone circles, standing stones, cup-marked rocks, early Bronze Age burial cairns and unmarked …
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The provenance of Bronze Age pottery from Central and Eastern Greece
Samples from nearly 800 Bronze Age pottery sherds from Euboea, Eastern Boeotia and Eastern Thessaly were analysed together with 9 raw clays from the same areas. The-analysis was carried out in an attempt to identify areas of pottery manufacture, to discover the origin of specific groups of pottery, …
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Change and Standardization in Anyang: Writing and Culture in Bronze Age China
… bones from the center and south of Xiaotun village in the Wastes of Yin), published in 2012. Compared to other collections, relatively little work has been done on this one, and it happens to contain many inscriptions especially relevant to some of the questions under discussion, from issues of …
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The bioarchaeology of Early Bronze Age Ireland: health, disease, trauma, and care
Human remains have been reported from Early Bronze Age contexts in Ireland since the 19th century. With a relative lack of settlement sites, the mortuary contexts of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland have been the focus for many studies, especially those interested in social structure and status. …
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Arkadia in transition: exploring late Bronze Age and early Iron Age human landscape
… explores the region of Arkadia in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age using an interpretative and phenomenologically inspired approach. It is region associated with many myths pointing to a continuing population throughout the period, yet beset with a problematic archaeological record. …
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There is this island: Social dynamics and connectivity in Prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus
… of Cypriot history known as the Prehistoric Bronze Age (ca.2500–1750BCE) have mostly been approached through evolutionary frameworks aiming to explain how the simple societies of the island transformed into more complex ones emerging by the end of this period. Through this teleological …
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The Origins of Writing, and its Relation to Art on Bronze Age Crete
… to the material culture of Early to Middle Bronze Age Crete as a context-conscious alternative to the strict and anachronistic divisions imposed by traditional models. This allows for a novel way of viewing and identifying structures of meaning embedded in otherwise familiar evidence. A …
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