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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Middle Bronze Age"”.
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Canaanite jars from Memphis as evidence for trade and political relationships in the Middle Bronze Age
… trade between Egypt and the Levant during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1550 BC, MBA) and Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550-1200 BC, LBA). Scientific analyses of Canaanite jars, transport vessels, from the site of Memphis, Egypt provided an ideal proxy for examining the relationship between trade and …
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A Stratigraphic Analysis of the Middle Bronze Age from the Tell Taanach Excavations in 1963, '66 and '68
… manuscripts a relative chronology for the Middle Bronze stratigraphy at Tell Taanach was determined. Gathering the data was gathered involved photocopying every page from the field books of every square; some field books are kept at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and some are stored at Bir …
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Land use and society during the Middle Bronze Age in South-East Ireland: an integrated examination of the character, landscape setting and chronology of the archaeological and paleoenvironmental record from c.1600–1150 BC
The Middle Bronze Age was one of the least understood periods of Irish later prehistory being characterised through a series of poorly understood metalwork assemblages. The predominance of single metalwork finds and their isolation from a recognisable domestic or funerary record led some to view …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… words; indeed humour may have preceded language in our evolutionary development and has been seen in primates. Such longevity of humour suggests it would have been found in pre-literate societies, such as in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern; areas where …
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Ties that bind: investigating Hyksos provenance and migration using dental morphology.
… as understand its place in the landscape of the Middle Bronze Age Near East. Mobility studies have experienced a new awakening in archaeology, caused by recent theoretical and methodological developments in both non- destructive and biochemical techniques. Biological distance, or biodistance, …
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Minoan Barbotine Ware: Styles, Shapes, and A Characterization of the Clay Fabric
… fabric of Minoan Barbotine Ware. During the Middle Minoan period, Barbotine Ware exemplifies the creative ingenuity of the Minoan potter. The vessels’ elaborate decorative motifs play an integral part in the development of Minoan pottery. Barbotine Ware remains an ill-defined tradition. This …
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A Reassessment of the Excavations at Tall Safut
… archaeology because of its remains dating to the Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, and Iron Age. However, there is a significant gap in the scholarly understanding of the history of the northern hill country of Central Jordan due to the lack of publication. Safut has significant remains from …
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ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΛΗΘΥΣΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΝΟΤΙΟΥ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΠΟΧΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΑΛΚΟΥ
… TRIBES (NORDIC) IN THE TRADITIONAL ERA BETWEEN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE AND LATE BRONZE AGE, AND C) WHETHER THEREARE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE VARIOUS SITES WHICH EXAMINED. A SAMPLE OF 504 HUMAN SKULLS HAS BEEN STUDIED (MALES AND FEMALES) TAKEN FROM 37 EXCAVATIONS FROM ARGOLIS, MESSENIA, ATTICA AND …
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Mobile Practices and the Production and Curation of Pottery: A View from the Ancient Southern Russian Steppe Using Portable Methods of Investigation
… in mobile strategy between the Eneolithic and Middle Bronze Age—represents the maintenance of a region of overlapping exploitation previously identified. By the Early Iron Age, increased nomadism and associated demographic shifts resulted in expanded seasonal cycles leading to increasingly …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
This thesis examines the character of Middle Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (3600-1200 BC) funerary and ritual practices in Wales. This was based on the analysis of chronological (radiocarbon determinations and artefactual evidence), contextual (monument types, burial types, deposit types) and …
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Walking through time: a window onto the prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales through multi-method, non-standard survey approaches
… of inception of the field-systems back to the middle Bronze Age, some 1000 years earlier than is currently assumed. The combination of empirical data and theoretical ideas has allowed a relative chronology to be determined in the survey area, together with the creation of a testable hypothesis …
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The Origins of Writing, and its Relation to Art on Bronze Age Crete
… is applied 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. …
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Copper Metallurgy in Cilicia and the Amuq in the Second Millennium BC: Insights into Aspects of Bronze Age Technology and Trade
… the Near East during the second millennium BC (Middle and Late Bronze Ages). To investigate this, the project employed chemical and lead isotope analysis of copper objects from the Bronze Age sites of Tarsus, Kinet, and Tell Atchana in the plains of Cilicia and Amuq in southern Turkey, to …
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Livestock and landscape: exploring animal exploitation in later prehistory in the South West of Britain.
… across the south west. The fields of the earlier Bronze Age apparently relate to continuation of extensive husbandry regimes, whilst fixing the activity within the landscape. Small scale arable farming was integrated during the Middle Bronze Age. Subsequently there was a return to extensive …
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Re-making collectives. A study of changes in the living environments of mainland Greece, 2500-2100 BCE
… dating from ca. 2500 to 2100 BCE (later Early Bronze II to Early Bronze III). The 23rd and 22nd centuries BCE have long been identified as a period of significant changes in the area of the Aegean in terms of material culture, changes that, in the case of the study area, have been interpreted …