Arcane Interregional. Artefacts

Marc Lebeau (ed)

Pages: x + 309 p.
Size:210 x 297 mm
Illustrations:200 b/w, 1 col.

Language(s):English
Publication Year:2018

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"This is certainly ambitious work, aiming to produce reliable relative and absolute chronologies of the entire region for the 3rd millennium BC and beyond through synchronisation of regional chronologies, and present this in ultimately a dozen ‘regional and transversal’ volumes (...)" (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, in: Ancient West & East, Volume 17, 2018, p. 273)

“(…) it provides scholars with a huge amount of materials, a high level of discussion and the possibility to go further in depth in several aspects of these difficult topics.” (Paolo Matthiae, in Studia Eblaitica 5, 2019, p. 223)

Summary

The second interregional volume of the ARCANE collection gathers fourteen contributions concerning artefacts that were produced from Egypt to Iran and from Thrace to Southern Mesopotamia across the third millennium BCE.

These contributions, written by senior scholars and advanced doctoral students, are based primarily on artefacts from secure stratigraphical contexts. They present the most recent and complete update on Near and Middle Eastern artefact production throughout the Early Bronze Age.

As an integral component of the ARCANE Programme, the volume provides a careful examination of interregional contacts and allows for a deeper understanding and fine-tuning of the relative chronologies of the entire area.

The contributors relied on the methodology and interdisciplinary focus of the ARCANE Programme. As a result, scholars and students will find this volume an essential reference work for the interregional study of the material culture of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean world.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword — MARC LEBEAU

Cypriot Anthropomorphic Figurines — DIANE BOLGER

Inlays — RITA DOLCE & BARBARA COUTURAUD

Organic Materials (Bone, Ivory, Shell) — HERMANN GENZ

Metal Weapons — GUILLAUME GERNEZ

Andirons — MEHMET IŞIKLI & RAPHAEL GREENBERG

Animal Figurines — LUCA PEYRONEL AND ALEXANDER PRUß

Dark Soft Stone Objects — HOLLY PITTMAN

Model Vehicles — ALEXANDER PRUß

Semi-Precious Stones — PHILIPPE QUENET

Canaanean Blades — STEVEN A. ROSEN

Anthropomorphic Terracotta Figurines — FERHAN SAKAL

Stone Vessels — KARIN SOWADA

Bitumen — THOMAS VAN DE VELDE & JACQUES CONNAN

Beads — ZUZANNA WYGNAŃSKA & DANIELLA E. BAR-YOSEF MAYER