Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece

Manipulating Material Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID19906785
AuthorsLisa Nevett, Lisa C Nevett (corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages338
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTheoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3998/mpub.8287082
OpenAlexW4242467236
Open LibraryOL27403172M
ISBN9780472130238
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDKDONDgAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received11

In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight into aspects of ancient society. An introductory section exploring the emergence and growth of theoretical approaches is followed by examinations of the potential insights these approaches provide. The authors probe some of the meanings attached to ancient objects, townscapes, and cemeteries, for those who created, and used, or inhabited them. The range of contexts stretches from the early Greek communities during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, through Athens between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE, and on into present day Turkey and the Levant during the third and second centuries BCE. The authors examine a range of practices, from the creation of individual items such as ceramic vessels and figurines, through to the construction of civic buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a range of spheres, from craft production, through civic and religious practices, to funerary ritual

Aesthetics · Ancient Greece · Ancient Greek · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Classical archaeology · Craft · Geography · Identity (music) · Sculpture · Section (typography) · Sociology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · ancient · Ancient Cities and towns · Antiquities · Cemeteries · Europe · Excavations (Archaeology) · Greece · Landscape archaeology · Material culture · Regional Studies · Social archaeology · Social Science

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