Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East
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12th Century BC
2nd Millennium
2nd Millennium BC
6th Dynasty
ancient production techniques
archaeological ceramics
Ayia Irini
Bronze Age
Canaanite Jars
Carinated Bowls
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Ceramic Assemblages
Conical Cups
craft specialization
cross-cultural comparison
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Intermediate Bronze Age
Kamid El Loz
Kom El Hisn
Late Bronze Age
Late Bronze Age Anatolian
Late Cypriot
material culture analysis
MB IIB
Middle Bronze Age
Middle Bronze Age II
Plain Pottery
Plain Vessels
Plain Ware
Sabi Abyad
social identity formation in early societies
Southern Levant
Southern Levantine
wheel-made vessels
Product details
- ISBN 9781629580906
- Weight: 1200g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2015
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium B.C. This plain pottery has received little detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions. Yet, their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products of craft specialists, the result of high-volume production, and therefore important in understanding the social systems in early complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars understand cross-regional similarities in development and use.
Claudia Glatz is lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her main research interests include archaeological approaches to empire, the relationship of craft production and political power, as well as settlement and landscape studies, especially in border and transitional highland-lowland regions. She co-directs the Cide Archaeological Project, a survey on the west-central Turkish Black Sea coast, and the Sirwan Regional Project in the Kurdish Region of Iraq.
