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Ashlar : exploring the materiality of Cut-stone masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age

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Format : Broché
Nb de pages : 445 pages
Poids : 400 g
Dimensions : 21cm X 30cm
ISBN : 978-2-87558-964-4
EAN : 9782875589644

Ashlar

exploring the materiality of Cut-stone masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age


Collection(s) | Aegis
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Broché 445 pages

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This volume focusses on ashlar masonry, probably the most elaborate construction technique of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. from a cross-regional perspective. The building practices and the uses of cut- stone components and masonries in Egypt. Syria, the Aegean, Anatolia, Cyprus and the Levant in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC are examined through a series of case studies and topical essays. The topics addressed include the terminology of ashlar building components and the typologies of its masonries, technical studies on the procurement, dressing, tool kits and construction techniques pertaining to cut stone, investigations into the place of ashlar in inter-regional exchanges and craft dissemination, the extent and significance of the use of cut stone within the communities and regions, and the visual effects, social meanings, and symbolic and ideological values of ashlar.

Biographie

Maud Devolder is an Associate Postdoctoral Researcher of the Aegis Research Group, UCLouvain (INCAL/ CEMA). She specializes in the study of the Aegean Bronze Age. and her particular field of expertise is Minoan architecture, with a focus on building processes, materials and techniques, architectural sequences of long- excavated edifices, and the scale of building projects. She directs the study and publication project of the Malia Palace on the north coast of Crete, and collaborates on the excavations of the Minoan site at Sissi.

Igor Kreimerman is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Minerva Stiftung at the Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie in Heidelberg University. His research combines the use of geoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and traditional archaeological methods for the study of formation processes, especially construction and destruction, in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant. He takes part in the excavation and publication projects of Khirbet Qeiyafa. Tel Lachish and Khirbet er-Rai in Israel.

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