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Material chains in late prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean : time, space and technologies of production

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Format : Relié sous jaquette
Nb de pages : 201 pages
Poids : 1136 g
Dimensions : 23cm X 29cm
ISBN : 978-2-35613-194-2
EAN : 9782356131942

Material chains in late prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean

time, space and technologies of production

Chez Ausonius

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Relié sous jaquette 201 pages

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Cet ouvrage, en langue anglaise, réunit diverses contributions portant sur l'étude archéologiques des processus de production. Au travers de différentes études de cas portant sur des contextes variés au sein de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée de la Protohistoire (âge du Bronze, âge du Fer), les auteurs se sont attachés à répondre à des questions aussi variées que : comment identifier et caractériser archéologiquement un espace technique ? Comment interpréter ces espaces ? Comment pouvons-nous reconstruire le cadre social dans lequel s'insérait l'activité technique ? Quelle était sa temporalité ? Quels biais les modalités de formation du registre archéologique peuvent introduire dans nos raisonnements ? Onze chapitres envisagent ces thématiques au travers de recherche portant sur des horizons géographiques variés, du Liban à l'Espagne en passant par l'Europe continentale, et sur des activités diversifiées, de la poterie à la métallurgie en passant par le textile.


Material chains in late prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean

This book brings together contributions about the archaeological study of production processes. Through different case studies from Late Prehistoric Europe and the Mediterranean, it considers theoretical and methodological aspects of the research on technologies of production. It tries to bring answers to such questions as : how to identify and characterize working spaces ? How to interpret them ? How may we reconstruct the social framework in which the production processes took place, their temporality ? What biases does the constitution of the archaeological record introduce in these reconstructions ? Eleven papers consider these issues in different contexts, from Lebanon to Spain, and from potting to metal making.

Biographie

Alexis Gorgues is lecturer in Late Prehistoric archaeology at the University Bordeaux Montaigne, and a member of the CNRS Research Unit Ausonius. He gained his PhD in the University of Toulouse Jean-Jaurès in 2005. A former member of the « Casa de Velázquez » (École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques), he has directed excavations in France and Spain, and has participated to different projects all around the northern Mediterranean. He currently works on Late Bronze and Iron Ages economies in the Western Mediterranean.

Katharina Rebay-Salisbury is a Prehistoric archaeologist. She gained her PhD from the University of Vienna in 2005 and worked as a researcher at the Universities of Cambridge and Leicester. Her research within the Leverhulme-funded project « Tracing Networks » centred on studying human representations, identities and social relations in the Late Bronze and Iron Age of Central Europe. She currently investigates motherhood in prehistoric Europe at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Roderick B. Salisbury is a researcher in prehistoric archaeology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna, with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Buffalo. His research expertise is in human-environment interactions, social and spatial organization, and cultural soilscapes in the Neolithic, Copper and Bronze ages of central and southeast Europe. His research applies geoarchaeological methods and spatial analysis with the principles of behavioral archaeology and historical ecology to reconstruct past social and economic organization and their environmental consequences.

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