Ashlar
Exploring the Materiality of Cut-Stone Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age
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 cutstone 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 signifi cance of the use of cut stone within the communities and regions, and the visual eff ects, social meanings, and symbolic and ideological values of ashlar.
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- Publisher
- Presses universitaires de Louvain
- Edited by
- Maud Devolder, Igor Kreimerman,
- Collection
- AEGIS
- Language
- English
- BISAC Subject Heading
- SOC003000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
- BIC subject category (UK)
- HD Archaeology > HDDK Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
- Onix Audience Codes
- 06 Professional and scholarly
- CLIL (Version 2013-2019)
- 3385 Antiquité
- Title First Published
- 25 June 2020
- Subject Scheme Identifier Code
- : Archéologie
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 25 June 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9782875589644
- Extent
- Main content page count : 478
- Code
- 100752
- Dimensions
- 21 x 29.7 cm
- Weight
- 1213 grams
- Packaging Type
- No outer packaging
- List Price
- 69.50 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
- Publication Date
- 25 June 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9782875589651
- Extent
- Main content page count : 478
- Code
- 100752PDF
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
Statements in Stone xxvii
Minoan Ashlar
Jan Driessen
1. Leaving No Ashlar Unturned 1
Igor Kreimerman
Maud Devolder
2. Approaching Ashlar Masonry through Minoan and Mycenaean Iconography 73
Fritz Blakolmer
3. Building in Stone and Mudbrick 97
Frances Pinnock
4. Addressing Disruption 121
D. Matthew Buell
John C. McEnroe
5. Form and Function of Ashlar in Middle and Late Bronze Age Anatolia 147
Çiğdem Maner
6. The Ruling Stones? 169
Nurith Goshen
7. Mycenaean Ashlar Masonry 187
James C. Wright
8. Exploring Late Bronze Age Stoneworking Connections through Metal Tools 215
Nicholas G. Blackwell
9. Stone Tools Related to Stone Masonry Techniques in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean 241
Athina Boleti
10. Ashlar in Ras Shamra-Ugarit 265
Jean-Claude Bessac
Valérie Matoïan
11. The Materiality of Ashlar Masonry on Late Bronze Age Cyprus 307
Kevin D. Fisher
12. Accommodations to Building Design and Labor Organization for Cut-Stone Thresholds in
Mycenaean Greece 341
Kyle A. Jazwa
13. Materiality of Power through Masonry at Mycenaean Kalamianos 365
Daniel J. Pullen
Philip Sapirstein
14. 'Mycenaean' Façade Construction in the Western Messara, Crete 389
Joseph W. Shaw
15. On the Ashlar Walls of Late Bronze Age Akrotiri (Thera) 421
Erika Notti