Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.4.0415
Cohen
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.3.0299
Lehmann
{"title":"Review","authors":"Lehmann","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.3.0299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.3.0299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70846784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.3.0247
L. García, B. Guardia
{"title":"Typology and Multifunctionality of Public Libraries in Rome and the Empire","authors":"L. García, B. Guardia","doi":"10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.3.0247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.9.3.0247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70846720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0273
Anja Krieger
abstract:The majority of current research dealing with the maritime world is centered on abstract notions such as trade, networks, connectivity, or the movement of objects. Yet, while these abstractions are useful and necessary, they often tend to neglect the people involved in seafaring activities and their experiences, contributing to the still dominant perception of the open sea as an empty space. This article seeks to address the human maritime experience as an intrinsic part of a seascape by tracing the specific experiences a sailor would have made out at sea. Based on an analysis of archaeological material derived from Late Bronze Age and Archaic shipwrecks from the eastern Mediterranean and incorporating comparative textual sources and iconography the article will attempt to shed light on particular aspects of maritime culture in prehistoric societies that are hard to grasp.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0314
S. Blakely
abstract:Political and spiritual ecologies provide a framework for comparative analysis between the Melanesian kula and the civic and ritual institutions around the mystery cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace. These ecologies recognize the role of cosmology and cultural narrative in organizing social behavior into resilient responses that enable social and economic needs. This study utilizes three categories F. H. Damon has established for exploring the kula: collective thinking, social organizations, and the coupling of nature and culture in complex adaptive systems. Both Greek and Melanesian systems are characterized by asymmetrical exchange, a role for prominent families, identity, trust, and emotional intensity. Analogies at the cosmological level, legible in three Samothracian myths, suggest that the Greek systems rendered the natural world a model of the moral forces stipulated by proxenia grants that mitigated the anthropogenic risks of maritime travel, making myth as critical as civic institutions in realizing maritime safety.
政治和精神生态学为美拉尼西亚库拉与围绕萨莫色雷斯大神神秘崇拜的公民和仪式制度之间的比较分析提供了一个框架。这些生态学认识到宇宙学和文化叙事在组织社会行为以实现社会和经济需求的弹性反应中的作用。本研究利用了F. H. Damon建立的三个范畴:集体思维、社会组织和复杂适应系统中自然与文化的耦合。希腊和美拉尼西亚体系的特点都是不对称交换、显赫家族的角色、身份、信任和情感强度。在宇宙层面上的类比，可以在三个萨莫色雷斯神话中读到，表明希腊体系将自然世界呈现为proxenia grants规定的道德力量的模型，以减轻海上旅行的人为风险，使神话与实现海上安全的公民制度一样重要。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0287
I. Berg
abstract:The sea tends to shape people’s lives in a myriad of practical and symbolic ways. This article argues that it is therefore unsurprising that the sea also impacted on copper workers in the southern Aegean during the Early Bronze Age. Here, the sea was an integral element of the copper production, which is characterized by movement of metal across the sea from one manufacturing stage to the next—often over considerable distances requiring lengthy absences of the workers from their home communities, making metalworkers true maritime specialists alongside the more “typical” traders, fishermen, and seafarers. The distances traveled magnified the symbolic value of the raw materials as the object’s geographic distance became converted into a symbolic value-added “exotic” distance. This value was further enhanced thanks to the mastery of skills required to traverse the sea, an element very different from land and intimately associated with forgetting, disposal, and death.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0365
C. Tully
abstract:The Griffin Warrior Ring No. 2 is a gold Minoan-style engraved signet ring from Pylos dating to the Late Helladic IIA (1580–1490 BCE). The ring’s bezel depicts a seascape with a columnar tree shrine flanked by palm trees situated on a rocky outcrop. Five elaborately dressed female figures stand on either side of the shrine. The tree shrine features a net pattern in the space between its stone or brick piers. I argue that this represents a fishing net and that the structure is a sea altar dedicated to an unnamed Minoan tree deity. The ring’s hoop is decorated with cockleshells, further emphasizing its marine theme. I propose that the iconography alludes to marine food resources, practical and luxury textile fibers, sea trade, transculturality, and cult and is testament to the importance of the sea in the Aegean Bronze Age.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0207
Peter B. Campbell
abstract:An understanding of human mobility and cultural connectivity requires an accurate conception of that which facilitates maritime movement: the sea. The theory of “maritime cultural landscapes” has sought to address these questions from a landscape approach, and it is perhaps the most influential theory in maritime archaeology over the last thirty years. However, recent developments in philosophy challenge the cognitive-landscape theory underpinning the paradigm. This article examines these philosophies, the “flat ontologies” of Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and argues that they can be used to understand the sea as a new type of entity—a hyperobject. In this approach, the sea is not a landscape or facilitator of human activity but an entity of vast geographical and temporal scale that possesses agency. It argues for moving beyond idealist philosophies, such as cultural landscapes, toward the realist philosophy of OOO, including understanding the sea as a hyperobject.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0345
A. G. Robinson, Giorgi Khaburzania
abstract:During extensive field surveys by the authors in southwest Georgia, more than 30 megalithic fortress complexes were recorded. A subset is situated at intervals along the ridges of the study region’s two major rivers, the Kura and the Paravani; significantly, each complex in this group overlooks a confluence between one of these rivers and a tributary. For anyone entering into the gorges along those tributaries, the fortresses across the rivers—with their walls of massive stones and near-unreachable settings—must have made an impressive sight. In combinations that also included fortresses in the mountains, they appear to have formed borders around arable plateaus. Those borders were reinforced by the wide and fast-flowing Kura and Paravani themselves, representing physical and, arguably, symbolic barriers to crossing up to the highlands. Architecture, the local knowledge of the builders, terrain, and human imagination all combined to form strong borders in this historically much-contested place.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.8.3-4.0250
Crystal Safadi, Fraser Sturt, L. Blue
abstract:This article brings to light small-scale and everyday maritime activities through the consolidation of Early Bronze Age maritime-related material culture from the coastal Levant. By doing so, the research provides an alternative perspective on Early Bronze Age maritime activities, away from broad accounts of connectivity that neglect small-scale rhythms of coastal life. The application of temporally imbued spatial analyses serves to contextualize the material record for maritime activities in a wider sphere of coastal dynamics and interaction. Through an analysis of the whole Levantine coast, this article transcends the separation between the southern, central, and northern Levant. In this way, the sea acts as a unifying agent, a common denominator. By shifting perspectives toward the sea, emphasis is placed on the importance of maritime activities without which our understanding of Early Bronze Age coastal communities and broader Early Bronze Age developments, such as social complexity, is limited.
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