THRAVSMA
Contextualising the Intentional Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus
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THRAVSMA
Contextualising the Intentional Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus
About this book
How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and the eastern coast of Italy between 4000-750 BC, archaeologists consider the custom of ritually killing objects as a normative, if inconsistent practice. Yet as artefacts that are alike only in that they have been disarticulated, intentionally destroyed objects defy easy characterization. Such pieces frequently stand outside of clearly defined patterns. This volume is an initial step in addressing a gap in the scholarship by aiming to deconstruct and contextualize the practice of intentional fragmentation. The case studies in this volume present a diverse range of evidence, including pottery, lithics, metals, jewellery, figurines, buildings and human remains, in an exploration of the wide spectrum of meanings behind material destruction.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Bibliographic informations
- First pages
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- Fragmented souvenirs
- The Social Life of Θραύσματα
- Bits and pieces
- Situated intentions
- The rough and the smooth
- Damaged Pottery, Damaged Skulls at the Tsepi, Marathon Cemetery
- Evidence for ritual breakage in the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
- Des biens de prestige grecs intentionnellement fragmentés dans un contexte indigène de la Méditerranée occidentale au VIIe siècle av. J.-C.
- Coincident biographies
- Piece Out
- Destruction and other material acts of transformation in Mycenaean funerary practice
- Breaking Up the Past