Artisans versus nobility? : multiple identities of elites and 'commoners' viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean / edited by Ann Brysbaert & Alexis Gorgues.

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English
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  • [Leiden, The Netherlands] : Sidestone Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
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217 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

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    "In prehistoric Europe hierarchic societies arose and developed technological systems and processes in the production of objects related to everyday use, on the one hand, and items of religious and symbolic character emulating prestige and luxury, on the other, while both types of objects may not always be clearly distinguishable. This volume deals with questions of how artisans and other social groups, involved in these productive processes and social practices, reacted to and interacted with the demands connected with elites identities formation, affirmation reconfirmation practices. Innovations and the development of new technologies designed to satisfy the needs of ostentatious behaviour and achieving prestige are key issues of this volume. For example, how can we identify the consequences of such processes, how can we define the role(s) that the craftspeople played in such contexts, and are these always as clear-cut as usually portrayed? The book's common aim is to investigate the economic, socio-political, as well as the technological contexts and backgrounds of the make-up of material culture and technologies in these periods. We examine which role(s) artisans may have played in status and identity formation processes, in rituals and in symbolic performances, in other words, in each aspect of life and death of selected Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age populations in Europe."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: Artisans versus nobility? Crafting in context: introduction / Ann Brysbaert
    • Production as activity. Defining the context of casting production in late prehistoric Scotland / Daniel Sahlen
    • A Place for Crafting? Late Bronze Age Metalworking in Southern Scandinavia and the Issue of Workshops / Anna Sorman
    • The power of production in the northern Iberian world (6th-3rd centuries BC) / Alexis Gorgues
    • Rich metallurgists' graves from the Varna I cemetery. Rediscussing the social role of the earliest metalworkers / Ernst Pernicka
    • Who's in charge here? The making of military communication vectors in the Late Iron Age in western Europe / Alexandre Bertaud
    • Chipped stone tools from the Early Bronze Age settlement of Minferri (2100-1650 cal. BC) (Lleida, Spain). Raw materials, technology and activities inferred / Andreu Moya Garra
    • The artisans of metal and the elite in the western Hallstatt zone (630-450 BC) / Emilie Dubreucq
    • For blacksmiths, are advanced technical skills the way to achieve elite status? The case of the western Hallstatt area during the transition between First and Second Iron Ages / Anne Filippini.
    Other title(s)
    • Multiple identities of elites and 'commoners' viewed through the lens of crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean
    • Artisans versus nobility?
    ISBN
    • 9789088903960 ((softcover))
    • 9088903964 ((softcover))
    • 9789088903977 ((hardcover))
    • 9088903972 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2017436852
    OCLC
    953806344
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