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Title Material koinai in the Greek early Iron Age and archaic period / edited by Søren Handberg and Anastasia Gadolou
Published Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, charts, plans
Series Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; volume 22
Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; v. 22.
Contents Pottery production and the formation of material or cultural koinai -- Cross cultural connections and material and cultural koinai -- The material koinai of wine drinking
Summary The ancient Greek word koine was used to describe the new common language dialect that became widespread in the ancient Greek world after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Modern scholars have increasingly used the word to conceptualise regional homogeneities in the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, twenty scholars from various disciplines present case studies that focus on the fundamental question of how to perceive and the social and cultural mechanisms that led to the spread and consumption of material culture in the Greek early Iron Age. Combined the chapters provide a critical examination of the use of the koine concept as a heuristic tool in historical research and discuss to what degree similarities in material culture reflect cultural connections. The volume will be of interest scholars interested in archaeological theory and method, the social significance of material culture, and the history of the ancient Greek world in the first half of the first millennium BC
Notes "Acts of an international conference at the Danish Institute at Athens, 30 January - 1 February 2015."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Iron age -- Greece -- Congresses
Material culture -- Greece -- Congresses
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Greece -- Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Antiquities
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Excavations (Archaeology)
Iron age
Material culture
SUBJECT Greece -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject Greece
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Handberg, Søren
Gadolou, Anastasia
Danske institut i Athen.
ISBN 9788771845693
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