Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-83732-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 616 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in space and spatiality across the social sciences; the comparative theoretical and methodological neglect of time and temporality; the lack in the existing literature of an explicit and balanced focus on both space and time; and the large amount of new information coming from prehistoric Mediterranean. It focuses on the active and interactive role of space and time in the production of any social environment, drawing equally on contemporary theory and on case-studies from Mediterranean prehistory.

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory seeks to break down the space-time continuum, often assumed rather than inferred, into space-time units and to uncover the varying and variable interrelations of space and time in prehistoric societies across the Mediterranean. The volume is a response to the dissatisfaction with traditional views of space and time in prehistory and revisits these concepts to develop a timely integrative conceptual and analytical framework for the study of space and time in archaeology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Souvatzi, Stella

Hadji, Athena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Space and Time in Prehistory Athena Hadji and Stella Souvatzi Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives 1. What Does a Settlement’s Layout Show about the Society that Inhabits (or Inhabited) it? On the Social Meaning of Space Stavros Stavrides 2. Creating World and Self: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Time, Space, and Process Rachel Harkness 3. Space, Place, and Time: Archaeology and the Understanding of the Build Environment Christopher TenWolde 4. Bodies of Evidence: Space, Time, and Phenomenology Eimear Meegan 5. Semiotic Approaches for the Study of the Urban Environment of the Prehistoric Town of Akrotiri on Thera Konstantinos Athanasiou Part 2: The Material Constitution of Space and Time 6. Time and Place, Memory and Identity in the Early Neolithic of Southwest Asia Trevor Watkins 7. Sharing Space and Time with the Ancestors on Early Bronze Age Crete Emily Miller Bonney 8. Actions in Time: After the Breakage of Pottery and Before the Construction of Walls at Castelo Velho, Alto Douro Lesley K. McFadyen 9. Dwelling Spaces: Some Remarks on the Prehistoric Architecture of the 3rd Millennium BC in the Iberian Peninsula Ana Vale Part 3: Movement, Communication, and Connections 10. Time and Space in the Middle Bronze Age: Ialysos (Rhodes), a Gateway to the Eastern Mediterranean Toula Marketou 11. Space and Decoration in the Aegean Late Bronze Age: Real and Depicted Processions Christos Boulotis 12. Communicating Over Space and Time in Central Mediterranean Prehistory Robin Skeates 13. Space and Temporality in Herding Societies: Exploring the Dynamics of Movement during the Iberian Late Prehistory Patricia Murrieta-Flores and Dimitrijj Mlekuž Part 4: Tradition, Reproduction, Transformation 14. The Four-Dimensional Palace: The Middle Bronze Age Palace of Kabri through Time Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau 15. Constructing the Present Past in the Anatolian Neolithic Bleda S. Düring 16. Reconfiguring Time and Taming Space: Long-Term Patterns to Exploring the Maritime Culture in Sicily during the Third Millennium BC Massimo Cultaro 17. Tradition and Change in the Architecture of Prehistoric Enclosures: The Iberian Peninsula as a Case Study Jose Enrique Marquez Romero and Victor Jimenez Jaimez Discussion Stephanie Koerner Conclusion Stella Souvatzi and Athena Hadji

Über Autor(innen)

Stella Souvatzi is Adjunct Professor at the School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge (Archaeology). She has taught on the theory of archaeology and on Mediterranean archaeology in Britain, Greece and Cyprus, and has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork all over Greece. Her research interests include the Neolithic archaeology of Greece, SE Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, and the theory of archaeology and anthropology. She is the author of A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece: An Anthropological Approach (2008) and of many publications in international journals and edited volumes.
Athena Hadji is Co-ordinator of the e-learning program in the History of Prehistoric Aegean Art at the University of Athens, Greece, and is a Research Associate of the University of the Aegean (Aegean Prehistory). She is the recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards from the Fulbright and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundations, among others. She has collaborated with many cultural institutions and organizations, both public and private. On occasion she curates art exhibitions and publishes extensively on art, archaeology, anthropology and beyond.