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Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of the Painted Plaster

Contributor(s): Brysbaert, Ann (Author)

ISBN: 9781845534332

Publisher: Equinox Publishing

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Pub Date: December 20, 2008

Dewey: 930.1509822

LCCN: 2008023918

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.50" L x 6.90" W ( 1.60 lbs) 272 pages

BISAC Categories:

Social Science | Archaeology

Series: Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology

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Description: In the past, Bronze Age painted plaster in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean has been studied from a range of different but isolated viewpoints. One of the current questions about this material is its direction of transfer. This volume brings both technological and iconographic (and other) approaches closer together: 1) by com

Brief description: Ann Brysbaert is Senior Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Leiden.

Review Quotes: "This book is an extremely important piece of research that opens up new vistas in the study of painted plaster in the ancient Aegean and its influence and appearance throughout the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age." - American Journal of Archaeology "The originality of the book relies on its subtitle, the 'painted plaster', where the author has to offer first-hand observations." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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