Technology and urbanism in late Bronze Age Egypt
Title:
Technology and urbanism in late Bronze Age Egypt
Oxford studies in Egyptian archaeology
Oxford studies in Egyptian archaeology.
Author:
Hodgkinson, Anna K., author.
ISBN:
9780198803591
0198803591037
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 328 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans, maps ; 25 cm.
Series:
Oxford studies in Egyptian archaeology
Oxford studies in Egyptian archaeology.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction and Background -- Elements of Late Bronze Age Urban Settlements and their Role as Centres of Craft Production -- Late Bronze Age Luxury Goods Industries in Urban Settlements -- Object Categories Included in this Study -- Methods for the Analysis of Late Bronze Age Settlements -- Spaces of Activity: Identifying the Physical Settings of Ancient Egyptian Workshops and Factories -- Manufacture of High-status Goods: A Brief Overview of the Industries -- Amarna: Urban Manufacture of Luxury Items -- History of the Settlement -- History of Excavation -- Suburbs and Houses: The Urban Character of Amarna -- Spatial Analysis of Luxury Goods Manufacture at Amarna -- Some Statistical Data -- Spatial Analysis of Amarna: Summary and Conclusions -- Gurob: Luxury Goods Manufacture in a Harbour and Palace City -- History of the Settlement -- History of Excavation -- Occupation and Layout of the City -- Archaeology of Production: Material from Early Excavations -- Spatial Analysis of Luxury Goods Production at Gurob: A Summary -- Objects from Gurob: Summary of the Spatial Analysis -- Malqata: Manufacturing at a Ceremonial Settlement -- Malqata: Introduction -- History of Excavation and Problems Caused by Past Insufficient Recording -- Site, its Buildings, and History of Occupation -- Archaeology of Production at Malqata -- Material Evidence of High-status Production -- Malqata: Summary and Conclusions -- Luxury Goods Manufacture at Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata Compared -- Problems with the Data Analysed: Quality and Precision -- Glass Objects and Evidence of Glass-working -- Faience Objects and Evidence of Faience Production -- Metal Objects and Evidence of Metal-working -- Sculpture and Evidence of Sculpture Production -- Evidence of Textile Production -- Qantir/Pi-Ramesse: A Discourse -- New Kingdom Egyptian Royal Cities: Conclusions on the Spatial and Artefactual Analyses -- Workshop as a Microcosm: Workshops and Factories in Urban Settlements -- Introduction: The Finer Characteristics of New Kingdom Urban Industrial Settings -- Amarna O45.1: A Workshop for the Processing of Glass, Faience, and Metal -- Gurob IA1: Excavating a High-temperature Workshop of the New Kingdom -- Comparison of Gurob IA1 with Amarna O45.1 -- Summary of Urban High-temperature Workshops at Amarna and Gurob -- Household or Cottage Industries: Modelling Industrial Diversity in New Kingdom Houses and Courtyards -- Amarna's Main City North: Multi-functional Houses -- Amarna's Main City South: Excavations at Grid 12/N50.23/The House of Ranefer, N49.18 -- Malqata Site J: An Excerpt of an Industrial Settlement -- Amarna and Malqata: Comparison of Household-level Industries -- Conclusions: Industrial Diversity and Purpose-built Workshops -- Conclusions -- Influence of Luxury Goods Production on Late Bronze Age Egyptian Settlements -- Social Context, Spatial Organization and Control, and Consumption of High-status Goods in Late Bronze Age Cities -- Spaces of Activity: Late Bronze Age Egyptian Workshops and Factories -- Organization of High-status Craft Production in Late Bronze Age Cities.
Abstract:
"This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the intra-urban distribution of high-status goods, and their production or role as a marker of the nature of the settlements known as royal cities of New Kingdom Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC). Using spatial analysis to detect patterns of artefact distribution, the study focuses on Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, incorporating Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison. Being royal cities, these three settlements had a great need for luxury goods. Such items were made of either highly valuable materials, or materials that were not easily produced and therefore required a certain set of skills. Specifically, the industries discussed are those of glass, faience, metal, sculpture, and textiles. Analysis of the evidence of high-status industrial processes throughout the urban settlements, has demonstrated that industrial activities took place in institutionalized buildings, in houses of the elite, and also in small domestic complexes. This leads to the conclusion that materials were processed at different levels throughout the settlements and were subject to a strict pattern of control. The methodological approach to each settlement necessarily varies, depending on the nature and quality of the available data. By examining the distribution of high-status or luxury materials, in addition to archaeological and artefactual evidence of their production, a deeper understanding has been achieved of how industries were organized and how they influenced urban life in New Kingdom Egypt."--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes.
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