From Gaul to the Mediterranean East. Functions and status of archaeological finds in their context.
PURennes| N° d'inventaire | 21566 |
| Format | 21 x 27 |
| Détails | 540 p., black and white illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Rennes, Cairo, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
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This volume is the result of the international archaeology conference entitled Archaeological finds in their context, from Gaul to the Mediterranean East: functions and statuses, held at the University of Poitiers. Designed on the scale of the ancient world, bringing together the East and the West, the conference, organized by the HeRMA team (Hellenization and Romanization in the Ancient World), in coordination with the IFAO (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, Cairo), invited researchers to develop their reflections on the links between archaeological finds and their context of discovery within a deliberately broad chronological framework, from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. Objects produced in Antiquity had a function that can, to a certain extent, be identified based on their morphology. The materials used to make them – clay, stone, metal, glass, etc. – contribute to clarifying this identification, raising the question of the accessibility of raw materials and their geographical proximity, or that of the social category to which consumers and/or sponsors belong. At the same time, researchers have developed new directions favoring the notion of assemblage, linked to that of context; it can include a statistical approach to corpora, and aims to increase the possibilities of comparative, economic, and identity analyses. The book includes around fifty contributions whose arrangement takes up the themes distinguished at the time of the conference. It begins with the vision of an anthropologist whose apparently offbeat approach, from a disciplinary, spatial, and chronological point of view, emphasizes the very strong symbolic dimension granted to objects according to their context of use, the existence of which archaeologists can only sense from the artifacts collected during excavations.
This volume is the result of the international archaeology conference entitled Archaeological finds in their context, from Gaul to the Mediterranean East: functions and statuses, held at the University of Poitiers. Designed on the scale of the ancient world, bringing together the East and the West, the conference, organized by the HeRMA team (Hellenization and Romanization in the Ancient World), in coordination with the IFAO (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, Cairo), invited researchers to develop their reflections on the links between archaeological finds and their context of discovery within a deliberately broad chronological framework, from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity. Objects produced in Antiquity had a function that can, to a certain extent, be identified based on their morphology. The materials used to make them – clay, stone, metal, glass, etc. – contribute to clarifying this identification, raising the question of the accessibility of raw materials and their geographical proximity, or that of the social category to which consumers and/or sponsors belong. At the same time, researchers have developed new directions favoring the notion of assemblage, linked to that of context; it can include a statistical approach to corpora, and aims to increase the possibilities of comparative, economic, and identity analyses. The book includes around fifty contributions whose arrangement takes up the themes distinguished at the time of the conference. It begins with the vision of an anthropologist whose apparently offbeat approach, from a disciplinary, spatial, and chronological point of view, emphasizes the very strong symbolic dimension granted to objects according to their context of use, the existence of which archaeologists can only sense from the artifacts collected during excavations.