Beyond Ornamentation : Jewelry as an Aspect of Material Culture in the Ancient Near East / editors Amir Golani, Zuzanna Wygnańska.

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM) ; Special Studies : 23/2. | Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (PAM). Special Studies : ; 23/2. Publication details: Warsaw : Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw, 2014.Description: 326 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISSN:
  • 1234–5415 (Print)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NK7373  B49 2014
Contents:
Introduction / Amir Golani, Zuzanna Wygnańska -- Map of Major sites discussed in the Text -- The bead workshop at site MPS4, Mil Plain, Azerbaijan: Craft specialization and the manufacture of shell jewelry in the Neolithic / Ilia Heit -- A Badarian–Naqadian cognitive link? Apossible insight on the basis of a Badarian hippopotamus-shaped pendant from Egypt / Maarten Horn -- Cowrie shells and their imitations as ornamental amulets in Egypt and the Near East / Amir Golani -- Tracing the “diadem wearers”: an inquiry into the meaning of simple-form head adornments from the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Near East / Zuzanna Wygnańska -- Amulets? On the possible function of zoomorphic pendants from child burials in Tell Rad Shaqrah (Syria) / Dariusz Szeląg -- Jewelery manufacture in the Kura-Araxes and Bedeni cultures of the southern Caucasus : analogies and distinctions for the reconstruction of a cultural changeover / Eleonora Carminati -- West Anatolian beads and pins in the 2nd millennium BC: some remarks on function and distribution in comparison with neighboring regions / Magda Pieniążek, Ekin Kozal -- Beads, pendants and other ornaments from late 3rd–2nd millennium BC occupation on Failaka, Kuwait / Ann Andersson -- Vitreous beads from the Uluburun shipwreck / Rebecca S. Ingram -- Personaldisplay in the southern Levant and the question of Philistine cultural origins / Josephine Verduci -- Revealed by their jewelry : ethnic identity of israelites during the Iron Age in the southern Levant / Amir Golani -- Personal ornaments at Hasanlu, Iran / Megan Cifarelli.
Summary: Appears annually, in English, presenting the full extent of archaeological, geophysical, restoration and study work carried out by expeditions from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The PCMA is present in the Near East and northeastern Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Kuwait, formerly also in Iraq). Projects cover all periods from prehistory and protohistory through the Islamic age, emphasizing in particular broadly understood Greco-Roman culture and Early Christianity in the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean.
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Introduction / Amir Golani, Zuzanna Wygnańska -- Map of Major sites discussed in the Text -- The bead workshop at site MPS4, Mil Plain, Azerbaijan: Craft specialization and the manufacture of shell jewelry in the Neolithic / Ilia Heit -- A Badarian–Naqadian cognitive link? Apossible insight on the basis of a Badarian hippopotamus-shaped pendant from Egypt / Maarten Horn -- Cowrie shells and their imitations as ornamental amulets in Egypt and the Near East / Amir Golani -- Tracing the “diadem wearers”: an inquiry into the meaning of simple-form head adornments from the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Near East / Zuzanna Wygnańska -- Amulets? On the possible function of zoomorphic pendants from child burials in Tell Rad Shaqrah (Syria) / Dariusz Szeląg -- Jewelery manufacture in the Kura-Araxes and Bedeni cultures of the southern Caucasus : analogies and distinctions for the reconstruction of a cultural changeover / Eleonora Carminati -- West Anatolian beads and pins in the 2nd millennium BC: some remarks on function and distribution in comparison with neighboring regions / Magda Pieniążek, Ekin Kozal -- Beads, pendants and other ornaments from late 3rd–2nd millennium BC occupation on Failaka, Kuwait / Ann Andersson -- Vitreous beads from the Uluburun shipwreck / Rebecca S. Ingram -- Personaldisplay in the southern Levant and the question of Philistine cultural origins / Josephine Verduci -- Revealed by their jewelry : ethnic identity of israelites during the Iron Age in the southern Levant / Amir Golani -- Personal ornaments at Hasanlu, Iran / Megan Cifarelli.

Appears annually, in English, presenting the full extent of archaeological, geophysical, restoration and study work carried out by expeditions from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The PCMA is present in the Near East and northeastern Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Kuwait, formerly also in Iraq). Projects cover all periods from prehistory and protohistory through the Islamic age, emphasizing in particular broadly understood Greco-Roman culture and Early Christianity in the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean.

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