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Conceptualizing Bronze Age Seascapes
Concepts of the Sea and Marine Fauna in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium bce
The Mediterranean has for millennia formed the heart of an intensive trading network of ideas goods and people. For the ancient populations of the Levant Cyprus and Southern Anatolia interactions with the sea — from fishing to seafaring and from trade to dye production — were a constant presence in their life. But how did the coastal peoples of the Bronze Age understand the sea? How did living on the shore influence their lives from daily practices to mythological beliefs? And what was the impact on their conceptual world? This volume seeks to engage with these questions by addressing the relationship between environment diet material production perception and thought formation through a combination of archaeological analysis and engagement with primary sources and in doing so it offers unique insights into the conceptual world of the ancient Mediterranean maritime cultures of the 2nd millennium BCE.
Environmental Studies, Remote Sensing, and Modelling
Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project I
The Decapolis city of Jerash has long attracted attention from travellers and scholars due both to the longevity of the site and the remarkable finds uncovered during successive phases of excavation that have taken place from 1902 onwards. Between 2011 and 2016 a Danish-German team led by the universities of Aarhus and Münster focused their attention on the Northwest Quarter of Jerash - the highest point within the walled city - and this volume is the first in a series of books presenting the team’s final results.
Covering different themes and categories of finds this volume focuses on the geophysical survey and other remote-sensing work undertaken in and around the Northwest Quarter and also presents an in-depth discussion of the environmental studies performed at the site. This includes the geoscientific analysis carried out in various contexts as well as radiocarbon dating studies of both human and animal bones and conclusions drawn from the archaeobotanical research.