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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.
Bear and Human
Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe
Bears have throughout human history been admired and feared by humans in equal measure with an interrelationship between the two species identifiable from pre-modern times through a wealth of material items as well as from cult sites sacral remains images and written sources. This unique interdisciplinary volume draws together sixty-four contributions by experts from across a range of fields in order to shed light on the complex connections between bears and humans in a period extending from the pre-modern into modern times and across an area stretching from England into Russia. From bear biology (represented by work from the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project) and archaeo(zoo)logy to art history and from history of religion to philology the research gathered across this three-volume set explores a wide-range of subjects. Among them are the bear in biology bears and animal agency bear remains in graves and churches the role of bears in religious beliefs (including berserker and bear ceremonialism) bears in literature the philology underpinning why bear is a taboo word and the image of the bear in rock art as well as political iconography up to the present day. Together these wide-ranging but closely thematic texts combine to produce a ground-breaking new work that will prove fundamental in understanding the human connection with this remarkable animal.