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New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World
21st-Century Methods and Classical Antiquity
Series: - Monumenta Graeca et Romana, Volume: 27
Editor:
New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World is about Classical Archaeology at its broadest and is important reading to all Classicists. As part of a recent movement to highlight the rich diversity of the subject it overcomes traditional disciplinary boundaries to show the variety of current approaches to the study of Classical Antiquity from the Late Bronze Age to the Late Antique period. The multi-disciplinary papers deal with archaeology and art history, museum objects and fieldwork data, ancient texts and material culture, archaeological theory and historiography, and technical and literary analysis. The international contributors discuss a selection of methodologies currently used to study ancient material, and illustrate their relevance through case studies which span the Greek and Roman world.
Kate Cooper (Ph.D. London, 2007) is Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and lectures at the University of Toronto. She specialises in Archaic Greece and has curated displays at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Royal Ontario Museum.
Contributors are: Nicola Barham, Sarah H. Blake, Anna Collar, C. L. (Kate) Cooper, Jennifer Dyer, Julie Hruby, Jeff Maish, Sarah C. Murray, Dimitri Nakassis, Magdalena Ãhrman, Kevin Pluta, Philip Sapirstein, David Saunders, Karen Trentelman.
Contributors are: Nicola Barham, Sarah H. Blake, Anna Collar, C. L. (Kate) Cooper, Jennifer Dyer, Julie Hruby, Jeff Maish, Sarah C. Murray, Dimitri Nakassis, Magdalena Ãhrman, Kevin Pluta, Philip Sapirstein, David Saunders, Karen Trentelman.
"In sum, this volume deserves a place in every major research library, where readers from a wide range of specialties will find several essays of interest." - Seth Pevnick, in: BMCR 2021.08.29
Acknowledgements
A Note to the Reader
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Old and New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture
âCatherine L. Cooper (Kate Cooper)
1 Networks, Connectivity, and Material Culture
âAnna Collar
2 Big Data and Greek Archaeology: Potential, Hazards, and a Case Study from Early Greece
âSarah Murray
3 Biography of the Bull-Leaper: A âMinoanâ Ivory Figurine and Collecting Antiquity
âCatherine L. Cooper (Kate Cooper)
4 Labour Organisation and Energetics of Early Archaic Architecture in Korinthos
âPhilip Sapirstein
5 Collaborative Investigations into the Production of Athenian Pottery
âDavid Saunders, Karen Trentelman, and Jeffrey Maish
6 âEverything impossibleâ: Admiring Glass in Ancient Rome
âNicola Barham
7 The Pylos Tablets Digital Project: Prehistoric Scripts in the 21st Century
âDimitri Nakassis, Kevin Pluta, and Julie Hruby
8 Objects and Things in Classical Literature
âSarah Blake and Jennifer Dyer
9 The Soundscape of Textile Work in the Roman World: Old Sources & New Methods
âMagdalena Ãhrman
Index of Ancient Sources Cited or Mentioned
General Index
A Note to the Reader
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Old and New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture
âCatherine L. Cooper (Kate Cooper)
Part 1: Adopting Approaches
1 Networks, Connectivity, and Material Culture
âAnna Collar
2 Big Data and Greek Archaeology: Potential, Hazards, and a Case Study from Early Greece
âSarah Murray
3 Biography of the Bull-Leaper: A âMinoanâ Ivory Figurine and Collecting Antiquity
âCatherine L. Cooper (Kate Cooper)
Part 2: Material Approaches
4 Labour Organisation and Energetics of Early Archaic Architecture in Korinthos
âPhilip Sapirstein
5 Collaborative Investigations into the Production of Athenian Pottery
âDavid Saunders, Karen Trentelman, and Jeffrey Maish
6 âEverything impossibleâ: Admiring Glass in Ancient Rome
âNicola Barham
Part 3: âReadingâ Material
7 The Pylos Tablets Digital Project: Prehistoric Scripts in the 21st Century
âDimitri Nakassis, Kevin Pluta, and Julie Hruby
8 Objects and Things in Classical Literature
âSarah Blake and Jennifer Dyer
9 The Soundscape of Textile Work in the Roman World: Old Sources & New Methods
âMagdalena Ãhrman
Index of Ancient Sources Cited or Mentioned
General Index
Advanced undergraduates, graduates, and faculty interested in all aspects of the culture, art history, archaeology, or material of the Classical world from the Late Bronze Age to Late Antiquity.