Creativity in the Bronze Age
Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production
Published on 18. January 2018
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-1-108-42136-2 (ISBN)
Description
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Tables, black and white; 27 Halftones, black and white; 42 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-42136-2 (9781108421362)
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Lise Bender Jorgensen | Joanna Sofaer | Marie Louise Stig Sorensen
Creativity in the Bronze Age
Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production
E-Book
01/2018
Cambridge University Press
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Lise Bender Jorgensen
Creativity in the Bronze Age
Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production
E-Book
01/2018
Cambridge University Press
€73.99
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Persons
Lise Bender Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of Archaeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is an internationally regarded expert in prehistoric textiles, with an extensive publication record which includes the monographs Forhistoriske Textiler i Skandinavien (Prehistoric Scandinavian Textiles) (1986) and North European Textiles until AD 1000 (1992). Joanna Sofaer is Professor of Archaeology at University of Southampton. She is the author of several volumes, including Clay in the Age of Bronze: Essays in the Archaeology of Prehistoric Creativity (Cambridge, 2015) and The Body as Material Culture (Cambridge, 2006). She is co-director of the excavation of the Bronze Age tell at Szazhalombatta-Foeldvar, Hungary. Marie Louise Stig Sorensen is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies, University of Cambridge, and Professor of Bronze Age Studies, Universiteit Leiden. She has worked extensively on various aspects of the Bronze Age, with a special focus on the construction and performance of identity, and is the author of Gender Archaeology (2000). She is co-director of the excavation of the Bronze Age tell at Szazhalombatta-Foeldvar, Hungary.
Content
Introduction Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender Jorgensen; Part I. Raw Materials: Creativity and the Properties of Materials: Introduction Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender Jorgensen; Fibres for Bronze Age textiles Lise Bender Jorgensen and Antoinette Rast-Eicher; Making metals: from copper to bronze Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Grahame Appleby; Potter's clay Joanna Sofaer; Creativity and materials: reflections Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender Jorgensen; Part II. Production Practices: Introduction Lise Bender Jorgensen, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Joanna Sofaer; Textile production Lise Bender Jorgensen; The production of metal objects Grahame Appleby and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; The production of pottery Joanna Sofaer; Case studies; Introduction; 1. Creativity and spindle whorls at the Bronze Age tell of Szazhalombatta-Foeldvar, Hungary Sophie Bergerbrant; 2. Forming metal: the development of moulds Grahame Appleby and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; 3. Variability in the Chaine Operatoire: the case of Belegis cremation vessels Sarah Coxon; 4. The production of Scandinavian Bronze Age textiles: skill and creativity Solvi Helene Fossoy; 5. Twisting the Bronze Age Lise Bender Jorgensen; Production practices: reflections Lise Bender Jorgensen, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Joanna Sofaer; Part III. Effects: Shape, Motifs, Pattern, Colour, and Texture: Introduction Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jorgensen and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; Case studies; Introduction; 6. Creativity in Bronze Age tailoring: women's blouses from Denmark Helga Roesel-Mautendorfer; 7. The one-edged razor: a vivid medium of creativity and meaning Flemming Kaul; 8. Creativity in middle and late Bronze Age bird-shaped and bird-ornamented ceramic objects in the Carpathian Basin and the lower Danube Region Darko Maricevic and Joanna Sofaer; 9. To decorate a Nordic Bronze Age razor: a design challenge Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Grahame Appleby; 10. Creativity as sensual cosmology: bird iconography on metalwork in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe Sebastian Becker; 11. Pots and stories: creativity and design in the Bronze Age of the Pannonian Plain Joanna Sofaer; 12. Left-right logic: an innovation of the Nordic Bronze Age Flemming Kaul; 13. Textiles: pattern, structure, texture, and decoration Karina Groemer; 14. Pattern, colour, and texture in encrusted ceramics in the Carpathian Basin Joanna Sofaer and Sanjin Mihelic; 15. Creating effects in Litzenkeramik Karina Groemer, Sanjin Mihelic, Sarah Coxon and Joanna Sofaer; Creativity and effects: reflections Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jorgensen and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen; Conclusion Joanna Sofaer, Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Lise Bender Jorgensen.