Anna K Hodgkinson

Technology and Urbanism in Late Bronze Age Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the distribution of high-status materials in addition to archaeological evidence of their production in the settlements known as royal cities during the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC). The research focuses on the site sites of Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata, but incorporates Qantir/Pi-Ramesse for comparison.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 815g
• ISBN-13: 9780198803591
• ISBN-10: 0198803591
• Artikelnr.: 48377979

Autorenporträt

Dr Anna K. Hodgkinson has over ten years of archaeological fieldwork and data processing experience, having worked as an archaeologist and a GIS specialist in the UK, France, and Egypt, where she has worked at Amarna, Gurob, and Qantir/ Pi-Ramesse. She furthermore directed her own fieldwork at Amarna in 2014, where her team excavated a domestic industrial workshop. Hodgkinson has published papers on Egyptian archaeology as well as on the use of GIS software in archaeology. In 2014, the author carried out a fellowship at the British Museum in London. Since October 2015, she holds Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship at the Freie Universität, Berlin

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction and Background
* 2: Amarna: Urban Manufacture of Luxury Items
* 3: Gurob: Luxury Goods Manufacture in a Harbour- and Palace City
* 4: Malqata: Manufacturing at a Ceremonial Settlement
* 5: Luxury-Goods Manufacture at Amarna, Gurob, and Malqata in
Comparison
* 6: he Workshop as a Microcosm: Workshops and Factories in Urban
Settlements
* 7: Household- or Cottage Industries: Modelling Industrial diversity
in New Kingdom Houses and Courtyards
* 8: Conclusions