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The social lives of pottery on the Plain of Flowers: An archaeology of pottery production, distribution, and consumption in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus.

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Title/Author:	The social lives of pottery on the Plain of Flowers: An archaeology of pottery production, distribution, and consumption in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus./
Author:	Greene, Alan F.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2013,
Description:	498 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International75-08A.
Subject:	Archaeology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3606317
ISBN:	9781303634369

The social lives of pottery on the Plain of Flowers: An archaeology of pottery production, distribution, and consumption in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus.
Greene, Alan F.

The social lives of pottery on the Plain of Flowers: An archaeology of pottery production, distribution, and consumption in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2013 - 498 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2013.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

How are the economic sub-domains of production, distribution, and consumption (re)organized to facilitate and produce the dynamics critical to political association and sovereignty? Through the case of the earliest complex polities in southern Caucasia, and specifically those of northwestern Armenia and the Tsaghkahovit Plain (Plain of Flowers), this dissertation presents an analysis of the particular chains of transactions in the economy of ceramic containers and equipment as they were arranged in the Late Bronze Age (LBA), ca. 1500-1150 B.C. During a period in which essential political forms of severe social inequality were being institutionalized into local and regional political vocabularies of the everyday, the social lives of specific containers and equipment traced rather specific and regular trajectories, even as they were differentiated across what appear to have been several different sociotechnical regimes of production. By relying on a biographical conception of economic life, by which is meant a commitment to documenting in detail the various and multi-linear sequences of material production, distribution, and consumption transactions for individual artifacts, the dissertation discusses how pottery produced at several loci around the LB plain were distributed between local fortresses, burial necropoleis, hilltop shrines, and workshops--both as containers of agropastoral goods offered to hilltop ``total-institutions'' and empty ceramic commodities. In forging an archaeometry that views critically the historical development of various instrumentation and interpretation rubrics in archaeological materials analysis, the author presents the results of the visual, compositional, and structural analysis of a pottery collection derived from new excavations at the site of Aragatsi Berd, as well as the previously excavated sites of Gegharot and Tsaghkahovit. In contrast to existing models of political-economic organization in the Bronze Age Near East and other global locales that see power over subjects to be based primarily on the direct control and redistribution of foodstuffs, elite luxury goods, and other material resources, it is argued that the LB political economy in the Tsaghkahovit Plain depended more on the ability of sovereign authorities to cultivate dynamics of production, distribution, and exchange that finely focused economic life on semi-public, sacro-social fortress spaces, all of which incorporated ceramic containers and equipment during rituals, feasts, productive acts, and transactions of prestation and tribute. In this way, the inflows and outflows of containers and goods from LB fortresses were responsible for the consistent accumulation and dispersion of material wealth through the idiom of sacred duty and social obligation. Multiple new methods for the assemblage-based, non-destructive analysis of archaeological ceramics, developed specifically to analyze the pottery collections relevant to this investigation, are also outlined in detail.

ISBN: 9781303634369Subjects--Topical Terms:

558412
Archaeology.
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Anthropological archaeology

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