An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Frontcover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction. The Archaeology of Bodies and the Eastern Mediterranean John Robb -- PART I: THE REPRESENTED BODY -- 1. Polydactyly in Chalcolithic Figurines from Cyprus Michelle Gamble, Christine Winkelmann and Sherry C. Fox -- 2. Figurines, Paint and the Perception of the Body in the Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Yiannis Papadatos -- 3. Thoughts on the Funerary Use of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) Cycladic Figurines: Iconography, Form, Context and Embodied Lives Dimitra Goula -- 4. Composite, Partial, Created and Floating Bodies: a Re-Assessment of the Knossos Temple Repositories Assemblage Fay Stevens and Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw -- 5. Figurines and Complex Identities in Late Bronze Age Cyprus Daisy Knox -- 6. Handlers and Viewers: Some Remarks on the Process of Perception of Terracotta Figurines on the Example of Cypriot "Goddesses with Upraised Arms" Katarzyna Zeman-Wiśniewska -- PART II: MATERIAL CULTURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES -- 7. Re-Making the Self: Bodies, Identities and Materialities in Chalcolithic Cyprus Diane Bolger -- 9. Dressed to Impress: Metal Objects and Embodied Identities in Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus Maria Mina -- 10. Placed with Care: Interaction with Decorated Mycenaean Metal Vessels Stephanie Aulsebrook -- PART III: RITUALISED PRACTICE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF IDENTITIES -- 11. The Performative Body and Social Identity in the Room of the Fresco at Mycenae Anne P. Chapin -- 12. "It's War, not a Dance": Polarising Embodied Identities in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean from the End of the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, 1200-700 BC Manolis Mikrakis -- 13. Nuptial Vases in Female Tombs? Aspects of Funerary Behaviour during the Late Geometric Period in Attica Vicky Vlachou.

14. Turning into Stone: Rock Art and the Construction of Identities in Ancient Thrace Stella Pilavaki -- PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND SPACE -- 15. Lithics and Identity at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lakonis Cave I, Southern Peloponnese, Greece Paraskevi Elefanti and Eleni Panagopoulou -- 16. Picrolite and Other Stone Beads and Pendants: New Forms in an Old Material during the Transition from the Chalcolithic to the Cypriot Bronze Age Giorgos Georgiou -- 17. The Embodiment of Land Ownership in the Aegean Early Bronze Age Ourania Kouka -- 18. From Potter's Mark to the Potter Who Marks Kostis Christakis -- PART V: THE LIVED BODY AND IDENTITIES -- 19. Grasping Identity: Theoretically informed Human Bioarchaeology in or for the Eastern Mediterranean? Kirsi O. Lorentz -- 20. Headshaping and Identity at Tell Nader Konstantinos Kopanias and Sherry C. Fox -- 21. Constructing Identities by Ageing the Body in the Prehistoric Aegean: the View through the Human Remains Sevi Triantaphyllou -- PART VI: INTERACTION WITH THE DEAD BODY -- 22. Secondary Burials and the Construction of Group Identities in Crete between the Second Half of the 4th and 2nd Millennia BC Luca Girella and Simona Todaro -- 23. Bodies in a Pickle: Burial Jars, Individualism and Group Identities in Middle Minoan Crete Borja Legarra Herrero -- 24. Fire, Fragmentation and the Body in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Yannis Galanakis -- 25. Spatial and Temporal Variability in Identity and Representation within the Bronze Age Cemeteries of Knossos, Crete Eleni Hatzaki -- 26. Collective Selves and Funerary Rituals. Early Mycenaean Dromoi as Spaces of Negotiation and Embodiment of Social Identities Nikolas Papadimitriou -- 27. Burning People, Breaking Things: Material Entanglements, the Bronze Age/Iron Age Transition and the Homeric Dividual James Whitley.

28. Epilogue: Bodies in the Eastern Mediterranean Kostas Kotsakis.

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