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Stone Vessels and Values in the
Bronze Age Mediterranean
The societies that developed in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age produced
the most prolific and diverse range of stone vessel traditions known at any time or anywhere
in the world. Stone vessels are therefore a key class of artefact in the early history of this
region. As a form of archaeological evidence, they offer important analytical advantages over
other artefact types – virtual indestructibility, a wide range of functions and values, huge
variety in manufacturing traditions, as well as the subtractive character of stone and its rich
potential for geological provenancing. Stone also has wide anthropological and archaeological
relevance. It offers a favourable vantage from which to consider concepts of object value
and how these might be approached in the archaeological record. In this book, Andrew
Bevan considers individual stone vessel industries in great detail. He also offers a highly
comparative and value-led perspective on production, consumption, and exchange logics
throughout the eastern Mediterranean over a period of two millennia during the Bronze Age
(ca. 3000–1200 BC).
Andrew Bevan is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His
work has been supported by fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Institute of Aegean
Prehistory, and the Dr. M. Alwyn Cotton Foundation. He also received the Michael Ventris
Memorial Award for Mycenaean Studies.
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Stone Vessels
and Values in the
Bronze Age Mediterranean
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Andrew Bevan
university college london, institute of archaeology
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