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Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory

Edited by STELLA SOUVATZI, Athena Hadji

To Be Published June 1st 2013 by Routledge – 296 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

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Description

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in space and spatiality across the social sciences; the comparative theoretical and methodological neglect of time and temporality; the lack in the existing literature of an explicit and balanced focus on both space and time; and the large amount of new information coming from prehistoric Mediterranean. It focuses on the active and interactive role of space and time in the production of any social environment, drawing equally on contemporary theory and on case-studies from Mediterranean prehistory.

Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory seeks to break down the space-time continuum, often assumed rather than inferred, into space-time units and to uncover the varying and variable interrelations of space and time in prehistoric societies across the Mediterranean. The volume is a response to the dissatisfaction with traditional views of space and time in prehistory and revisits these concepts to develop a timely integrative conceptual and analytical framework for the study of space and time in archaeology.

Contents

Introduction: Space and Time in Prehistory Athena Hadji and Stella Souvatzi Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives 1. What Does a Settlement’s Layout Show about the Society that Inhabits (or Inhabited) it? On the Social Meaning of Space Stavros Stavrides 2. Creating World and Self: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Time, Space, and Process Rachel Harkness 3. Space, Place, and Time: Archaeology and the Understanding of the Build Environment Christopher TenWolde 4. Bodies of Evidence: Space, Time, and Phenomenology Eimear Meegan 5. Semiotic Approaches for the Study of the Urban Environment of the Prehistoric Town of Akrotiri on Thera Konstantinos Athanasiou Part 2: The Material Constitution of Space and Time 6. Time and Place, Memory and Identity in the Early Neolithic of Southwest Asia Trevor Watkins 7. Sharing Space and Time with the Ancestors on Early Bronze Age Crete Emily Miller Bonney 8. Actions in Time: After the Breakage of Pottery and Before the Construction of Walls at Castelo Velho, Alto Douro Lesley K. McFadyen 9. Dwelling Spaces: Some Remarks on the Prehistoric Architecture of the 3rd Millennium BC in the Iberian Peninsula Ana Vale Part 3: Movement, Communication, and Connections 10. Time and Space in the Middle Bronze Age: Ialysos (Rhodes), a Gateway to the Eastern Mediterranean Toula Marketou 11. Space and Decoration in the Aegean Late Bronze Age: Real and Depicted Processions Christos Boulotis 12. Communicating Over Space and Time in Central Mediterranean Prehistory Robin Skeates 13. Space and Temporality in Herding Societies: Exploring the Dynamics of Movement during the Iberian Late Prehistory Patricia Murrieta-Flores and Dimitrijj Mlekuž Part 4: Tradition, Reproduction, Transformation 14. The Four-Dimensional Palace: The Middle Bronze Age Palace of Kabri through Time Eric H. Cline and Assaf Yasur-Landau 15. Constructing the Present Past in the Anatolian Neolithic Bleda S. Düring 16. Reconfiguring Time and Taming Space: Long-Term Patterns to Exploring the Maritime Culture in Sicily during the Third Millennium BC Massimo Cultaro 17. Tradition and Change in the Architecture of Prehistoric Enclosures: The Iberian Peninsula as a Case Study Jose Enrique Marquez Romero and Victor Jimenez Jaimez Discussion Stephanie Koerner Conclusion Stella Souvatzi and Athena Hadji

Author Bio

Stella Souvatzi is Adjunct Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus, Greece, where she co-ordinates the course ‘Archaeology in the Greek World’, and Adjunct Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University. She is the author of the monograph A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2008). She has conducted extensive archaeological fieldwork all over Greece and currently she is involved as senior investigator in field research and publications projects. Her research interests include the prehistory (particularly the Neolithic) of Greece, Balkans and the Near East, archaeological and anthropological theory, architecture and the use of space, houses, households and communities, and themes in interpreting the past, particularly, identity and the role of archaeology in the construction of the past. On these subjects she has published widely, in addition to her monograph, in international journals and edited volumes. She has also developed editorial experience in her role as member of the editorial board of the yearly volume Kritiki Diepistimonikotita (Critical Interdisciplinarity, Athens) for the past five years.

Athena Hadji teaches History of Ancient Greek and Byzantine Art at the Open University of Cyprus, Greece a course she also co-ordinates, and Archaeology at the Hellenic Open University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA), with emphasis on Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology. Dr. Hadji is also registered in the faculty of the National School for Public Administration, Cultural Management Division. She has excavated extensively in mainland Greece and the Cyclades. Her research interests focus on Early Bronze Age Aegean archaeology, Anthropology of Space and Time, art of the Prehistoric Aegean, Anthropology of Art, Anthropology of Technology, the reception of Antiquity in later times up to present, and the inception and history of prehistoric Aegean archaeology. She has discussed the aforementioned issues in conferences, both as presenter and session organizer, and in many written contributions.

Name: Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by STELLA SOUVATZI, Athena Hadji. Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four...
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