The Social Lives of Figurines: Reconstructing the Third-Millennium-BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa. Sharri R. Clark. Cambridge, MA: Papers of the Peabody Museum 86, 2017, 362 pp. + CD. $85.00, paper. ISBN 9780873652155.

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-270
Author(s):  
John M. Fritz
Keyword(s):  
Social Lives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Peabody Museum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
Terracotta Figurines

Identity and Adornment in the Third-millennium bc Mesopotamian ‘Royal Cemetery’ at Ur

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Rebecca Gansell
Keyword(s):  
Individual Identity ◽  
Human Sacrifice ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Definition Of

This article presents a study of the deposition of jewellery on bodies in the third-millennium bc Mesopotamian ‘Royal Cemetery’ at Ur. Four assemblages of adornments are identified and evaluated in relation to burial type, gender, age, privilege, and behavioural role. Aspects of the social and ritual identities of the dead are then interpreted through adornment. While the historic definition of the interred community and the precise nature of their practices are open to speculation, this study begins to clarify dynamics of group and individual identity at this site of human sacrifice.

Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC

Archaeometry ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D'Ercole ◽  
G. Eramo ◽  
E. A. A. Garcea ◽  
I. M. Muntoni ◽  
J. R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Raw Material ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc

Narratives for the third millennium

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Ray ◽  
Julian Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
External Stimulus ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bce

By the later part of the third millennium BCE, Britain had become connected to mainland Europe by the so-called ‘Beaker network’. This appears to have involved the circulation of people, materials, and cultural innovations over trans-continental distances. Most tellingly, it included direct evidence for cross-Channel contact and the movement of individual people into Britain who had lived much or most of their lives in continental Europe. However, the evidence for such contact during the previous few centuries is very much sparser. If, as it seems reasonable to infer, developed passage tombs were ultimately an Atlantic European phenomenon that was adopted in idiosyncratic ways in Ireland, Scotland, and finally Scandinavia during the course of the fourth millennium, routine interactions with the Continent are less easy to identify thereafter. In marked contrast with this, the period after 3000 BCE saw the emergence of a range of new interregional connections within Britain and Ireland. These have been less consistently recognized, as they conflict with the traditional narrative in which populations in central and south-west Asia engaged in periodic wholesale migration northward and westward. Such a narrative of external stimulus to change is less secure in this period because we now realize that the social and cultural changes that overtook Britain in the earlier third millennium originated predominantly in the northern and western parts of these islands. Some of the most significant innovations of the third millennium throughout Britain were ultimately generated in the Orkney archipelago and its immediate sphere of contact. While aspects of the unique developments that took place in the Orkneys can be attributed to connections with Ireland and the Western Isles, these contributed to the emergence of a distinctive social formation that was at once highly competitive and spectacularly creative. By the start of the third millennium, Orkney had become a crucible of social and cultural change, but developments in the islands arguably began to diverge from those on the mainland soon after the Neolithic began, perhaps during the thirty-seventh century BCE.

Early Cycladic fortified settlements: aspects of cultural continuity and change in the Cyclades during the third millennium BC

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 131-150
Author(s):  
Anastasia Angelopoulou
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
Analytical Studies ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
New Evidence

Early Cycladic culture (third millennium BC) has been a focus of scientific interest since the late 19th century. Our knowledge of Early Cycladic civilization is based primarily on evidence gathered from a substantial number of cemeteries that have been discovered in various parts of the Cyclades. In comparison, excavations of Early Cycladic settlements are few in number. Thus, habitation comprises an essential yet understudied field of research.Despite these limitations, fieldwork as well as material and analytical studies conducted over the period 2000–2017 have contributed to a far better understanding of Early Cycladic habitation patterns. Excavations and/or publications of important sites, such as Chalandriani and Kastri on Syros, Skarkos on Ios, Dhaskalio and Kavos on Keros, Markiani on Amorgos and Korfari ton Amygdalion (Panormos) on Naxos, have revealed significant new evidence regarding the development and character of Early Cycladic civilization.

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