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Book SynopsisArchaeology is in crisis. Spatial turns, material turns and the ontological turn have directed the discipline away from its hard-won battle to ­ find humanity in the past. Meanwhile, popularised science, camouflaged as archaeology, produces shock headlines built on ancient DNA analyses that reduce humanity’s most intriguing historical problems to ‘just-so stories’. Today archaeology ­finds itself less able than ever to proclaim its relevance to the modern world.This volume foregrounds the relevance of the scholarship of John C. Barrett to this crisis. Twenty-four writers representing three generations of archaeologists scrutinise the current turmoil in the discipline and highlight the resolutions that may be found through Barrett’s analytical framework. Topics include archaeology and the senses, the continuing problem of the archaeological record, practice, discourse and agency, reorienting archaeological field practice, the question of different expressions of human diversity and material ecologies. Understanding archaeology as both a universal and highly specific discipline, case studies range from the Aegean to Orkney, and encompass Anatolia, Korea, Romania, the United Kingdom and the very nature of the Universe itself. This critical examination of John Barrett’s contribution to archaeology is simultaneously a response to his urgent call to arms to reorient archaeology in the service of humanity.Table of ContentsList of contributors List of tables List of figures Preface The archaeology of John C. Barrett 1. (Re)placing humanity? Responses to the crisis in archaeology Michael J. Boyd and Roger C.P. Doonan 2. Bibliography of John C. Barrett Prehistory in transition 3. The late Neolithic midden in Orkney: decay, assemblages and the efficacy of unwanted things Jane Downes and Colin Richards 4. In what way is one dead for an Eneolithic tell community? The construction of the dead body’s presence at Căscioarele-Ostrovel (Romania) Alexandra Ion 5. Conceptualising wealth and value in the Bronze Age Christopher Tilley 6. An assemblage of Early Bronze Age metalwork from the Scottish Highlands: Dail na Caraidh in retrospect Richard Bradley Fields of discourse and an archaeology of inhabitation 7. ‘Contextual archaeology’ revisited: reflections on archaeology, assemblages and semiotics Zoë Crossland 8. Making the past human: history, archaeology and myth Martial Staub 9. What future for archaeology’s past? Krysti Damilati and Giorgos Vavouranakis 10. Fragments from Minoan Crete: social practice at the EM IIA–MM IB (2650–1875 BCE) Court Building at Knossos Ilse Schoep 11. Cemeteries of discourse: re-inhabiting a social arena Mark S. Peters 12. Towards an ‘archaeology of the conditions of possibility’ Ilhong Ko 13. ‘Fields of discourse’ revisited: a Simondonian perspective Despina Catapoti and Maria Relaki Practice and record 14. ‘Ode to a treethrow’ and other reflexive thoughts: multivocal engagements at Heathrow airport Catriona Gibson 15. Project design and implementation: reflections on Framework Michael J. Boyd with Colin Renfrew 16. From fields of discourse to fields of sensoriality: rethinking the archaeological record Yannis Hamilakis 17. Critical discourse and creative labours: learning and teaching archaeology with John C. Barrett Brian Boyd Material ecologies and forms of humanness 18. Bio-socio-material entanglements: archaeology and the extended evolutionary synthesis Ian Hodder 19. To love is to nourish: a thermodynamic perspective on practice and perception Roger C.P. Doonan 20. Is the universe sentient? What implications might this have for archaeology? Chris Gosden and Mark PollardPerspective 21. Agency and life Andrew Meirion Jones Index

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Book SynopsisThis second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The significance of these finds is that these are the principal testimonies of the influence of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic cultures in the wider Aegean. This influence is shown both by the export of sculptures produced in the Cyclades (and made of Cycladic marble), and of their imitations, produced elsewhere in the Aegean, usually of local marble. They hold the key, therefore, to the cultural interactions developing at this time, the so-called ‘international spirit’ manifest particularly during the Aegean Early Bronze II period.This was the time when the foundations of early Aegean civilisation were being laid, and the material documented is thus of considerable significance. The volume is divided into sections wherein contributions examine finds and their archaeological, social, and economic contexts from specific regions. It concludes with an overview of the significance and role of these objects in Early Bronze Age societies of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region. This will be the first time that this material has been systematically gathered together. Highly illustrated, it follows and builds on the successful preceding volume, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxbow 2016).Trade ReviewAll papers are well illustrated, and the commendable practice of showing all figurine illustrations at a common scale of 1:2 is continued from the previous volumes […] Ultimately, the material presented in this volume adds interestingly to the corpus of soundly documented items [...] * Journal of Greek Archaeology *Altogether the three conference volumes on early Cycladic sculpture 'in context' are of inestimable value […] For anyone interested in early Cycladic or Cycladic idol sculpture, the book is therefore indispensable. * Gnomon *Table of ContentsList of contributors Abbreviations List of figures List of tables Preface 1 Introduction Colin Renfrew Before the Bronze Age 2 Past in the past: examples of Neolithic figurines from mainland Greece and Early Cycladic anthropomorphic imagery Fanis Mavridis Attica 3 An Early Cycladic figurine from the Acropolis of Athens Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki Appendix: optical examination of a Cycladic-type marble figurine from the Acropolis and vessels from Makronisos in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens Dimitris Tambakopoulos & Yannis Maniatis 4 Aghios Kosmas revisited: the Cycladic figurines from the Early Helladic site at Aghios Kosmas in Attica Katerina Kostanti & Alexandra Christopoulou 5 Two Cycladic figurines from subterranean Chamber III, in the Early Helladic settlement at Koropi, eastern Attica Olga Kakavogianni 6 Cycladic figurines from Tsepi, Marathon Maria Pantelidou Gofa 7 Fragment of an Early Cycladic folded-arm figurine from the acropolis of Brauron Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos 8 An Early Helladic figurine from Loutsa, Attica Maria Stathi 9 A schematic figurine from the area of Kephissos in Aegaleo, Αthens Eleni Asimakou 10 A figurine from a tomb at Mandra in western Attica Kalliopi Papangeli 11 A fragmentary Cycladic figurine from Nea Kephisia, Attica Theodora Georgousopoulou 12 Cycladic-type figurines from the Early Helladic cemetery of Asteria at Glyfada, Attica Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou Appendix: the bioarchaeological context of the Asteria figurines Eleanna Prevedorou Peloponnese 13 Early Cycladic sculpture from Delpriza in the southern Argolid Angeliki Kossyva 14 Cycladic figurine from the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas in Epidauria Vassilis Lambrinoudakis 15 A Cycladic figurine from Upper Epidaurus Christos Piteros 16 An Early Cycladic figurine from a Late Protogeometric burial context in Argos Evangelia Pappi North Aegean, Boeotia, Euboea, Phthiotis and Skyros 17 Early Bronze Age schematic figurines from Thermi on Lesbos Olga Philaniotou 18 A comment on a Cycladic figurine in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes Eleni Andrikou 19 Cycladic figurines from Euboea Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki 20 Manika revisited: a recontextualisation of Euboean Cycladica in the light of new research Adamantios Sampson & Athena Hadji 21 Cycladic marble figurines from the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nea Styra, Euboea Maria Kosma 22 Cycladica from the settlement at Palamari on Skyros Liana Parlama 23 Conspicuous consumption in the settlement context of Early Bronze Age Proskynas in East Lokris, central Greece Eleni Zahou Dodecanese and Asia Minor littoral 24 Early Cycladic figurines from Vathy, Astypalaia Andreas Vlachopoulos & Anastasia Angelopoulou 25 Early Cycladic II and Early Bronze II finds from the Dodecanese: the case of the island of Kos Toula Marketou 26 Αn Early Cycladic anthropomorphic figurine from the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes Athena Hadji 27 Local and imported in action: western Anatolian and Cycladic figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus Ourania Kouka 28 3rd-millennium BC anthropomorphic figurines of western Anatolia, a comparative view. Towards a better understanding of the origins and meanings of Cycladic figurines Rıza Tuncel & Vasıf Şahoğlu New discoveries in the Cyclades 29 Sculptures from the Papaoikonomou property on Ano Kouphonisi Irini Legaki, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Eugenia Orfanidou Early Cycladic Sculpture in Perspective 30 Early Cycladic sculpture beyond the Cyclades: the Aegean context Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Marisa Marthari Index

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