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‘The Chicken or the Egg?’ Interregional Contacts Viewed Through a Technological Lens at L ate B ronze A ge T iryns, G reece
Author(s) -
Brysbaert Ann
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/ojoa.12013
Subject(s) - craft , context (archaeology) , order (exchange) , geography , archaeology , business , finance
Summary This paper reviews the environmental circumstances of the ostrich and its eggs, in order to provide a geographical overview of past human usage and modification of ostrich eggshells in the A egean and, more specifically, at T iryns, while placing this craft in its contemporary context in the L ate B ronze A ge M editerranean basin. This ostrich shell evidence from T iryns is contextualized and analysed through the approach of the chaîne opératoire in order to understand the material in the framework of T iryns' L ate B ronze A ge craft activities, and within the L ate B ronze A ge A egean network of contacts that brought this material to T iryns in the first place.