New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture in the Greek & Roman World: 21st-Century Methods and Classical Antiquity

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This book highlights the diversity of current methodologies in Classical Archaeology. It includes papers about archaeology and art history, museum objects and fieldwork data, texts and material culture, archaeological theory and historiography, and technical and literary analysis, across Classical Antiquity. Contents Acknowledgements A Note to the Reader Figures and Tables Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Old and New Approaches to Ancient Material Culture Part 1 Adopting Approaches Chapter 1 Networks, Connectivity, and Material Culture Chapter 2 Big Data and Greek Archaeology: Potential, Hazards, and a Case Study from Early Greece Chapter 3 Biography of the Bull-Leaper: A ‘Minoan’ Ivory Figurine and Collecting Antiquity Part 2 Material Approaches Chapter 4 Labour Organisation and Energetics of Early Archaic Architecture in Korinthos Chapter 5 Collaborative Investigations into the Production of Athenian Pottery Chapter 6 “Everything impossible”: Admiring Glass in Ancient Rome Part 3 ‘Reading’ Material Chapter 7 The Pylos Tablets Digital Project: Prehistoric Scripts in the 21st Century Chapter 8 Objects and Things in Classical Literature Chapter 9 The Soundscape of Textile Work in the Roman World: Old Sources & New Methods Index of Ancient Sources Cited or Mentioned General Index