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Sabbatical Ilse Schoep: Sealing and Writing Practices on Crete in the Bronze Age: A Social Perspective

The Sabbath period is devoted to the development of a monograph. Sealing and Writing Practices on Crete in the Bronze Age: A Social Perspective will consist of a newer, social approach to sealing and writing practices in writing with an emphasis on examining the social context in which they occur and the role they played in social reproduction and transformation. To explore the social importance of these practices, approaches will be drawn from the anthropology of technology, in particular the chaîne opératoire of sealing and writing, praxeology and communities of practice, but also the contextual relationship with other types of material culture, both immobile. (architecture, spaces) and mobile (vases, frescoes, metal objects) are investigated. Iconographic analysis of the depictions on the seal stones responsible for the seals and their correlations with depictions on stone vases and frescoes will play a crucial role in this.

Date:1 Jan 2021 →  30 Jun 2021
Keywords:Crete, Bronze Age, sealing and writing
Disciplines:Social archaeology, Classical archaeology