04926nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001200153072001500165072002300180072001400203245018500217250001800402264006900420300006600489336002600555337002600581338003600607347002400643490005100667505139600718520175302114650001703867650002403884650002003908650001803928650001703946650003503963650001703998700008804015700007604103710003404179773002604213776003604239776003604275776003604311830005104347856004604398978-3-031-73643-8DE-He21320251030114914.0cr nn 008mamaa250101s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317364387 a10.1007/978-3-031-73643-82doi 4aCC1-960 7aHD2bicssc 7aSOC0030002bisacsh 7aNK2thema10aHuman and Aquatic Beings: Interactions in and beyond the Eastern Mediterranean (3rd—1st Millennia BCE)h[electronic resource] /cedited by Christina Tsouparopoulou, Lærke Recht.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXVII, 153 p. 79 illus., 66 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aThemes in Contemporary Archaeology,x2730-745X0 aChapter 1. Creatures of the water and their impact on human lives (Recht and Tsouparopoulou) -- Chapter 2. Isotopes and fish bones in the Bronze Age Aegean: Expanding our understanding of aquatic diets (Mylona and Allshouse) -- Chapter 3. Fishing gear and fish remains from Vergina: A case of inland fishing in Macedonia (Stamatopoulou) -- Chapter 4. The marine aspect of the Temple Repositories in the Palace of Knossos (Eleftheriou, et al) -- Chapter 5. “ἐς πόντον ἱχθυόεντα”: Marine creatures in Aegean and Cypriot pictorial pottery at the end of the Late Bronze Age (Lekka) -- Chapter 6. Underrepresented riches from the sea (Yamasaki) -- Chapter 7. Exploring fishing in Cyprus from the Neolithic to the Early Christian periods (Michael) -- Chapter 8. Cockles and carps: Human-aquatic being relations in the mid to late third millennium BCE tombs of Ur (Recht and Tsouparopoulou) -- Chapter 9. Clamour from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf: Revised dating and distribution patterns of engraved Tridacna squamosa (Schlegel) -- Chapter 10. Correlations between stones and iconography: Fish-cloaked figures in ancient Mesopotamia (Ftaimi) -- Chapter 11. Shells in jewellery from Middle Kingdom Egypt (Patrevita) -- Chapter 12. Shell discs from first millennium BCE Iran (Naseri et al) -- Chapter 13. Concluding remarks: Creatures of the water (Greenfield).  aThis volume examines the role of fish and molluscs in everyday life as well as in terms of their impact on social structures, and as part of ideological and symbolic expression. Given the prevalence of anddependence on water in various forms in all regions of the Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt and Western Asia, it is no wonder that fish and other aquatic species made an impact on human lives. Yet this topic remains rather understudied. Until recently, ongoing projects in marine and freshwater species and their interaction with humans and the environment either focus on the European marine ecosystem or on themes other than the social interactions of humans and aquatic species. The chapters in this volume explore questions related to fishing practices and technologies, social status, human-fish/mollusc relations (including potential over-exploitation), and fish/molluscs in ritual practices (e.g. as temple offerings, festival consumption, burial offerings), and ideology and religion (e.g. associated with supernatural beings or sacred space, as hybrid creatures, and as represented in luxury goods). The volume also examines aquatic species as a nonalimentary resource, for example as jewellery, inlays, dyeing and medicinal purposes. The material under investigation includes faunal remains (worked and unworked), fishing gear and related tools, iconography and written sources. Many chapters also integrate multiple lines of evidence, ranging from stylistic, contextual and iconographic analyses to zooarchaeological investigations. This volume is relevant to archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, biologists and anyone interested in human-animal relations and/or the archaeology of the early Eastern Mediterranean and surrounding regions. 0aArchaeology. 0aFreshwater ecology. 0aMarine ecology. 0aArtxHistory.14aArchaeology.24aFreshwater and Marine Ecology.24aArt History.1 aTsouparopoulou, Christina.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt1 aRecht, Lærke.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303173642108iPrinted edition:z978303173644508iPrinted edition:z9783031736452 0aThemes in Contemporary Archaeology,x2730-745X40uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73643-8