TY - BOOK AU - Archaeopress AU - Di Paolo,Silvana TI - Composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East: exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature T2 - Archaeopress ancient Near Eastern archaeology SN - 9781784918545 AV - DS62 .C667 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Summertown, Oxford PB - Archaeopress Publishing Ltd KW - Antiquities KW - Social aspects KW - Middle East KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Technology and civilization KW - Material culture KW - Electronic Books N1 - Previously issued in print: 2018; Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service; 2; Silvana Di Paolo --; Introduction: New Lines of Enquiry for Composite Artefacts?; Section 1. The Planning: Materiality and Imagination; Silvana Di Paolo --; From Hidden to Visible. Degrees of Mental and Material Construction of an 'Integrated Whole' in the Ancient Near East; Alessandro Di Ludovico --; A Composite Look at the Composite Wall Decorations in the Early History of Mesopotamia; Section 2. Symbols in Action; Chikako Watanabe --; Composite Animals Representing the Property of Thunder in Mesopotamia.; Elisa Roßberger --; Shining, Contrasting, Enchanting: Composite Artefacts from the Royal Tomb of Qatna; Megan Cifarelli --; Entangled Relations over Geographical and Gendered Space: Multi-Component Personal Ornaments at Hasanlu; Section 3. Sum of Fragments, Sum of Worlds; Jean M. Evans --; Composing Figural Traditions in the Mesopotamian Temple; Frances Pinnock --; Polymaterism in Early Syrian Ebla; Anna Paule --; Near Eastern Materials, Near Eastern Techniques, Near Eastern Inspiration: Colourful Jewellery from Prehistoric, Protohistoric and Archaic Cyprus; 2; b N2 - This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East by looking at the complex relationships between environments, materials, societies and materiality UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2935335&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -