Creativity in the Bronze Age: Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production

Lise Bender Jørgensen; Joanna Sofaer; Marie Louise Stig Sørensen

doi:10.1017/9781108344357

Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.

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Creativity in the Bronze Age
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Creativity in the Bronze Age - Title page
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Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production
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Contents
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Figures
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Tables
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Contributors
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Preface and Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Part I - Raw Materials: Creativity and the Properties of Materials
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Introduction
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- By Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jørgensen
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Fibres for Bronze Age Textiles
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- By Lise Bender Jørgensen, Antoinette Rast-Eicher
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Making Metals: From Copper to Bronze
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- By Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Grahame Appleby
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Potter’s Clay
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Creativity and Materials: Reflections
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Part II - Production Practices
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Introduction
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Textile Production
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- By Lise Bender Jørgensen
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The Production of Metal Objects
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The Production of Pottery
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Case Studies
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1 - Creativity and Spindle Whorls at the Bronze Age Tell of Százhalombatta-Földvár, Hungary
pp 91-98
- By Sophie Bergerbrant
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2 - Forming Metal: The Development of Moulds
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- By Grahame Appleby, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
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3 - Variability in the Chaîne Opératoire: The Case of Belegiš Cremation Vessels
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- By Sarah Coxon
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4 - The Production of Scandinavian Bronze Age Textiles: Skill and Creativity
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- By Sølvi Helene Fossøy
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5 - Twisting the Bronze Age
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- By Lise Bender Jørgensen
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Production Practices: Reflections
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- By Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Lise Bender Jørgensen, Joanna Sofaer
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Part III - Effects: Shape, Motifs, Pattern, Colour, and Texture
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Introduction
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- By Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender Jørgensen, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
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Case Studies
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