{"product_id":"wider-island-of-pelops","title":"Wider Island Of Pelops","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Wider Island of Pelops\u003c\/i\u003e explores the myriad ways in which pottery was created, utilized, and experienced in the prehistoric Aegean, across a period of more than 4000 years between the Middle Neolithic and the Early Iron Age transition. Pottery is capable both of creating bonds and creating barriers. It serves as a sociocultural call and response, marking similarity and difference, collectivism and individualism, knowledge, and the absence of knowledge. Contextually-bound, it embodies identities, memories and multiple histories. It reflects choice and reinforces orthodoxy; a product of change, and a driver of it, that both creates and curates understanding of the world. Necessity and commodity, at times anachronistic, and at others, avant-garde, it is subversive and slavish, innovative and derivative; visible always, and never without value.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe seventeen papers collected here provide a diachronic perspective on the value of pottery in marking and mediating cross-scale sociocultural discourse; in framing and facilitating the transmission of knowledge and meaning; in driving economies; in the preservation of memory, in the practice of cult; and, in more recent times, as a vector in the dialogue of imperialism: at once introducing key themes in the study of Aegean pottery, and providing a snapshot of recent archaeological work in Greece.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308130017662,"sku":"NW9781803273280","price":46.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781803273280.jpg?v=1778578180","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/wider-island-of-pelops","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}