Retrospective: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Analytical Study of Aegean Transport Stirrup Jars · SU Scholar

Title: Retrospective: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Analytical Study of Aegean Transport Stirrup Jars
Creator: Haskell, Halford W.
Date: 2018-11-08
Date Available: 2018-11-08
Date Issued: 2015
uri: http://collections.southwestern.edu/s/suscholar/item/373
Abstract: Transport stirrup jars, used for the movement of liquid commodities in bulk, lend themselves to interdisciplinary analytical approaches. An appreciation of early work, bleeding edge at the time, reminds us of how quickly and radically methodologies change. Early work on transport stirrup jars concentrated on chemical approaches, which often yielded ambivalent results. More recent, full integration of typological, chemical, petrographic, and epigraphic analyses enables a far more secure understanding of production technologies and movements, although already these results are undergoing reassessment. Crete was extremely active in the transport stirrup jar industry in the Aegean Late Bronze III period, exporting jars primarily to Greek mainland sites but also to various sites stretching from Sardinia to the Levant.
Language: English
Publisher: unpublished (except via academia.edu)
Subject: aegean, bronze age, crete, greece, transport stirrup jar
Type: Article