Indus-Style Stone Beads in the Late Third-Millennium BCE Southern Levant: The Role of Trade and Curation in the Distribution of High-Value Ornaments
This article discusses how identification of stylistic, morphometric, mineralogical, and technological characteristics of carnelian stone beads can provide major insights into EB IV/MB I interregional networks and social differentiation. Based on unique drilling techniques, stylistic shapes, morphom...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2023, Volume: 86, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-15 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pearl
/ Gem
/ Ornamentstein
/ Israel (Antiquity)
/ India
/ Pakistan
/ Bronze Age
/ Levant
/ Indus
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
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| Summary: | This article discusses how identification of stylistic, morphometric, mineralogical, and technological characteristics of carnelian stone beads can provide major insights into EB IV/MB I interregional networks and social differentiation. Based on unique drilling techniques, stylistic shapes, morphometric proportions, and mineralogical characteristics, fifty-four carnelian beads found in Israel/Palestine have been identified as crafted in a manner ultimately diagnostic of the Indus tradition of modern Pakistan and western India. Fifty Indus-style beads in the EB IV/MB I probably reflect increased socio-cultural links to the northern Levant and Mesopotamia during this period, while four beads from later contexts represent long-term curation of valuable ornaments. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/723461 |