Harrell, Kate

Thravsma : contextualising the intentional destruction of objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus / edited by Jan Driessen; Kate Harrel. - [Louvain-la-Neuve]: Presses universitaires de Louvain, [2015]. - 196 p : illus (chiefly color),diagrams, maps ; 30 cm. - 9 .

Papers in English and one in French.

Includes bibliographical refernces.

How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and the eastern coast of Italy between 4000-750 BC, archaeologists consider the custom of ritually killing objects as a normative, if inconsistent practice. Yet as

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Cultural property--Destruction and pillage--Congresses--Greece
Cultural property--Destruction and pillage--Congresses--Cyprus
Bronze age--Congresses--Greece
Bronze age--Congresses--Cyprus


Cyprus--Antiquities--Congresses
Greece--Antiquities--Congresses