The Dipylon Mistress: Social and Economic Complexity, the Gendering of Craft Production, and Early Greek Ceramic Material Culture

Murray, Sarah C.; Chorghay, Irum; MacPherson, Jennifer C.

doi:10.3764/aja.124.2.0215

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“…Would it not be convenient if she could examine these 3D models and have access to imperative forensic information without having to travel to Evansville, Indiana? Furthermore, when Hruby successfully completes her forensic anthropological investigation, the rippling effects of her findings will not only change how professionals conduct archaeological and anthropological work but will further validate new research in other subdivisions of archaeology such as S.C. Murray’s recent publication on gender studies and its reevaluation of women’s role in crafting Grecian ceramics in antiquity (Murray, Chorghay, and MacPherson 2020). Nonetheless, Hruby and Murray’s groundbreaking research hinges on the access to permanent collection objects.…”

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Photogrammetry as an Access Tool: A Case Study of Small Collections From the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science

Matheny

Hagseth²,

Schendel

2022

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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Museums throughout the United States house undocumented collections with variable access. With the technological developments over the past twenty years, digital documentation, particularly photogrammetry, has become more accessible and affordable which can bring these collections to a wider audience. This tool can help enable collaboration among researchers, institutions, and museum professionals, contribute to the stewardship of these collections, and overcome the physical and financial barriers that hinder open-access, allowing museum professionals to display their artifacts in new, engaging ways and make them more accessible to the public and other scholars. With the goal of using digital documentation to make archaeology and anthropology collections more accessible, five small artifacts from disparate collections in the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science were recorded, drawn, and modeled: a Jerash type oil lamp, a Samaritan type oil lamp, a Roman oil lamp from Meidum, Egypt, an Ottoman ceramic smoking pipe, and a ceramic sherd. This case study illustrates how small to medium size institutions can construct a photogrammetry toolkit with minimal financial and staff resources.

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confidence: 98%

Photogrammetry as an Access Tool: A Case Study of Small Collections From the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science

Matheny

Hagseth²,

Schendel

2022

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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“…This hybrid character of Aeginetan pottery production does not facilitate the discussion of potters’ gender, as household production tends to be more in the domain of females, while more specialised production is in most cases carried out by men 35 . However, a recent overview of ethnographic accounts relating to gender and pottery production (Murray, Chorghay and MacPherson 2020) emphasised two main factors that impact the involvement of males in craft activities. One is the availability of land for agriculture securing self-sufficiency, the other the opportunity of a particular craft activity to secure profit.…”

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“…Men were definitely more likely to leave their households for several months than women. In general, the mobility of women is determined by very different factors (see Cutler 2019, 86–8; Murray, Chorghay and MacPherson 2020, 230–1).…”

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Dealing With the Crisis: Mobility of Aeginetan-Tradition Potters Around 1200 Bc

Lis

Kiriatzi

Batziou³

et al. 2020

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This article investigates the final episodes of a long-lasting potting tradition that developed on Aegina during the Bronze Age. From c. 1400 bc, cooking pottery constituted the only class of that tradition that was still manufactured and exported in quantity. Detailed study of several settlement contexts from sites scattered along the Euboean and up to the Pagasetic Gulf dating to c. 1200 bc shows that pottery imported from Aegina became increasingly less available, whereas similar cooking pots produced in various non-Aeginetan fabrics appear at the same time. Macroscopic analysis of traces related to manufacture of such pots reveals that it followed the typical chaîne opératoire of the Aeginetan tradition, strongly suggesting that their appearance reflects technological transfer and, thus, could not be explained without taking mobility of potters into account. Following a comprehensive presentation of available evidence, we argue that potters trained in the context of the Aeginetan potting tradition produced cooking pottery in several locations along the Euboean Gulf and up to the modern city of Volos. By considering the socio-economic and political context of their activity, as well as the development of Aegina and its pottery production during the later stages of the Late Bronze Age, we are able to shed more light on potters’ motivations to move, as well as on the population and the time scale of this mobility phenomenon. It appears that it had two stages, characterised by itinerant activity followed by permanent relocation, and that it was relatively short-lived, as by c. 1150 bc Aeginetan-tradition potters become invisible in the archaeological record.

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Athens, Prehistoric and Early Iron Age

Damme¹

2021

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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Athens has been continuously occupied since the Neolithic period. During the Late Bronze Age, the Acropolis featured a Cyclopean fortification and numerous wealthy chamber tombs. Shortly after 1200 bce , the community suffered a major decline in population and for around a century the population declined. During the Protogeometric and Geometric periods, Athens experienced a sustained period of growth that saw a series of small settlement nuclei around the Acropolis grow and merge into a single large urban center. The same periods saw the emergence of the first public cults as well as the introduction of alphabetic script.

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The Dipylon Mistress: Social and Economic Complexity, the Gendering of Craft Production, and Early Greek Ceramic Material Culture

Cited by 6 publications

References 56 publications

Photogrammetry as an Access Tool: A Case Study of Small Collections From the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science

Photogrammetry as an Access Tool: A Case Study of Small Collections From the Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science

Dealing With the Crisis: Mobility of Aeginetan-Tradition Potters Around 1200 Bc

Athens, Prehistoric and Early Iron Age

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