The Materiality of Early Bronze Age Homemaking at Numayra, Jordan, 2850-2550 BCE
5:00pm - 6:00pm /
Thursday 28th April 2022
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
- Jo-Hannah Plug
- Admission: Free
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Topic: Meredith Chesson - The Materiality of Early Bronze Age Homemaking at Numayra, Jordan, 2850-2550 BCE
Abstract:
Numayra’s excellent preservation offers a unique opportunity to explore how people crafted homes from their houses in some of the region’s earliest fortified towns. Houses provide more than shelter from the elements; people transform them into socially conditioned places, into Homes, that transcend space, time, and status. Homes are a dynamic type of material culture that people create for themselves in a series of decisions involving the availability and desirability of construction and decorative materials (Glassie 1975, 2001). Throughout time and across space, people have decided how, where, and what to use to build and equip their homes, and these intricate decisions were (and continue to be) influenced by economic, political, religious and social networks, beliefs, worldviews, and differential access to local and non-local resources. Approaching EB III Numayra (c. 2800-2500 BC cal) through the lens of homemaking and materiality integrates the more comfortable archaeological analyses of built environment, craft production, consumption, storage, activity areas, and landscapes, with an appreciation for the materiality of daily practices in early fortified communities of the third millennium BCE.
This event will be held via Zoom, please contact Jo-Hannah Plug for the Zoom link.
Abstract:
Numayra’s excellent preservation offers a unique opportunity to explore how people crafted homes from their houses in some of the region’s earliest fortified towns. Houses provide more than shelter from the elements; people transform them into socially conditioned places, into Homes, that transcend space, time, and status. Homes are a dynamic type of material culture that people create for themselves in a series of decisions involving the availability and desirability of construction and decorative materials (Glassie 1975, 2001). Throughout time and across space, people have decided how, where, and what to use to build and equip their homes, and these intricate decisions were (and continue to be) influenced by economic, political, religious and social networks, beliefs, worldviews, and differential access to local and non-local resources. Approaching EB III Numayra (c. 2800-2500 BC cal) through the lens of homemaking and materiality integrates the more comfortable archaeological analyses of built environment, craft production, consumption, storage, activity areas, and landscapes, with an appreciation for the materiality of daily practices in early fortified communities of the third millennium BCE.
This event will be held via Zoom, please contact Jo-Hannah Plug for the Zoom link.