eBOOKS: The Value of Colour. Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World

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> From Shiyanthi Thavapalan <[email protected]>:
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> The Value of Colour. Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World
> Berlin Studies of the Ancient World, Volume 70
> Editors: Shiyanthi Thavapalan and David A. Warburton
> Pages: 341
> ISBN: 978-3-9820670-1-8
> Ebook available for download at:
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> In the Value of Colour, an interdisciplinary group of scholars come
> together to examine economically relevant questions concerning a
> narrow slice of social and cognitive history: namely, colours.
> Traditionally, the study of colours has been approached from a
> cultural or linguistic perspective. The essays collected in this
> volume highlight the fact that in earliest human history, colours
> appear in contexts of prestige (value) and commerce. Acquisition,
> production, labour, circulation and consumption are among the issues
> discussed by individual authors to show how colourful materials
> acquired meaning in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds.
> Spanning the Palaeolithic to the early Imperial Rome, the
> contributions also demonstrate the many questions asked and approaches
> used by historians in the growing field of Colour Studies.
> 
> Introduction:
> By: David A. Warburton
> 
> Colours as Viewed by the Ancient Egyptians and the Explanation of this
> View as Seen by Academics Studying Colour
> By: Wolfgang Schenkel
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> Colour in the Palaeolithic
> By: Theodora Moutsiou
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> The Colour of Ornaments in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of the
> Levant: Their Symbolic Meaning and Economic Value
> By: Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
> 
> Significance of Colour in the Second Millennium BC.: The Perception
> and Use of Glass at the Centre and Periphery of the Hittites
> By: Gonca Dardeniz
> 
> Manufacturing Colourful Glass Objects in New Kingdom Egypt: A Spatial
> and Statistical Analysis
> By: Anna K. Hodgkinson
> 
> Stones from the Mountain, Stones from the Kiln: Colour in the Glass
> Texts from Ancient Mesopotamia
> By: Shiyanthi Thavapalan
> 
> The Economic Role of Coloured Textiles in Babylonia (1st Millennium BC)
> By: Louise Quillien
> 
> The Composition of the Colour Palette and the Socio-Economic Role of
> Pigments used in Egyptian Painting
> By: Ingrid Blom-Böer (with David A. Warburton)
> 
> The Language of Colour and Material: Were Architectural Façades in the
> Aegean Bronze Age Brightly Painted?
> By: Fritz Blakolmer
> 
> Colour me Greek: Poetic Value, Economy of Language and the Chromatic
> Vocabulary in Roman Elegy
> By: Lydia Pelletier-Michaud
> 
> Epilogue: Ancient Colours. Perspectives and Methodological Challenges
> By: Cecilie Brøns
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> Shiyanthi Thavapalan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Assyriology
> and Archaeology at Brown University (2019–2020). Her research is at
> the crossroads of philology and the history of technology and the
> senses. She has published several studies on the semantics of Akkadian
> colour terminology, ancient chemical recipes and the history of
> Mesopotamian craft techniques and technologies.
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> David A. Warburton is currently teaching the ancient Egyptian language
> at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations in Northeast
> China. Within Topoi he was responsible for the Key Topic Economy from
> 2013 to 2017. His research interests are in understanding the
> emergence and development of economics, warfare, religion, cognition,
> architecture, science, and methodological issues such as mastering
> chronology, archaeological stratigraphy and language. The world of
> ancient colours is an encounter of mind and matter.