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Author Rich, Sara A., author.

Title Cedar forests, cedar ships : allure, lore, and metaphor in the Mediterranean Near East / Sara A. Rich.

Publication Info. Oxford : Archaeopress, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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Note Previously issued in print: 2016.
Summary It is commonly recognized that the Cedars of Lebanon were prized in the ancient world, but how can the complex archaeological role of the Cedrus genus be articulated in terms that go beyond its interactions with humans alone?
Audience Specialized.
Note Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
Contents INTRODUCTION: An Object-Oriented Archaeology (or, Redefining the 'Archaeological Object'); PART I: Forests, Trees & Timber -- The Realities and Relations of Wood; CHAPTER 1: The Enduring Qualities and the First Relations; CHAPTER 2: The Seductive Forests; CHAPTER 3: The Allure and the Distortion; PART II: Ships, Shipbuilding, and Seafaring -- The Potency of Wood on Water; Chapter 4: Ships and Transformation; CHAPTER 5: Ship Construction, Myth Construction; CHAPTER 6: The Ontology of Obsolescence; EPILOGUE: Dark Ecology; or On Pins & Needles; Bibliography.
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Subject Cedar of Lebanon.
Cedar of Lebanon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Archaeopress, publisher.
Other Form: Print version: 9781784913656
ISBN 1784913669
9781784913663 (electronic book)