PIER-AND-RUBBLE?

Phoenician´ Building Techniques in the First Millennium BCE Levant and the Mediterranean

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Rönnberg, Maximilian Felix

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Tübingen University Presserschienen am05.06.2024PIER-AND-RUBBLE?

Ashlars and rubble masonry were often used side by side in Levantine buildings of theIron Age. This book distinguishes various such techniques and focuses on the popularpier-and-rubble technique. It deals with its prerequisites, its possible predecessorsas well as its various structural advantages and traces its spread from its emergenceat the turn of the first millennium BCE to the latest evidence, dated to its very end.An analysis of the ashlar piers´ typology and other technical characteristics indicatethat its use was not spread by specialised masons but possibly by word of mouthaccompanying various forms of exchange. The technique´s diffusion to the IberianPeninsula, but not to the central Mediterranean, confirms that it should not be taken asa Phoenician´ cultural or even ethnic marker. The pier-and-rubble technique is at bestdistantly related to the central and west Mediterranean technique called a telaio, threevariants of which may be differentiated. The origin of those can only partly be tracedto the Punic´ area and likewise they are inadequate as cultural or ethnic markers;rather than that, the study of such building techniques highlights multi-directionallinks across the Mediterranean beyond the movement of mere objects and thus addsto our picture of interregional exchange. The individual occurrences of the pier-andrubbletechnique are compiled in the book´s richly illustrated cataloguemehr

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KlappentextAshlars and rubble masonry were often used side by side in Levantine buildings of theIron Age. This book distinguishes various such techniques and focuses on the popularpier-and-rubble technique. It deals with its prerequisites, its possible predecessorsas well as its various structural advantages and traces its spread from its emergenceat the turn of the first millennium BCE to the latest evidence, dated to its very end.An analysis of the ashlar piers´ typology and other technical characteristics indicatethat its use was not spread by specialised masons but possibly by word of mouthaccompanying various forms of exchange. The technique´s diffusion to the IberianPeninsula, but not to the central Mediterranean, confirms that it should not be taken asa Phoenician´ cultural or even ethnic marker. The pier-and-rubble technique is at bestdistantly related to the central and west Mediterranean technique called a telaio, threevariants of which may be differentiated. The origin of those can only partly be tracedto the Punic´ area and likewise they are inadequate as cultural or ethnic markers;rather than that, the study of such building techniques highlights multi-directionallinks across the Mediterranean beyond the movement of mere objects and thus addsto our picture of interregional exchange. The individual occurrences of the pier-andrubbletechnique are compiled in the book´s richly illustrated catalogue

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-947251-95-7

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Tübingen University Press