The ‘Intercultural Style’ Revisited Klaas Zevenhek Figure 1: on front page: ‘Intercultural Style’ ceremonial soft stone axe head with Imdugud design from Tepe Yahya IVb period (Lamberg-Karlovsky 2001: 216) Adress: Oleanderstraat 6 1h, 1031GR Amsterdam, Netherlands Email:
[email protected] Phone number: +31642121303 The ‘Intercultural Style’ Revisited: Intercultural Interaction in South-West Asia during the Mid-Third Millennium Klaas Zevenhek Studentnumber: 0766518 Course: BA3-Thesis BA instructor: Dr. Nieuwenhuyse Specialization: Near Eastern Archaeology Universiteit Leiden, Faculteit der Archeologie Amsterdam, 14 june 2013, Final version The ‘Intercultural Style’ Revisited Table of Contents 1. Introduction p. 1 1.1 Interpreting the ‘Intercultural Style’ p. 1 1.2 Research questions p. 3 1.3 About this thesis p. 4 2. Modeling intercultural interaction p. 5 2.1 World Systems Theory and the Acculturation Model p. 5 2.2 Towards a new model of interregional interaction and exchange p. 7 3. Defining the ‘Intercultural Style’ p. 9 3.1 Periodization p. 9 3.2 The ‘Intercultural Style’ corpus p. 10 3.3 The decorations of the ‘Intercultural Style p. 18 4. The intercultural context of stone vessel circulation p. 22 4.1 Southern Mesopotamia p. 22 4.2 Susa, Khuzestan and the Iranian highlands p. 23 4.3 The Indus valley p. 25 4.4 Patterns of trade during the mid-third millennium p. 26 5. Value and exchange p. 29 5.1 The value of objects p. 29 5.2 Mode of exchange p. 30 5.3 The production and distribution of ‘Intercultural Style’ vessels p. 30 5.4 The exchange and value of ‘Intercultural Style’ vessels p.