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  title info:
    title: Terebinth resin in antiquity
    sub title: possible uses in the Late Bronze Age Aegean region
  name:
    name part: Peachey, Claire Patricia.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xiii, 220 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
  abstract: a dry good, and is often considered to signify an "aromatic";
  abstract: Aegean region is scanty, but parallels from other regions and
  abstract: Age shipwreck site at Uluburun, Turkey. The resin was
  abstract: all products of the terebinth tree can be characterized as
  abstract: and the first to be identified by modern analytical methods.
  abstract: atlantica, but the Pistacia genus includes many resin-
  abstract: briefly surveyed. The Late Bronze Age evidence from the
  abstract: Bronze Aegean region are then explored, as this area is
  abstract: carried in an estimated 130 Canaanite amphoras, as part of a
  abstract: Confirmation requires discovery and analysis of residues.
  abstract: copper and tin, as well as other raw materials, tools,
  abstract: described, followed by a discussion of Pistacia trees and
  abstract: destination west or south of Uluburun. This is the largest
  abstract: dry goods, and all have aromatic and astringent properties.
  abstract: economically important from ancient times to the present.
  abstract: galls. Some possible uses of terebinth resin in the Late
  abstract: later periods allow the tentative conclusion that terebinth
  abstract: likely to have been one of the intended destinations of the
  abstract: oil industry and as incense in Late Bronze Age Greece is then
  abstract: Pistacia tree, were recently discovered on the Late Bronze
  abstract: producing trees, all of which have been well known and
  abstract: products of the terebinth tree, not only fruits or, as was
  abstract: resin might have been used for both of these purposes.
  abstract: resin, the yellowish, semi-fluid, aromatic resin of a
  abstract: rich and diverse cargo that included eleven metric tons of
  abstract: single deposit of terebinth resin from antiquity ever found,
  abstract: suggested after the discovery of the Uluburun cargo, resin.
  abstract: The botanical origin of the resin is thought to be Pistacia
  abstract: The evidence for the use of terebinth resin in the perfumed
  abstract: The ideogram *123 usually associated with ki-ta-no indicates
  abstract: the Linear B word ki-ta-no as the fruits of the terebinth
  abstract: The remains of an estimated one metric ton of terebinth
  abstract: The sources and characteristics of modern terebinth resin are
  abstract: their many products -- resin, fruits, leaves, bark, wood and
  abstract: tree demonstrates that the word might refer to any of the
  abstract: Uluburun ship. A discussion of the accepted translation of
  abstract: weapons and luxury goods on a ship journeying to some
  note: by Claire Patricia Peachey.
  note: "Major subject: Anthropology".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.A. Texas A&M University 1995.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-P43
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-P43
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 960711
    record change date: 20220103134446.0
    record identifier: in00001311308