caa a22 4500 388110570 CHVBK 20180307125352.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1380203800001306 doi S1380203800001306 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1380203800001306 van Wijngaarden Gert-Jan An archaeological approach to the concept of value [Elektronische Daten] Mycenaean pottery at Ugarit (Syria) [Gert-Jan van Wijngaarden] Value is one of the concepts which are of importance in the way people structure their material surroundings. According to the philosophy of Georg Simmel, value finds its origins in the tension between the desire for objects and access to them. The dimensions of desirability and accessibility may be investigated archaeologically, in order to approach the concept of value. Such a perspective is taken in this article with reference to three different classes of imported Mycenaean pottery, which have been found in the Late Bronze Age levels of the site of Ugarit at the Mediterranean coast of Syria. It is concluded that various vessel types were appreciated differently at the city. The meanings imposed on these imported objects derived from the roles they played in the local cultural context. Copyright © The Author(s) 1999 value nationallicence material culture nationallicence consumption nationallicence Mediterranean Bronze Age nationallicence Mycenaean pottery nationallicence Ugarit nationallicence Archaeological Dialogues Cambridge University Press 6/1(1999-07), 2-23 1380-2038 6:1<2 1999 6 ARD https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203800001306 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203800001306 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- van Wijngaarden Gert-Jan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archaeological Dialogues Cambridge University Press 6/1(1999-07), 2-23 1380-2038 6:1<2 1999 6 ARD CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge