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Book Synopsis Bronzeworking on Late Minoan Crete by : Lena Hakulin
Download or read book Bronzeworking on Late Minoan Crete written by Lena Hakulin and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronzeworking was an important industry in the late Bronze Age Aegean and this thesis draws on a large database of material related to Late Minoan bronze objects, raw materials, evidence for workshops and so on.
Download or read book Minoans written by Rodney Castleden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete. Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant, graceful and sophisticated, these nature lovers lived in harmony with their neighbours, while their fleets ruled the seas around Crete. This, at least, is the popular view of the Minoans. But how far does the later work of archaeologists in Crete support this view? Drawing on his experience of being actively involved in research on landscapes processes and prehistory for the last twenty years, Castleden writes clearly and accessibly to provide a text essential to the study of this fascinating subject.
Download or read book The Minoans written by Sinclair Hood and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BCE to the 15th century BCE. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Arthur Evans."--Wikipedia.
Book Synopsis Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete by : Emily S. K. Anderson
Download or read book Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete written by Emily S. K. Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Minoan Crete is re-envisioned as a space of social innovation, in which change occurred through people and objects.
Book Synopsis The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age by : Edith Hall Dohan
Download or read book The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age written by Edith Hall Dohan and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crete Reclaimed by : Susan Evasdaughter
Download or read book Crete Reclaimed written by Susan Evasdaughter and published by Heart of Albion. This book was released on 1996 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between about 3000 and 1400 BC one of the world's great civilizations flourished on the island of Crete. The distinctive characteristic of this civilization was that it was dominated by an elite of women.
Book Synopsis Negotiating Island Identities by : Ina Berg
Download or read book Negotiating Island Identities written by Ina Berg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Island Identities explores the history of interaction between Crete and the Cycladic islands from the late Middle to Late Bronze II periods when Minoan influence was at its peak. Based on a thorough investigation of pottery assemblages from key sites, the book advocates a rethink of established acculturation scenarios (such as "Minoanisation") in relation to the Cycladic islands. Openness or closure towards outside influences was not predetermined by cultural, geographical or ecological variables but was socially constructed. Island communities could consciously fashion their worlds and make choices about the nature and degree of interaction with their neighbours.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age by : J. Lesley Fitton
Download or read book The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Age written by J. Lesley Fitton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Greeks sought their own origins in legends of gods and heroes, but it was not until the 19th century, with the emergence of the discipline of archaeology, that the evidence of material culture could be used to form an image of the earliest societies in Greek lands. Only in the last 125 years have the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean peoples been brought to light, and an elaborate framework of dates, styles, periods and events have been constructed to enable us to understand the Aegean Bronze Age. Where have these facts come from, and how accurately do they actually describe a remote period from which there is no written history?
Book Synopsis Minoan Realities by : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Download or read book Minoan Realities written by Diamantis Panagiotopoulos and published by Presses univ. de Louvain. This book was released on 2012 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, 2009 at the University of Heidelberg. The papers presented in the workshop are collected in the present volume. They provide different approaches to this complex topic and are aimed at a better understanding of the formation, role, and perception of images and architecture in a very dynamic social landscape. The Cretan Neopalatial period saw a rapid increase in the number of palaces and 'villas', characterized by elaborate designs and idiosyncratic architectural patterns which were themselves in turn generated by a pressing desire for a distinctive social and performative environment.
Book Synopsis Performance, Power and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age by : Senta C. German
Download or read book Performance, Power and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age written by Senta C. German and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we to believe that Late Minoan Crete was over-run with dancers and bull leapers? As Senta German shows, dancing and bull-leaping were the most prevalent themes of Late Bronze Age glyptic art although, aside from their demonstration of a social and perhaps symbolic activity, they also had a much deeper function in Late Minoan society.
Book Synopsis The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age by : Edith Hall Dohan
Download or read book The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age written by Edith Hall Dohan and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aegean Bronze Age Art by : Carl Knappett
Download or read book Aegean Bronze Age Art written by Carl Knappett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to interpret its meaning. But for earlier periods without texts, such as in the Bronze Age Aegean, this method is redundant. Using cutting-edge theory from art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Carl Knappett offers a new approach to this problem by identifying distinct actions - such as modelling, combining, and imprinting - whereby meaning is scaffolded through the materials themselves. By showing how these actions work in the context of specific bodies of material, Knappett brings to life the fascinating art of Minoan Crete and surrounding areas in novel ways. With a special focus on how creativity manifests itself in these processes, he makes an argument for not just how creativity emerges through specific material engagements but also why creativity might be especially valued at particular moments.
Book Synopsis Crafting Minoanisation by : Joanne Elizabeth Cutler
Download or read book Crafting Minoanisation written by Joanne Elizabeth Cutler and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, but the nature and degree of Cretan influence, and the process/processes by which it was spread and adopted, have been widely debated. This new study addresses the question of ‘Minoanisation’ through a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving technology. By the early Late Bronze Age, Cretan-style discoid loom weights had appeared at a number of settlements across the southern Aegean. In most cases, this represents not only the adoption of a particular type of loom weight, but also the introduction of a new weaving technology: the use of the warp-weighted loom. The evidence for, and the implications of, the adoption of this new technology is examined. Drawing upon recent advances in textile experimental archaeology, the types of textiles that are likely to have been produced at a range of sites both on Crete itself and in the wider southern Aegean are discussed, and the likely nature and scale of textile production at the various settlements is assessed. A consideration of the evidence for the timing and extent of the adoption of Cretan weaving technology in the light of additional evidence for the adoption of other Cretan technologies is used to gain insight into the potential social and economic strategies engaged in by various groups across the southern Aegean, as well as the motivations that may have driven the adoption and adaptation of Cretan cultural traits and accompanying behaviors. By examining how technological skills and techniques are learned and considering possible mechanisms for the transmission of such technical knowledge and know-how, new perspectives can be proposed concerning the processes through which Cretan techniques were taken up and imitated abroad.
Book Synopsis The Cyclades in the Bronze Age by : R. L. N. Barber
Download or read book The Cyclades in the Bronze Age written by R. L. N. Barber and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Settlements, Dwellings and Painted Pottery by : Jane Fox Lloyd
Download or read book Settlements, Dwellings and Painted Pottery written by Jane Fox Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bronze Age Begins by : Philip P. Betancourt
Download or read book The Bronze Age Begins written by Philip P. Betancourt and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological, social, and religious advancements we call the Early Bronze Age. The arguments are two-fold: a detailed explanation of the ceramics we call Early Minoan I and the differences that set it apart from its predecessors, and an explanation of how these new and highly superior containers changed the storage, transport, and accumulation of a new form of wealth consisting primarily of processed agricultural and animal products like wine, olive oil, and various foods preserved in wine, vinegar, honey, and other liquids. The increased stability and security provided by an improved ability to store food from one year to the next would have a profound effect on the society.
Book Synopsis Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete by : Joan M. Cichon
Download or read book Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete written by Joan M. Cichon and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.
