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The Sacred Landscape at Leska and Minoan Kythera

Author : Mercourios Georgiadis
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034426
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Landscape at Leska and Minoan Kythera written by Mercourios Georgiadis and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presentes the results of the survey and excavation of a second peak sanctuary on Minoan Kythera at Leska. An introduction to the archaeological background of the island is provided, as well as a discussion on peak sanctuaries there and in Minoan Crete. The discovery of Leska and the research conducted there are described, and a discussion of the diachronic use of the summit is presented, following analyses of the material remains (including pottery, figurines, stone vessels, stone tools, and jewelry). Detailed discussions of the active role and significance of the landscape and the cultic practices allow an in-depth analysis of the links between society and cult, and also of the ways in which the landscape and immediate surroundings at Leska were sacralised in the Middle Minoan IB to Late Minoan IB phase. The broader analysis of the sacred landscape on Kythera provides a unique ropportunity to asess Aegean religion during the Minoan period outside Crete.

Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes

Author : Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438489897
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes by : Arnau Garcia-Molsosa

Download or read book Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes written by Arnau Garcia-Molsosa and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during prehistorical and historical times, and that history defines mountain landscapes as we know them today. Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes contains twenty contributions by forty-one specialists currently researching mountain areas in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The different case studies address the subject diachronically, ranging from prehistory to modern times, and employ a variety of methodological strategies, including archaeological surveys and excavation, paleoenvironmental studies, and historical and ethnographical research. This volume demonstrates how multidisciplinary archaeological fieldwork is radically changing our vision of mountain landscapes. Viewing mountain landscapes as archaeological documents contributes to our understanding of the history of mountain environments and offers new archaeological datasets to use in the interpretation of human societies. Taken together, the essays collected here offer a comprehensive view of current research and suggest new directions for future study.

Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity

Author : Ralph Haussler
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253284
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity written by Ralph Haussler and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.

Peak Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves in Minoan Crete

Author : Donald W. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peak Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves in Minoan Crete written by Donald W. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kythera - Excavations and Studies

Author : John Nicolas Coldstream
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571096831
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Kythera - Excavations and Studies written by John Nicolas Coldstream and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete

Author : Vili Apostolakou
Publisher : Prehistory Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9781931534307
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete by : Vili Apostolakou

Download or read book Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete written by Vili Apostolakou and published by Prehistory Monographs. This book was released on 2021 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices-revealing a trade network of cooking pots and other clay vessels and their contents"--

Exploring a Terra Incognita on Crete

Author : Konstantinos Chalikias
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034221
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring a Terra Incognita on Crete by : Konstantinos Chalikias

Download or read book Exploring a Terra Incognita on Crete written by Konstantinos Chalikias and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together for the first time scholars working on the Bronze Age settlement patterns and material culture of the southern Ierapetra Isthmus, a region that actively participated in the coastal and maritime trade networks of East Crete. During the past few decades, while various archaeological projects focused on the northern isthmus, the Ierapetra area remained largely neglected and unknown, a terra incognita. Yet, new excavations at Gaidourophas, Anatoli Stavromenos, Chryssi Island, Bramiana, and the ongoing research at the site of Myrtos Pyrgos are showing that the coastal area of Ierapetra was a vibrant and thriving settlement landscape during the Bronze Age. Far from being simply on the periphery of the major Minoan centers, the southern Ierapetra Isthmus played important roles in the cultural dynamics of Crete. Aiming to be the first building block in the development of an archaeological understanding of the region of the southern Ierapetra Isthmus, this book presents the status of the discipline and indicates future research trajectories.

Keos XI

Author : Lyvia Morgan
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034213
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Keos XI written by Lyvia Morgan and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconography of Late Bronze Age wall paintings is presented in their social context within the Cycladic island of Kea and the wider Aegean world. Town, land, and seascapes illustrate the community of this harbor. This book is lavishly illustrated with many color drawings, visualizations, and photographs.

The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete

Author : Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034345
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete by : Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder

Download or read book The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete written by Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC is described. The cargo includes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit. The transport boat provides interesting information on a society that revolved around seafaring.

Death in Mycenaean Lakonia (17th to 11th c. BC)

Author : Chrysanthi Gallou
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789252431
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Death in Mycenaean Lakonia (17th to 11th c. BC) written by Chrysanthi Gallou and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day. The book will discuss and reconstruct the emergence and development of the Mycenaean mortuary tradition in Lakonia by examining the landscape of death, the burial architecture, the funerary and post-funerary customs and rituals, and offering patterns over a longue durée. The author proposes patterns of continuity from the Middle Bronze Age (even the Early Bronze Age in terms of burial architecture) to the LBA and, equally important, from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age,and reconstructs diachronic processes of invention of tradition and identity in Mycenaean communities, on the basis of tomb types and their material culture. The text highlights the social, political and economic history of Late Bronze Age Lakonia from the evolution of the Mycenaean civilisation and the establishment of palatial administration in the Spartan vale, to the demise of Mycenaean culture and the turbulent post–collapse centuries, as reflected by the burial offerings. The book also brings to publication the chamber tombs at Epidavros Limera that remained largely unpublished since their excavation in the 1930s and 1950s. Epidavros Limera was one of the most important prehistoric coastal sites in prehistoric southern Greece (early 3rd–late 4th millennium BC), and one of the main harbour towns of the Mycenaean administrative centres of central Lakonia. It is one of very few Mycenaean sites that flourished uninterruptedly from the emergence of the Mycenaean civilisation until after the collapse of the palatial administration and into the transition to the Early Iron Age. The present study of the funerary architecture and of the pottery from the tombs suggests that the site was responsible for the introduction of the chamber tomb type on the Greek mainland in the latest phase of the Middle Bronze Age (definitely no later than the transitional Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age period), and not in the early phase of the Late Bronze Age (Late Helladic I) as previously assumed.

Minoan Archaeology

Author : Sarah Cappel
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2875583948
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Minoan Archaeology written by Sarah Cappel and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100 years ago Sir Arthur Evans' spade made the first cut into the earth above the now well-known Palace at Knossos. His research saw the birth of a new discipline: Minoan Archaeology. The present volume aim to outline current trends and prospects of this scientific field.

Petras, Siteia II

Author : INSTAP Academic Press
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 162303437X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Petras, Siteia II written by INSTAP Academic Press and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the second of two that represent the final publication of Sector I of the Prepalatial to Postpalatial Minoan urban settlement and palace of Petras, Siteia, located in eastern Crete. It presents in detail the Late Bronze Age pottery recovered during the excavations conducted there from 1985 to 2000. The Neopalatial and Late Minoan II to III pottery from Houses I.1 and I.2 is analyzed and discussed with a focus on the main Neopalatial period of the Petras settlement and its Postpalatial reoccupation. The petrographic analysis of a select group of pottery from House I.1 is also detailed, allowing for a discussion of patterns in production and consumption over time.

Petsophas

Author : Bogdan Rutkowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Petsophas written by Bogdan Rutkowski and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Goltepe Excavations

Author : Kutlu Aslihan Yener
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034280
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Goltepe Excavations written by Kutlu Aslihan Yener and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents over fifteen years (1981-1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners' village, Goltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surveys, test pit operations, profile trenches and excavation finds demonstrate that processing of cassiterite-rich ore was the primary function of activities at Goltepe. The variety and density of tin-rich vitrified crucibles as well as ground, powdered tin-rich ore from excavated contexts were only some of the several lines of evidence. Other finds indicated that the site was profoundly associated with metal production. Weighty evidence came in the numbers of multifaceted molds, ingots and tin bronze artifacts. Furthermore, 50,000 ground stone tools for ore dressing and vitrified material grinding were estimated on the site surface, while 5,000 came from excavated contexts. Early Bronze Age Goltepe and Kestel Mine represent the as-yet unique example of the highland production model, that is, the industrial tier 1 of the extraction and processing of raw materials for the production of metal artifacts. This model entails the mining and smelting operations in the metalliferously rich ore deposits and forests, usually located in the mountains, in this case, the central Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey.

Aegean Prehistory

Author : Tracey Cullen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aegean Prehistory written by Tracey Cullen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aegean prehistory has developed over the 20th century into a distinctive and vibrant area of archaeological research. The past few decades, in particular, have seen a dramatic reorientation and expansion of goals and methods as well as a flood of new fieldwork in the Agean. Keeping abreast of these new developments has become a daunting task. Aegean Prehistory: A Review contains detailed syntheses of research, originally published in the American Journal of Archaeology and newly updated here. The volume conveys the diversity and richness of current approaches to the discipline of Aegean prehistory whilst also marshalling an enormous amount of information pertaining to field projects, museum studies, analyses of materials and texts, and supporting theories of interpretation. An introduction by Tracey Cullen places the review articles in historical perspective, tracing the evolution of Aegean prehistory from the 19th century to the present. The author also considers the current status of the discipline--its relationships with classical archaeology and anthropology, and the manner in which it is shaped by various sociopolitical forces. Aegean Prehistory: A Review is a powerful research tool for the exploration of Aegean themes. With its expansive and detailed coverage, the book constitutes essential reading for professionals and students of Aegean prehistory. It will also be of great interest to all who wish to learn more about intellectual trends and current discoveries in this part of the Mediterranean. Perhaps most important, Aegean Prehistory: A Review provides a solid foundation upon which Aegean archaeology can build as it continues to thrive in the coming years.

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

Author : Apostolos Sarris
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789201462
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece by : Apostolos Sarris

Download or read book Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece written by Apostolos Sarris and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past. This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047441656
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the visual and textual evidence, this volume concentrates on the artistic, intellectual, religious, and socio-political importance of divine images as media of communication in the polytheistic cosmos of ancient Greece and Rome.