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Author :Florence Gaignerot-Driessen Publisher :Presses universitaires de Louvain ISBN 13 :287558328X Total Pages :184 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (755 download)
Book Synopsis Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation by : Florence Gaignerot-Driessen
Download or read book Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation written by Florence Gaignerot-Driessen and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting a number of lectures given at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2010-2012 in the frame of a seminar entitled La naissance des cités crétoises. Eight Cretan sites (Axos, Phaistos, Prinias, Karphi, Dreros, Azoria, Praisos, and Itanos), recently excavated or re-excavated, are considered in their regional and historical context in order to explore the origin and early development of the Greek city-state on the island.
Book Synopsis Crete Beyond the Palaces by : Leslie Preston Day
Download or read book Crete Beyond the Palaces written by Leslie Preston Day and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents papers from the conference "Crete 2000: A Centennial Celebration of American Archaeological Work on Crete (1900-2000)," held in Athens from July 10-12, 2000. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Study Center for East Crete organized the conference. Scholars participating in the American and joint Greek-American on Crete or studying material from these excavations were invited to present papers at the conference. The volume is divided into the following sections: Trade, Society and Religion, Chronology and History, Landscape and Survey, and Technology and Production.
Book Synopsis Cultural Practices and Material Culture in Archaic and Classical Crete by : Oliver Pilz
Download or read book Cultural Practices and Material Culture in Archaic and Classical Crete written by Oliver Pilz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obwohl die Insel Kreta reiches Material zur Untersuchung von Fragen bietet, die im Mittelpunkt der Forschungen zur gesellschaftlichen Organisation im frühen Griechenland stehen, liegt die Beschäftigung mit der archaischen und klassischen Periode Kretas seit jeher am Rand des altertumswissen¬schaftlichen Interesses. Die Beiträge des Tagungsbandes analysieren aus archäologischer und historischer Sicht die strukturellen Veränderungsprozesse, die sich während der archaisch-klassischen Zeit in den kretischen Bürgerstaaten vollzogen. Erstmals werden damit die unterschiedlichen Forschungsansätze der einzelnen Disziplinen zu einer einheitli¬chen Perspektive zusammengeführt. An mehreren Beispielen wird gezeigt, wie es der kretischen Aristokratie gelang, den Prozess der Poliswerdung aktiv zu gestalten und eine stabile, da institutionalisierte Adelsherrschaft zu etablieren. Deutlich wird zudem, dass die Veränderungen in der materiellen Kultur, die seit dem Ende des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. durch eine zunehmende Austerität gekennzeichnet ist, Manifestationen des strukturellen Wandels der politischen und sozialen Organisation der kretischen Poleis waren.
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 Prehistoric Crete by : Joanne M. Murphy
Download or read book Prehistoric Crete written by Joanne M. Murphy and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have played seminal roles in our understanding of Minoan culture and the reconstruction of Bronze Age society. For several geographical areas and chronological periods of Cretan history, tombs are the most abundant source of data. Each author in this volume takes a clear and distinct approach to the data, including some that emphasize political geography on multi-regional and multi-scalar levels, some that examine the commemoration of the dead and of the community for legitimizing purposes but also for maintaining and/or creating elite positions in social systems, and others that underline the overlap between mortuary rituals and religion. The aim of this volume is not to present all tombs in all periods on Crete comprehensively, but the breadth of these papers is intended generate a discourse not just among archaeologists working in different areas and time periods on Crete but also among archaeologists in Greece and a broader anthropological audience.
Book Synopsis Gournia, Vasiliki, and Other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete by : Edith H. Hall
Download or read book Gournia, Vasiliki, and Other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete written by Edith H. Hall and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the primary archaeological report about the excavation of the Late Minoan I town of Gournia in eastern Crete, directed by Harriet Boyd Hawes at the beginning of the 20th century. This second edition presents exactly the same information and images as the first edition, but in a smaller, more user friendly format than the original elephantine book. Plans, pottery, and small finds among many other topics on the Bronze Age archaeology of eastern Crete are all included, just as in the first edition.
Book Synopsis The Laws of Ancient Crete by : Michael Gagarin
Download or read book The Laws of Ancient Crete written by Michael Gagarin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions, many of which are fragmentary and relatively unknown, are accompanied by an English translation and also two commentaries; one focused on epigraphical and linguistic issues, and the other, requiring no knowledge of Greek, focused on legal and historical issues. The texts are preceded by a substantial introduction, which surveys the geography, history, writing habits, social and political structure, economy, religion, and law of Crete in this period.
Book Synopsis Seeing Double by : Susan A. Stephens
Download or read book Seeing Double written by Susan A. Stephens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius proved instrumental in bridging the distance between the two distinct and at times diametrically opposed cultures under Ptolemaic rule. Her work successfully positions Alexandrian poetry as part of the dynamic in which Greek and Egyptian worlds were bound to interact socially, politically, and imaginatively. The Alexandrian poets were image-makers for the Ptolemaic court, Seeing Double suggests; their poems were political in the broadest sense, serving neither to support nor to subvert the status quo, but to open up a space in which social and political values could be imaginatively re-created, examined, and critiqued. Seeing Double depicts Alexandrian poetry in its proper context—within the writing of foundation stories and within the imaginative redefinition of Egypt as "Two Lands"—no longer the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, but of a shared Greek and Egyptian culture.
Author :Brice L. Erickson Publisher :American School of Classical Studies at Athens ISBN 13 :1621390047 Total Pages :400 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (213 download)
Book Synopsis Crete in Transition by : Brice L. Erickson
Download or read book Crete in Transition written by Brice L. Erickson and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C. This new chronological foundation of datable pottery from excavated sites fills in the so-called 6th-/5th-century gap and dispels the prevailing view that this was a period of decline in population and one of artistic and cultural impoverishment. The 6th century heralded important changes in Cretan society, reflected in the reorganization of burial grounds, new patterns of sanctuary dedication, and the circulation of exotica among the elite. The study reveals unsuspected connections with mainland Greece, especially Sparta and Athens. Historians and archaeologists will find the author's conclusions, and their implications, to be of considerable interest.
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 544 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 Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean by : Krzysztof Nowicki
Download or read book Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean written by Krzysztof Nowicki and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an archaeological study of Crete in transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c. 4000 to 3000 BC) within the broader South Aegean context. The study, based on the author’s own fieldwork, contains a gazetteer of over 170 sites. The material from these sites will prompt archaeologists in Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East to reconsider their understanding of the foundation of Bronze Age civilization in the Aegean.
Book Synopsis An Archaeology of Land Ownership by : Maria Relaki
Download or read book An Archaeology of Land Ownership written by Maria Relaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect means. Particularly noteworthy is the tendency to portray land ownership as the driving force behind the emergence of social complexity, a primordial ingredient in the processes that led to the political and economic expansion of prehistoric societies. The association between people and land in all of these interpretive schemata is however less easy to detect analytically. Although various rubrics have been employed to identify such a connection – most notable among them the concepts of ‘cultures,’ ‘regions,’ or even ‘households’ – they take the links between land and people as a given and not as something that needs to be conceptually defined and empirically substantiated. An Archaeology of Land Ownership demonstrates that the relationship between people and land in the past is first and foremost an analytical issue, and one that calls for clarification not only at the level of definition, but also methodological applicability. Bringing together an international roster of specialists, the essays in this volume call attention to the processes by which links to land are established, the various forms that such links take and how they can change through time, as well as their importance in helping to forge or dilute an understanding of community at various circumstances.
Book Synopsis Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age by : Mercourios Georgiadis
Download or read book Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age written by Mercourios Georgiadis and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on material from an intensive and systematic field survey of Halasarna (modern Kardamaina), located on a coastal plain in the southern part of the Dodecanesian island of Kos, and a study of settlement patterns across the Aegean. It provides a new corpus of data on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods, presents a material sequence based on stylistic analysis, and develops a diachronic understanding of settlement dynamics within a wider regional context.
Book Synopsis The First Mariners by : Robert G. Bednarik
Download or read book The First Mariners written by Robert G. Bednarik and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume summarizes the history and findings of the First Mariners Project, which the author, Robert G. Bednarik, commenced in 1996 in order to explore the Ice Age origins of seafaring. This is the largest archaeological replication project ever undertaken with several hundred people involved in the construction of eight primitive vessels with stone tools under scientifically controlled conditions, six of them sailing. Four bamboo rafts have succeeded in accomplishing the historically documented crossings they sought to replicate. One of the successful experiments, a 1000 kilometer journey to Australia in 1998, attempted to recreate the first human arrival in Australia, probably around 60,000 years ago. Other voyages attempted to address the much earlier sea crossings documented to have taken place in the islands of Indonesia, the earliest of which may have occurred nearly a million years ago. These experiments have also featured in BBC and National Geographic documentaries. The First Mariners comprehensively describes the archaeological background and relevant issues of the project and features an extensive pictorial record, of both the experiments and the archaeological basis of this research – giving a unique experience to readers interested in understanding the earliest marine adventurers from a historical and technical perspective.
Author :University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Publisher :UPenn Museum of Archaeology ISBN 13 :9781931707596 Total Pages :552 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (75 download)
Book Synopsis Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 2 by : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Download or read book Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 2 written by University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2003 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM for vol. 2 includes Appendices 1-6 and the Vrokastro archaeological survey project.
Book Synopsis South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros by : Emilia Oddo
Download or read book South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros written by Emilia Oddo and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions investigate the settlement patterns, maritime connectivity, and material culture of the southeast of Crete in a diachronic fashion, in an attempt to define it as a region and trace its history. Papers focus primarily on the archaeology of the sites along the coastal strip spanning between the Myrtos Valley and Kato Zakros.
Download or read book KE-RA-ME-JA written by Dimitri Nakassis and published by INSTAP. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this volume, ke-ra-me-ja in Linear B, was chosen because it means ñpotterî (????????, from Greek ???????, ñpotterÍs clayî) and combines two major strands of Cynthia ShelmerdineÍs scholarship: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. It thereby signals her pioneering use of archaeological and textual data in a sophisticated and integrated way. The intellectual content of the essays demonstrate not only that her research has had wide-ranging influence, but also that it is a model of scholarship to be emulated.
