Author : Lena Hakulin
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN :
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.
Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134880634
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.
Author : Sinclair Hood
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Crete (Greece).
ISBN :
"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.
Author : Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107131197
Early Minoan Crete is re-envisioned as a space of social innovation, in which change occurred through people and objects.
Author : Edith Hall Dohan
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Bronze age
ISBN :
Author : Susan Evasdaughter
Publisher : Heart of Albion
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
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.
Author : Ina Berg
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
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.
Author : J. Lesley Fitton
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
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?
Author : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Minoan
ISBN : 2875881000
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.
Author : Senta C. German
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
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.
