Akrotiri Thera

Author : Clairy Palyvou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623030667

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Akrotiri Thera by Clairy Palyvou Pdf

It was long felt that an English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri, dealing not only with the building technology, but also with issues of typology, form, and function, would be welcomed. The present book is, thus, an attempt to provide the reader with an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean. The book is based on the author's personal observations and experience obtained over a fifteen year period (1977-1992) of work at the site as the architect of the Akrotiri excavation. This book is confined to the last phase of habitation and the uniquely preserved houses that are seen today.

Author : Christos G. Doumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6188331706

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Akrotiri by Christos G. Doumas Pdf

Author : Anne Proctor Chapin
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Aegean
ISBN : 0876615337

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Charis by Anne Proctor Chapin Pdf

Consists of 20 chapters in 2 parts; pt. 1 contains chapters on Aegean prehistory and the East and pt. 2 contains chapters on classical Greece, Etruria, and Rome.

Author : Charles Gates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134676699

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Ancient Cities by Charles Gates Pdf

Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts. Covering a huge area geographically and chronologically, it brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west Asia Examining both pre-Classical and Classical periods, this is an excellent introductory textbook for students of classical studies and archaeology alike.

Author : Maud Devolder,Igor Kreimerman
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875589644

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Ashlar by Maud Devolder,Igor Kreimerman Pdf

This volume focusses on ashlar masonry, probably the most elaborate construction technique of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, from a cross-regional perspective. The building practices and the uses of cutstone components and masonries in Egypt, Syria, the Aegean, Anatolia, Cyprus and the Levant in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC are examined through a series of case studies and topical essays. The topics addressed include the terminology of ashlar building components and the typologies of its masonries, technical studies on the procurement, dressing, tool kits and construction techniques pertaining to cut stone, investigations into the place of ashlar in inter-regional exchanges and craft dissemination, the extent and signifi cance of the use of cut stone within the communities and regions, and the visual eff ects, social meanings, and symbolic and ideological values of ashlar.

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Lisa Auanger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292771134

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Among Women by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Lisa Auanger Pdf

Ten papers, which originated from a session at the meetings of the American Philological Association held in 1997, draw on a wide range of archaeological, literary and historical sources to reinterpret the significance, or otherwise, of relationships between women in ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. Subjects include: imaging the woman's world from the Bronze Age frescoes of Akrotiri; Sappho; evidence from Attic vase painting; Classical Attic tombstones; Ovid; Lucian; 5th-century AD Egypt. Contributors are drawn from the fields of archaeology, the classics and queer studies and reflect current trends in gender studies.

Author : David A Warburton
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9788779346529

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Time's Up! Dating the Minoan Eruption of Santorini by David A Warburton Pdf

Papers by natural scientists, archaeologists, egyptologists and classicists discussing the newest evidence of the Santorini eruption. The papers fall into two sections. I: Evidence, geology, archaeology & chronology; II: Debate: typology, chronology, methodology. Contributors include: Walter L. Friedrich & Jan Heinemeier, Philip P. Betancourt, Max Bichler, Thomas M. Brogan, Peter M. Fischer, Karen Polinger Foster, Hermann Hunger, Felix Hoflmayer,Rolf Krauss, Bernd Kromer, Alexander R. McBirney, Floyd W. McCoy, J. Alexander MacGillivray, Sturt W. Manning, Robert Merrillees, Raimund Muscheler, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nikolaos Sigalas, Chrysa Sofianou, Jeffrey S. Soles, Georg Steinhauser, Johannes H. Sterba, Annette Hen Sensen,Peter Warren, Malcolm H. Wiener.

Author : Christos G. Doumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6188331706

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Akrotiri by Christos G. Doumas Pdf

Author : Clairy Palyvou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623034269

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Daidalos at Work by Clairy Palyvou Pdf

This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos. Architecture is the protagonist, whereas the prehistoric time of this architecture is as important as any other historical time. This book is firmly based on the realities of a long-silenced world available to us today through the agency of archaeology. In that sense, it addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm. This dual goal emanates from my deep belief in the timeless and universal values of architecture. As a teacher of (history of) architecture, the challenge has been to bring history into the studios where future architecture is formulated, to engage history in the discourse on current architectural ethos and practices, and to show that an analytical and critical approach to the past is a potent tool for advancing architectural awareness and educating future architects. I am equally confident that such an approach will return its benefits back to history, for it will provide new tools of thought and methods of interpretation of the relics of the past. Having set the scope of this book, it is only fair to add what is not included in its goals: the reader will not find a descriptive account of Minoan buildings and sites nor a list of the major architectural achievements in chronological order. This is due not only to the enormous amount of relevant information that has been accumulated to date, but also to an altogether different interest in the subject, as described above. Time, however, is crucial: "We have a mental need to grasp that we are rooted in the continuity of time, and in the man-made world it is the task of architecture to facilitate this experience" (Pallasmaa 2005b, 32). Time-related issues, therefore, such as permanence and change or tradition and innovation, will concern us.

Author : Maria Mina
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080732244

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Anthropomorphic Figurines from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Aegean by Maria Mina Pdf

This monograph aims to throw light on the construction and enaction of gender in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Aegean, through analysis of a sample of 1660 previously published anthropomorphic figurines. Analysis of poses and postures, decoration and symbolism shows differentiation on gender lines, with hardening of social roles and status in the Early Bronze Age.

Author : David Michael Smith,William G. Cavanagh,Angelos Papadopoulos
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803273297

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The Wider Island of Pelops by David Michael Smith,William G. Cavanagh,Angelos Papadopoulos Pdf

This volume explores the myriad ways in which pottery was created, utilized, and experienced in the prehistoric Aegean, across a period of more than 4000 years between the Middle Neolithic and the Early Iron Age transition.

Author : Jan Driessen,Maria Relaki
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875589965

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OIKOS by Jan Driessen,Maria Relaki Pdf

This collection of papers explores whether the Lévi-Straussian notion of the House is a valid concept in aiding the comprehension of the social structure of Bronze Age Aegean societies. The volume succeeds in stressing the advances made in the study of social structure of the Aegean on the basis of material remains.

Author : Joan Aruz,Sarah B. Graff,Yelena Rakic
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588394750

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Cultures in Contact by Joan Aruz,Sarah B. Graff,Yelena Rakic Pdf

The exhibition "Beyond Babylon : Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.," held in 2008 - 2009 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrated the cultural enrichment that emerged from the intensive interaction of civilizations from western Asia to Egypt and the Aegean in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. During this critical period in human history, powerful kingdoms and large territorial states were formed. Rising social elites created a demand for copper and tin, as well as for precious gold and silver and exotic materials such as lapis lazuli and ivory to create elite objects fashioned in styles that reflected contacts with foreign lands. This quest for metals--along with the desire for foreign textiles--was the driving force that led to the establishment of merchant colonies and a vast trading network throughout central Anatolia during the early second millennium B.C. Texts from palaces at sites from Hattusa (modern Bogazköy) in Hittite Anatolia to Amarna in Egypt attest to the volume and variety of interactions that took place some centuries later, creating the impetus for the circulation of precious goods, stimulating the exchange of ideas, and inspiring artistic creativity. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence for these far-flung connections emerges out of tragedy--the wreckage of the oldest known seagoing ship, discovered in a treacherous stretch off the southern coast of Turkey near the promontory known as Uluburun. Among its extraordinary cargo of copper, glass, and exotic raw materials and luxury goods is a gilded bronze statuette of a goddess--perhaps the patron deity on board, who failed in her mission to protect the ship. To explore the themes of the exhibition--art, trade, and diplomacy, viewed from an international perspective--a two-day symposium and related scholarly events allowed colleagues to explore many facets of the multicultural societies that developed in the second millennium B.C. Their insights, which dramatically illustrate the incipient phases of our intensely interactive world, are presented largely in symposium order, beginning with broad regional overviews and examination of particular archeological contexts and then drawing attention to specific artists and literary evidence for interconnections. In this introduction, however, their contributions are viewed from a somewhat more synthetic perspective, one that focuses attention on the ways in which ideas in this volume intersect to enrich the ongoing discourse on the themes elucidated in the exhibition.

Author : Dominique Garcia,Raphael Orgeolet,Maia Pomadere,Julian Zurbach
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789691337

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Country in the City: Agricultural Functions of Protohistoric Urban Settlements (Aegean and Western Mediterranean) by Dominique Garcia,Raphael Orgeolet,Maia Pomadere,Julian Zurbach Pdf

This volume assembles contributions on the place of agricultural production in the context of the urbanization of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, concentrating on the second-millennium Aegean and the protohistoric north-western Mediterranean.

Author : Marta De la Torre
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364862

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The Conservation of Archaeological Sites in the Mediterranean Region by Marta De la Torre Pdf

One of the greatest challenges faced today by those responsible for ancient cultural sites is that of maintaining the delicate balance between conserving these fragile resources and making them available to increasing numbers of visitors. Tourism, unchecked development, and changing environmental conditions threaten significant historical sites throughout the world. These issues are among the topics dealt with in this book, which reports on the proceedings of an international conference on the conservation of classical sites in the Mediterranean region, organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The book includes chapters discussing management issues at three sites: Piazza Armerina, Sicily; Knossos, Crete; and Ephesus, Turkey. While visiting these sites, conference participants examined how issues raised at these locales can illuminate the challenges of management and conservation faced by complex heritage sites the world over. Additional chapters discuss such topics as the management of cultural sites, the reconstruction of ancient buildings, and ways of presenting and interpreting sites for today's visitors.