Defensible Sites In Crete C 1200 800 B C

Author : Krzysztof Nowicki
Publisher : Peeters
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000067969406

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Defensible Sites in Crete, C. 1200-800 B.C. by Krzysztof Nowicki Pdf

Shortly before 1200 B.C. the Aegean, and soon afterwards much of the East Mediterranean, was shaken by disturbances and destructions which considerably changed the settlement patterns, as well as the political and social structures of those lands. This led to the decline of the Mycenaean world which eventually caused the so-called Dark Age in Greece. Crete, being an island located on the cross-roads between the Greek Mainland, Sicily and South Italy, and the Levant, may have been particularly affected by the problems referred to in ancient written sources under the name of "the Sea Peoples". The Dark Age in Crete is potentially better represented than in other areas of the Aegean and explorations in the mountainous hinterland of the island have shown site numbers and a density of habitation only vaguely suggested by the excavated samples of sites. This book is based on fifteen years of field research presenting about 120 defensible sites with comprehensive descriptions, sketches, plans and illustrations of surface pottery. Archaeological evidence (in a large part hitherto unpublished) is analysed in detail to reconstruct changes in settlement patterns alongside the political, social, ethnic and economic aspects of the Dark Age society in Crete. The problem of the function of defensible and fortified sites during the Dark Age is examined against a more general background of similar sites on the island from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. The phenomenon of defensible settlements founded c. 1200 B.C. is discussed here in a wider Mediterranean context with reference to other Aegean islands, Cyprus and the Levant. One chapter presents the historical written sources from the Near East and Egypt which contain references to events that might have caused the dramatic changes suggested in archaeological evidence towards the end of the Bronze Age.

Author : Krzysztof Nowicki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:758159618

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Defensible Sites in Crete, C. 1200-800 B.C. by Krzysztof Nowicki Pdf

Author : Nancy H. Demand
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405155519

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The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History by Nancy H. Demand Pdf

The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History p>“Drawing extensively on the latest archaeological data from the entire Mediterranean basin, Nancy Demand offers a compelling argument for situating the origins of the Greek city-state within a pan-Mediterranean network of maritime interactions that stretches back millennia.” Jonathan Hall, University of Chicago “Nancy Demand’s book is a remarkable achievement. Her Heraklian labors have produced stunning documentation of the consequences of the vast spectrum of interaction between the peoples surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the Mesolithic into the Iron Age.” Carol Thomas, University of Washington Were the origins of the Greek city-state – the polis – a unique creation of Greek genius? Or did their roots extend much deeper? Noted historian Nancy H. Demand joins the growing group of scholars and historians who have abandoned traditional isolationist models of the development of the Greek polis and cast their scholarly gaze seaward, to the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History reveals the role the complex interaction of Mediterranean cultures and maritime connections had in shaping and developing urbanization, including the ancient Greek city-states. Utilizing, and enhancing upon, the model of the “fantastic cauldron” first put forth by Jean-Paul Morel in 1983, Demand reveals how Greek city-states did not simply emerge in isolation in remote country villages, but rather, sprang up along the shores of the Mediterranean in an intricate maritime network of Greeks and non-Greeks alike. We learn how early seafaring trade, such as the development of obsidian trade in the Aegean, stimulated innovations in the provision of food (the Neolithic Revolution), settlement organization (“political form”), materials for tool production, and concepts of divinity. With deep scholarly precision, The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History offers fascinating insights into the wider context of the Greek city-state in the ancient world.

Author : Evangelia Papadopoulou,Vassilis Chrysikopoulos,Gioulika Christakopoulou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784913427

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Achaios by Evangelia Papadopoulou,Vassilis Chrysikopoulos,Gioulika Christakopoulou Pdf

In Achaios, thirty-five scholars from six different countries have contributed with thirty-one papers, as a small token of appreciation, gratitude and affection to a true scholar, who devoted his life studying and revealing the long journeys of the Mycenaeans and their culture.

Author : Mieke Prent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 813 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406907

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Cretan Sanctuaries and Cults by Mieke Prent Pdf

This volume offers a contextual study of sanctuaries and cults in Crete in the transitional period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Archaic period (c.1200 to 600 BC). It provides a dynamic picture of the interplay of religious tradition and societal change in a period long considered a 'Dark Age' by Classical scholarship.

Author : Guy D. Middleton
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254266

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Collapse and Transformation by Guy D. Middleton Pdf

The years c. 1250 to 1150 BC in Greece and the Aegean are often characterised as a time of crisis and collapse. A critical period in the long history of the region and its people and culture, they witnessed the end of the Mycenaean kingdoms, with their palaces and Linear B records, and, through the Postpalatial period, the transition into the Early Iron Age. But, on closer examination, it has become increasingly clear that the period as a whole, across the region, defies simple characterisation – there was success and splendour, resilience and continuity, and novelty and innovation, actively driven by the people of these lands through this transformative century. The story of the Aegean at this time has frequently been incorporated into narratives focused on the wider eastern Mediterranean, and most infamously the ‘Sea Peoples’ of the Egyptian texts. In twenty-five chapters written by 25 specialists, Collapse and Transformation instead offers a tight focus on the Aegean itself, providing an up-to date picture of the archaeology ‘before’ and ‘after’ ‘the collapse’ of c. 1200 BC. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean regions, as well as providing data and a range of interpretations to those studying collapse and resilience more widely and engaging in comparative studies. Introductory chapters discuss notions of collapse, and provide overviews of the Minoan and Mycenaean collapses. These are followed by twelve chapters, which review the evidence from the major regions of the Aegean, including the Argolid, Messenia, and Boeotia, Crete, and the Aegean islands. Six chapters then address key themes: the economy, funerary practices, the Mycenaean pottery of the mainland and the wider Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region, religion, and the extent to which later Greek myth can be drawn upon as evidence or taken to reflect any historical reality. The final four chapters provide a wider context for the Aegean story, surveying the eastern Mediterranean, including Cyprus and the Levant, and the themes of subsistence and warfare.

Author : Krzysztof Nowicki
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623030605

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Monastiraki Katalimata by Krzysztof Nowicki Pdf

At first sight, the cliffside site of Katalimata looks like an extreme refuge place where one might expect small groups of people hiding for a brief time during the most serious period of threat. Excavation of the largest of the terraces, however, has shown that use of the place was often long-lasting and more complex. The most interesting result of the project was the identification at Katalimata of almost all the same phases known from elsewhere in Crete as periods of disturbances, relocations, and destructions. This monograph provides a detailed discussion of the six occupational phases recorded on the largest of Monastiraki Katalimata's terraces and offers a reconstruction of the site's role in the context of Cretan history.

Author : Donald C. Haggis
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623030360

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Kavousi I by Donald C. Haggis Pdf

Kavousi I is the initial volume of the Kavousi Excavation Series, which presents the final report of the Kavousi Project, a program of archaeological investigation near the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. Subsequent volumes will publish the results of the 1987-1992 excavations at the Vronda and Kastro sites in the Siteia Mountains overlooking Kavousi and of the cleaning and new study of the excavations of Harriet Boyd in 1900 and 1901. This volume, Kavousi I: The Archaeological Survey of the Kavousi Region, provides a comprehensive look at the topography of the area, its natural resources, and the way in which the local people interacted with them over time, as shown in the changing pattern of settlement. It sets the stage for the report on the excavations and provides an introduction to the local soils and to the pottery classification used by the excavators.

Author : Vyron Antoniadis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784916411

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Knossos and the Near East by Vyron Antoniadis Pdf

In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs.

Author : Donald Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527528116

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Economic Analyses of Prehistoric Greece by Donald Jones Pdf

This collection of essays uses economic theory to investigate important problems in Greek archaeology, covering the Neolithic Age through the Late Bronze Age and into the Early Iron Age. Topics explored include the erosion of egalitarianism between the Neolithic and the Late Bronze Age, the early urbanization of Minoan Crete, possible survivors of the volcanic destruction of Santorini, Bronze Age Aegean shipping, the post-Mycenaean Greek population collapse and subsequent migrations, and the Sea Peoples and piracy.

Author : Assaf Yasur-Landau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139485876

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The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age by Assaf Yasur-Landau Pdf

In this study, Assaf Yasur-Landau examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who were among the 'Sea Peoples' who migrated from the Aegean area to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC. Creating an archaeological narrative of the migration of the Philistines, he combines an innovative theoretical framework on the archaeology of migration with new data from excavations in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and thereby reconstructs the social history of the Aegean migration to the southern Levant. The author follows the story of the migrants from the conditions that caused the Philistines to leave their Aegean homes, to their movement eastward along the sea and land routes, to their formation of a migrant society in Philistia and their interaction with local populations in the Levant. Based on the most up-to-date evidence, this book offers a new and fresh understanding of the arrival of the Philistines in the Levant.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199802838

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Ancient Crete: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Florence Gaignerot-Driessen,Jan Driessen
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875583284

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Cretan Cities: Formation and Transformation by Florence Gaignerot-Driessen,Jan Driessen Pdf

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.

Author : INSTAP Academic Press
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034054

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Kavousi IIC by INSTAP Academic Press Pdf

This book is the third volume in the final report of the cleaning and excavations at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Vronda-located near Kavousi in eastern Crete-that were conducted between 1983 and 1992. Detailed analyses of the architecture, pottery, other finds (including figurines and stone tools), and botanical and faunal remains are presented in this volume, along with a complete history of the site and an attempt to reconstruct the social, political, and religious organization of the settlement.

Author : Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748627295

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Ancient Greece by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy Pdf

The period between the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization around 1200 BC and the dawning of the classical era four and half centuries later is widely known as the Dark Age of Greece, not least in the eponymous history by A. M. Snodgrass published by EUP in 1971, and reissued by the Press in 2000.In January 2003 distinguished scholars from all over the world gathered in Edinburgh to re-examine old and new evidence on the period. The subjects of their papers were chosen in advance by the editors so that taken together they would cover the field. This book, based on thirty-three of the presentations, will constitute the most fundamental reinterpretation of the period for 30 years. The authors take issue with the idea of a Greek Dark Age and everything it implies for the understanding of Greek history, culture and society. They argue that the period is characterised as much by continuity as disruption and that the evidence from every source shows a progression from Mycenaean kingship to the conception of aristocratic nobility in the Archaic period. The volume is divided into six parts dealing with political and social structures; questions of continuity and transformation; international and inter-regional relations; religion and hero cult; Homeric epics and heroic poetry; and the archaeology of the Greek regions. Copiously illustrated and with a collated bibliography, itself a valuable resource, this book is likely to be the essential and basic source of reference on the later phases of the Mycenaean and the Early Greek Iron Ages for many years.