Markiani Amorgos

Author : Marissa Marthari,Colin Renfrew,Michael Boyd
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785701962

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Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context by Marissa Marthari,Colin Renfrew,Michael Boyd Pdf

The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from unauthorised excavations, where the archaeological context was irretrievably lost. Largely for that reason there are still many problems surrounding the chronology, the function and the meaning of Early Cycladic sculpture. This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive re-asssement sets out to rectify that situation by publishing finds which have been recovered in controlled excavations in recent years, as well as earlier finds for which better documentation can now be provided. Using the material from recent excavation projects, and drawing on the papers presented at a symposium held in Athens in 2014, it is possible now to undertake a fresh overview of the entire body of sculpture from the Cycladic islands which has been found in secure archaeological contexts. Beginning with early examples from Neolithic settlement sites and extending into a consideration of material found in later contexts, the 35 chapters are divided into sections which examine sculpture from settlements, cemeteries and the sanctuary at Kavos, concluding with a discussion of material, techniques and aspects of manufacture.

Author : Lila Marankou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069195314

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Markiani, Amorgos by Lila Marankou Pdf

Markiani in Amorgos is the first rural settlement of the Early Cycladic period to be excavated systematically and published comprehensively. Most of our knowledge of the Cycladic islands of Greece in the third millennium BC comes from the well-known Cycladic cemeteries, with their fine decorated pottery, marble vessels and striking marble figurines. Early Cycladic remains also underlie the proto-urban trading centres of the Aegean Bronze Age, such as Phylakopi on Melos or Ayia Irini on Kea. Now, for the first time, we glimpse the life of a country farming community with its rural crafts, including spinning and probably weaving and metallurgy. The stratified culture sequence, with its radiocarbon chronology, documents clearly a thousand years of peasant life in this rather isolated island community. The site, overlooking the sea on the south coast of Amorgos, was already fortified towards the beginning of the Bronze Age. The abundant finds contrast strikingly with the elite products recovered from the Cycladic cemeteries. The abundant pottery is local and undecorated. There is a full repertoire of tools and artefacts of stone and bone, and the metal finds include a lead seal, an indication (with the clay sealings) of some organisation in production and exchange already in this modest community. Written by an internationally recognised team of Greek and British scholars, and with its clear documentation and abundant drawings and photographs, this volume establishes a new direction in the study of Cycladic prehistory. It should become an indispensable work of reference for every archaeological library.

Author : Paul Halstead,Charles Frederick
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567077189

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Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece by Paul Halstead,Charles Frederick Pdf

Collaboration between prehistorians and palaeoecologists is radically changing our understanding of the relationship between landscape, land use and human settlement in Greece. The chapters in this volume include case studies and broader syntheses, developments of both on-site and off-site field methodology, explorations of palaeoecological and archaeological evidence, and discussions of how the palaeoecological and archaeological records are formed. Contributions range geographically over the contrasting natural and cultural landscapes of northern and southern Greece and the lowlands and highlands, and chronologically over the whole postglacial period, including studies of plant and animal ecology and of palaeoecological formation processes in the present. The difficulty of disentangling climatic and anthropogenic causes of palaeoecological change is a recurrent theme.

Author : Wolfram Schier,Susan Pollock
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789254327

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The Competition of Fibres by Wolfram Schier,Susan Pollock Pdf

The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resources and availability on the one hand and the ways those resources were exploited to produce textiles on the other. Technological and economic practices - for example, the strategies by which raw materials were acquired and prepared - in the production of textiles play a major role in the papers collected here. Contributions investigate the beginnings of wool use in western Asia and southeastern Europe. The importance of wool in considerations of early textiles is due to at least two factors. First, both wild as well as some domesticated sheep are characterized by a hairy rather than a woolly coat. This raises the question of when and where woolly sheep emerged, a question that has not up to now been resolvable by genetic or other biological analyses. Second, wool as a fiber has played a major role both economically and socially in both western Asian and European societies from as early as the 3rd millennium BCE in Mesopotamia, and it continues to do so, in different ways, up to the modern day. Despite the importance of wool as a fiber resource contributors demonstrate clearly that its development and use can only be properly addressed in the context of a consideration of other fibers, both plant and animal. Only within a framework that takes into account historically and regionally variable strategies of procurement, processing, and the products of different types of fibers is it possible to gain real insights into the changing roles played by fibers and textiles in the lives of people in different places and times in the past. With relatively rare, albeit sometimes spectacular exceptions, archaeological contexts offer only poor conditions of preservation for textiles. As a result, archaeologists are dependent on indirect or proxy indicators such as textile tools (e.g., loom weights, spindle whorls) and the analysis of faunal remains to explore a range of such proxies and methods by which they may be analyzed and evaluated in order to contribute to an understanding of fiber and textile production and use in the past.

Author : Erica Angliker,John Tully
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784918101

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Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries by Erica Angliker,John Tully Pdf

Recent excavations and new theoretical approaches are changing our view of the Cyclades. This volume aims to share these recent developments with a broader, international audience. Essays have been carefully selected as representing some of the most important recent work and include significant previously-unpublished material.

Author : Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107494626

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The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine Pdf

This book is a comprehensive up-to-date survey of the Aegean Bronze Age, from its beginnings to the period following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system. In essays by leading authorities commissioned especially for this volume, it covers the history and the material culture of Crete, Greece, and the Aegean Islands from c.3000–1100 BCE, as well as topics such as trade, religions, and economic administration. Intended as a reliable, readable introduction for university students, it will also be useful to scholars in related fields within and outside classics. The contents of this book are arranged chronologically and geographically, facilitating comparison between the different cultures. Within this framework, the cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age are assessed thematically and combine both material culture and social history.

Author : Natalie Abell
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948488679

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Ayia Irini by Natalie Abell Pdf

Area B, in the southeastern part of the Bronze Age town of Ayia Irini, Kea, preserves evidence for human activity from the mid-Early Bronze Age to the mid-Late Bronze Age, or Periods III-VII in the parlance of the site. This volume summarizes the results of excavation in the area and provides an overview of the stratigraphy, architecture, and artifacts found in it. Owing to its status as one of the best-excavated and best-documented sectors of the site, Area B also provides an excellent opportunity to consider diachronic changes in the ceramic assemblage through time. Analysis of macroscopic and petrographic fabrics and evaluation of how fabric, ware, and shape categories intersect enables a detailed, diachronic study of changes in pottery production, trade, and consumption patterns at the site in view of broader shifts in Aegean economy and society.

Author : Philip P. Betancourt,Eleni Mantzourani
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623030308

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Philistor by Philip P. Betancourt,Eleni Mantzourani Pdf

Contributions by 37 scholars are brought together here to create a volume in honor of the long and fruitful career of Costis Davaras, former Ephor of Crete and Professor Emeritus of Minoan Archaeology at the University of Athens. Articles pertain to Bronze Age Crete and include mortuary studies, experimental archaeology, numerous artifactual studies, and discussions on the greater Minoan civilization.

Author : Calliope E. Galanaki
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034276

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Gournes, Pediada by Calliope E. Galanaki Pdf

An Early Bronze Age cemetery with 37 tombs shows strong relations with the Cyclades during the time of the Kampos Cultural Group, as exemplified by distinctive pottery, obsidian, and metal items. A dense social network included the Cycladic islands and contacts with distant areas of Crete.

Author : Marisa Marthari,Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789250619

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Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from beyond the Cyclades by Marisa Marthari,Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd Pdf

This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The significance of these finds is that these are the principal testimonies of the influence of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic cultures in the wider Aegean. This influence is shown both by the export of sculptures produced in the Cyclades (and made of Cycladic marble), and of their imitations, produced elsewhere in the Aegean, usually of local marble. They hold the key, therefore, to the cultural interactions developing at this time, the so-called ‘international spirit’ manifest particularly during the Aegean Early Bronze II period.This was the time when the foundations of early Aegean civilisation were being laid, and the material documented is thus of considerable significance. The volume is divided into sections wherein contributions examine finds and their archaeological, social, and economic contexts from specific regions. It concludes with an overview of the significance and role of these objects in Early Bronze Age societies of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region. This will be the first time that this material has been systematically gathered together. Highly illustrated, it follows and builds on the successful preceding volume, Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxbow 2016).

Author : Barry Molloy
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785702327

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Of Odysseys and Oddities by Barry Molloy Pdf

Of Odysses and Oddities is about scales and modes of interaction in prehistory, specifically between societies on both sides of the Aegean and with their nearest neighbours overland to the north and east. The 17 contributions reflect on tensions at the core of how we consider interaction in archaeology, particularly the motivations and mechanisms leading to social and material encounters or displacements. Linked to this are the ways we conceptualise spatial and social entities in past societies (scales) and how we learn about who was actively engaged in interaction and how and why they were (modes). The papers provide a broad chronological, spatial and material range but, taken together, they critically address many of the ways that scales and modes of interaction are considered in archaeological discourse. Ultimately, the intention is to foreground material culture analysis in the development of the arguments presented within this volume, informed, but not driven, by theoretical positions.

Author : Philip P. Betancourt,Susan C. Ferrence
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623030247

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Metallurgy by Philip P. Betancourt,Susan C. Ferrence Pdf

Prof. James D. Muhly has enjoyed a distinguished career in the study of ancient history, archaeology, and metallurgy that includes an emeritus professorship at the University of Pennsylvania and a term as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as well as receiving the Archaeological Institute of America's Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology. In Muhly's honor, a total of 38 eminent scholars have contributed 30 articles that include topics on Bronze and Iron Age metallurgy around the Eastern Mediterranean in such places as Crete, the Cyclades, Cyprus, and Turkey.

Author : Mario Benzi
Publisher : All’Insegna del Giglio
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789609559232

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An island in Prehistory. Neolithic and Bronze Ages finds from Kalymnos Dodecanese by Mario Benzi Pdf

The earliest prehistoric excavations on the island took place in 1887, when W.R. Paton discovered Mycenaean chamber tombs in the side of the torrent bed, which runs into the harbour of Pothia to the east of the hill of Perakastro, where the Late Bronze Age settlement stood. Most of the vessels found from Paton were presented to the British Museum while others are preserved in other European Museums. The first systematic excavations, however, took place only in the early twenties of the past century when the Italian archaeologist A. Maiuri director of the archaeological exploration of the then Italian islands of the Dodecanese, excavated the three prehistoric caves of Ayia Varvara (1920), Choiromandres (1921), and Vathy-Dhaskalio (1922), which are the object of the present study.

Author : Cyprian Broodbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521528445

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An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades by Cyprian Broodbank Pdf

A case study of the Greek Cyclades, documenting new ways of studying global island archaeology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015068958910

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Archaeology International by Anonim Pdf