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Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea

Author : Tracey Cullen,William R. Farrandy,Lia Karamali,Donald R. Keller,Lauren E. Talalay
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623033484

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Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea by Tracey Cullen,William R. Farrandy,Lia Karamali,Donald R. Keller,Lauren E. Talalay Pdf

The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Euboea. These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea for over 25 years. These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region in prehistory. The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and social landscape that characterized the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork.

Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 2015

Author : Nikolas Papadimitriou,James C. Wright,Sylvian Fachard,Naya Polychronakou-Sgouritsa,Eleni Andrikou
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789696721

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Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 2015 by Nikolas Papadimitriou,James C. Wright,Sylvian Fachard,Naya Polychronakou-Sgouritsa,Eleni Andrikou Pdf

This book provides the most complete overview of the Attica region from the Neolithic to the end of the Late Bronze Age. It paves the way for a new understanding of Attica in the Early Iron Age and indirectly throws new light on the origins of what will later become the polis of the Athenians.

Settlement and Land Use on the Periphery

Author : Jere M. Wickens,Susan I. Rotroff,Tracey Cullen,Lauren E. Talalay,Catherine Perlès
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784918200

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Settlement and Land Use on the Periphery by Jere M. Wickens,Susan I. Rotroff,Tracey Cullen,Lauren E. Talalay,Catherine Perlès Pdf

This survey by the Southern Euboea Exploration Project provides a wealth of intriguing information about fluctuations in long-term use and habitation in the Bouros-Kastri peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the Greek island of Euboia, and how the peninsula's use was connected to that of the main urban centre at Karystos.

Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context from beyond the Cyclades

Author : Marisa Marthari,Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789250633

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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 civilization 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).

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Author : Paul Cartledge,Paul Christesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199383610

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World by Paul Cartledge,Paul Christesen Pdf

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. Nonetheless, despite their dispersal and diversity, Greek communities were bound together by a network of commercial, cultural, diplomatic, and military ties and shared important commonalities, most notably language and religion. The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, a collaborative effort by more than forty eminent scholars, offers twenty-one detailed and comprehensive studies of key sites from across the Greek world in the period between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE. During that period, Greeks confronted a series of demographic, political, social, and economic challenges and generated an array of responses that transformed the ways in which they lived, worked, and interacted. Much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture--such as democracy, stone temples, and nude athletics--first developed during the Archaic period. The series is organized alphabetically by polis. Volume I contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Argos, Chalcis and Eretria, Chios-Lesbos-Samos, and Corcyra. Together with the other volumes in the series, the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we understand a crucial era in antiquity.

Societies in Transition in Early Greece

Author : Alex R. Knodell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520380547

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece by Alex R. Knodell Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the "Dark Age," and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would eventually expand to nearly all shores of the Middle Sea. Alex R. Knodell argues that in order to understand how ancient Greece changed over time, one must analyze how Greek societies constituted and reconstituted themselves across multiple scales, from the local to the regional to the Mediterranean. Knodell employs innovative network and spatial analyses to understand the regional diversity and connectivity that drove the growth of early Greek polities. As a groundbreaking study of landscape, interaction, and sociopolitical change, Societies in Transition in Early Greece systematically bridges the divide between the Mycenaean period and the Archaic Greek world to shed new light on an often-overlooked period of world history.

Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context

Author : Marissa Marthari,Colin Renfrew,Michael Boyd
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785701986

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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.

Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece

Author : Apostolos Sarris,Evita Kalogiropoulou,Tuna Kalayci,Evagelia Karimali
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201468

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Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction in Neolithic Greece by Apostolos Sarris,Evita Kalogiropoulou,Tuna Kalayci,Evagelia Karimali Pdf

The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past. This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula.

Gemini and the Sacred

Author : Kimberley C. Patton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786725912

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Gemini and the Sacred by Kimberley C. Patton Pdf

Why do twins remain uncanny to those born alone-in other words, most of us? Even with the rise of IVF and an increase in multiple births, why do we still do “a double take” when we encounter twins? Why has this been a near-universal response throughout human history, and how has it played out in religion and myth? Through the work of leading scholars in religion, folklore and mythology, history, anthropology, and archaeology, Gemini and the Sacred explores how twinship has long been imagined, especially in the complex relationship of sacred twin traditions to “twins on the ground” in biology and lived experience. The book considers the multiple ways in which the “doubling” of a human being may be interpreted as auspicious and powerful-or suppressed as unstable and dangerous. Why has this been so and how does it affect living twins today? Treating both famous and lesser-known twins-including supernatural animal twins-in the ancient Near Eastern and classical Mediterranean worlds; early Christianity and Gnosticism; Vedic, Hindu, West African, Black Atlantic, and native American traditions; ancient Mesoamerica, Celtic Roman Britain, and Scandinavia; and in the special, fraught bond shared by all twins, the book offers a variety of perspectives on this topic of great cultural significance.

An island in Prehistory. Neolithic and Bronze Ages finds from Kalymnos Dodecanese

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.

A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, 2 Volume Set

Author : Irene S. Lemos,Antonis Kotsonas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118770191

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A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, 2 Volume Set by Irene S. Lemos,Antonis Kotsonas Pdf

A Companion that examines together two pivotal periods of Greek archaeology and offers a rich analysis of early Greek culture A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean offers an original and inclusive review of two key periods of Greek archaeology, which are typically treated separately—the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. It presents an in-depth exploration of the society and material culture of Greece and the Mediterranean, from the 14th to the early 7th centuries BC. The two-volume companion sets Aegean developments within their broader geographic and cultural context, and presents the wide-ranging interactions with the Mediterranean. The companion bridges the gap that typically exists between Prehistoric and Classical Archaeology and examines material culture and social practice across Greece and the Mediterranean. A number of specialists examine the environment and demography, and analyze a range of textual and archaeological evidence to shed light on socio-political and cultural developments. The companion also emphasizes regionalism in the archaeology of early Greece and examines the responses of different regions to major phenomena such as state formation, literacy, migration and colonization. Comprehensive in scope, this important companion: Outlines major developments in the two key phases of early Greece, the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age Includes studies of the geography, chronology and demography of early Greece Explores the development of early Greek state and society and examines economy, religion, art and material culture Sets Aegean developments within their Mediterranean context Written for students, and scholars interested in the material culture of the era, ACompanion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean offers a comprehensive and authoritative guide that bridges the gap between the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner!

Archaeology

Author : Andreas G. Vlachopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Central Greece and Euboea (Greece)
ISBN : 9602042907

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Archaeology by Andreas G. Vlachopoulos Pdf

From the editor's preface: The first volume in the series "Archaeology" examined the Aegean islands, excepting Euboea. I had pointed out there that this exception was dictated by the geographical peculiarity of Euboea and its dual -island and mainland- cultural physiognomy over the millennia. The second volume completes the circumnavigation of the islands, opening with the large island of Euboea in the Aegean. It then moves westwards towards the Ionian Sea, covering the southern part of the Greek Mainland, the region known today as Central Greece or Sterea Hellas. During historical times, this wide geographical region was not a discreet entity with a specific name, as were Thessaly, Epirus or the Peloponnese. Nevertheless, the prefectures of Central Greece (Attica, Boeotia, Phthiotis, Evrytania, Phokis, Aetoloakarnanania), that is, the modern administrative-geographical districts, coincide for the greater part of their territory with the ancient regions that in Antiquity were defined as lands of 'ethne' or tribes. For the long prehistoric era (from the appearance of man to the early first millennium BC), there is, of course, no evidence on the tribally or ethnically constituted regions, since there are no written sources to corroborate such a division. There existed also ancient ethnic-geographical unities (Phokis, Lokris, Doris, Achaia Phthiotis and others) - frequently these too with vague or fluctuating boundaries, like their populations - which do not coincide with modern administrative divisions of Central Greece. Last, and this too is not unrelated to the archaeological 'human geography' of the Greek Mainland, the Ephorates of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture supervise small parts of neighbouring prefectures, weaving a singular topographical canvas that complicates the overall study of the ancient tribal territories.

The Wider Island of Pelops

Author : David Michael Smith,William G. Cavanagh,Angelos Papadopoulos
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,6 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.

Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond

Author : Adnan Baysal
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789699272

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Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond by Adnan Baysal Pdf

This volume aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies.

Ancient Methone, 2003-2013

Author : Sarah P. Morris,John K Papadopoulos
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781950446339

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Ancient Methone, 2003-2013 by Sarah P. Morris,John K Papadopoulos Pdf

Excavations at ancient Methone since 2003 by the Greek Ministry of Culture have uncovered remains from the Late Neolithic period through the fourth-century B.C. destruction by Philip II of Macedon. These discoveries extend the history of the city, a colony of Eretria (Euboia) since the late eighth century B.C., by nearly three thousand years into Greek prehistory. This volume presents results of the project in selected artefacts, burials, and structures representing the chief phases of the city, in chronological order. An introduction covers historical sources, excavations from 2003 to 2013, and the unique location of Methone. Part I details the prehistoric settlement at Methone, from the fourth millennium to 1000 B.C., and the Bronze Age burials. Part II focuses on the copious artifacts and ecofacts from the Early Iron Age "Hypogeion" shaft. Part III presents artifacts and architecture from the Archaic and Classical periods, through the final daysof the siege of the city in 354 B.C. The significance of this work lies in its interdisciplinary methods, combining stylistic analysis of artifacts and source-critical philology with natural history, bioarchaeology, materials analysis, and geochemistry, whose results reveal the long-term history of a site crucial to the economic and political history of Classical Greece and the north Aegean.