The Late Minoan Iii Necropolis Of Armenoi

Author : Robert Arnott,Holley Martlew,Yannis Tzedakis
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034191

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The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi by Robert Arnott,Holley Martlew,Yannis Tzedakis Pdf

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds. A chapter on the Linear B discovery from the necropolis is also included. The necropolis is the most important and extensive, and the only intact, cemetery that dates to Late Bronze Age III on Crete. This publication will augment our knowledge of Minoan burial practices, craft production, and religion. It will elucidate Minoans as a people: what they ate and drank, how they lived their lives, what diseases caused them suffering, and how they died.

Author : Yannis Tzedakis,Holley Martlew,Michael Tite
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798888570470

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The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi by Yannis Tzedakis,Holley Martlew,Michael Tite Pdf

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds. The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi, Crete (ca. 1390–1190 BC) is the only intact, complete Late Minoan necropolis presently known, of which 232 tombs have been excavated. The research project was the first large-scale genomic sampling of skeletal material from a single site in Bronze Age Greece, as well as being the first time a multi-disciplinary approach with ancient DNA as its focus has been conducted on a large, well-curated necropolis assemblage. As such it provides a unique opportunity to answer archaeological questions, the most important of which are kinship, an analysis of the origin and ancestry of those buried in the tombs, the homogeneity of the population or otherwise, and diet. The analysis program was only possible because the tombs had not been seriously disturbed, and human skeletal remains had survived and been expertly conserved. The results of ancient DNA, stable isotope analysis, osteological analysis, and radiocarbon dating are presented, providing the first detailed record of ancestry and kinship in this iconic period of Eastern Mediterranean prehistory. In addition, the long-debated problem of the location of the wealthy city of da-*22-to, referred to many times in the Linear B tablets, is addressed and key evidence is presented. The rich finds in the Necropolis, the town excavation, and in the environs, support the interpretation that the ‘city’ that built the Necropolis is da-*22-to.

Author : Yannis Tzedakis,Holley Martlew,Robert Arnott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Armenoi Necropolis Site (Greece)
ISBN : 1931534977

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The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi by Yannis Tzedakis,Holley Martlew,Robert Arnott Pdf

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds. A chapter on the Linear B discovery from the necropolis is also included. The necropolis is the most important and extensive, and the only intact, cemetery that dates to Late Bronze Age III on Crete. This publication will augment our knowledge of Minoan burial practices, craft production, and religion. It will elucidate Minoans as a people: what they ate and drank, how they lived their lives, what diseases caused them suffering, and how they died.

Author : Marina Panagiotaki,Ilias Tomazos,Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789252996

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Cutting-edge Technologies in Ancient Greece by Marina Panagiotaki,Ilias Tomazos,Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos Pdf

This volume examines materials produced with the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics). The technologies based on fire have been considered high-tech technologies and they have contributed to the evolution of man throughout history. Papers highlight technical innovations of the technician/artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean (mainland Greece and the islands) during the Bronze Age, the Classical and the Byzantine periods.

Author : Philip P. Betancourt,Eleni Mantzourani
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : A. Kanta
Publisher : Paul Astroms Forlag
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009173595

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The Late Minoan III Period in Crete by A. Kanta Pdf

Author : Fritz Blakolmer
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875589682

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Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography by Fritz Blakolmer Pdf

The aim of this volume is to present an overview of current trends and individual methodological attempts towards arriving at an adequate understanding of Minoan, Cycladic, and Mycenaean iconography.

Author : Robert Arnott
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789255553

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Crossing Continents by Robert Arnott Pdf

The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistory. These were initially between India and its Indus Civilisation (Meluḫḫa) and the Near East and then finally with the societies of the Early and Middle Bronze Age Aegean,with their slowly emerging palace-based economies and complex social structures. Starting in the middle of the third millennium BC but diminishing after approximately 1800 BC, these connections point to a form of indirect or what might be called ‘trickle-down’ contact between the Aegean and India. From the start, until 2500 BC, the objects and commodities that formed this contact were transported overland, through Northern Iran, but after that time, the Harappans took control and we see a structured trade using the sea out through the Persian Gulf. These contacts can also be placed into three categories: (a) the importation of objects manufactured in India or made from Indian commodities imported into the Near East,which eventually found their way to the Aegean and have parallels at Indian sites; (b) the importation of inorganic commodities such as tin, possibly some gold and lapis lazuli, exported from India or Central Asia under Harappan control; and (c) the importation of non-perishable organic commodities. This study views the Aegean as part of a greater trade network and here the author has attempted to both evaluate and re-evaluate what evidence and speculation there are for such contacts, particularly for the commodities such as tin and lapis lazuli as well as more recently discovered objects. It is emphasised that this does not testify to direct cultural and trade links and geographical knowledge between the Harappans and the prehistoric Aegean in the third and second millennia BC; it was just the natural extension of trade between the Near East and India. No goods or commodities arrived directly from India; they accumulated added value as they first built up a distinguished pedigree of ownership in the Near East and Syro-Palestine. In the Early to Late BronzeAges, India was an important resource for valuable and indispensable commodities destined for the elites and developing technologies of much of the Old World. Finally, the author has examined the period after the end of the Bronze Age to the time of Alexander the Great and particularly the period after the sixth century, when Greeks were now beginning to know a little about India. Within 200 years India was known to scholar and non-scholar alike, such as those who witnessed the Persian invasions of Greece or who later became Macedonian and Greek foot soldiers.

Author : Andrew Shapland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009151542

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Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete by Andrew Shapland Pdf

Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.

Author : Philip P. Betancourt,Michael C. Nelson,Hector Williams
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623031053

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Krinoi kai Limenes by Philip P. Betancourt,Michael C. Nelson,Hector Williams Pdf

Joseph and Maria Shaw received the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in January of 2006. This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the Gold Medal Colloquium held in their honor during the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Montreal, Quebec. Additional articles have also been written for this volume. Many of the articles pertain to different aspects of Aegean Bronze Age architecture, harbors, frescoes, and trade, which are all keen interests of the Shaws.

Author : Peter M. Day,Halford W. Haskell,Richard E Jones,John T. Killen
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623030063

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Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean by Peter M. Day,Halford W. Haskell,Richard E Jones,John T. Killen Pdf

The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world. Found in a variety of contexts, the type was used both to transport and to store liquid commodities in bulk. The peak of the production and exchange of this jar corresponded with the time of economic expansion on the Greek mainland. On Crete, stirrup jars appeared at most major centers on the island. Their presence in large numbers in storerooms indicates the movement of commodities and the centralized storage and control of goods. The broad distribution of stirrup jars at coastal sites in the eastern Mediterranean and their presence in the cargoes of the Uluburun, Gelidonya, and Iria shipwrecks clearly shows their role in the extensive exchange networks within the Aegean and beyond. Because they represent significant Aegean exchange, tracing their origins and movement provides information regarding production centers and trade routes. This study concentrates on determinating of provenance of the jars and the subsequent tracing of exchange routes. The fully integrated research design is an interdisciplinary, collaborative archaeological project that embraces typological, chemical, petrographic, and epigraphic approaches in order to shed light on the jars' classification and origin. The results of the chemical and petrographic work constitute primary parts of the study. By establishing the origins and distribution of the jars, these vases are placed within their historical context. The identification of production centers and export routes is critical for a full understanding of the economic and political conditions in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and eastern Mediterranean.

Author : Marc Lodewijckx
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9061867223

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Archaeological and Historical Aspects of West-European Societies by Marc Lodewijckx Pdf

The contents of this volume of essays in his honour gives a good overview of the fields in which Prof. Van Doorselaer has been active throughout his academic career. This book is especially an Album Amicorum, filled with reminiscences and intentions to continue the work. The voluminous size of this book may be considered as an adequate measure of the overall sympathy for Prof. Van Doorselaer. We hope that this publication may encourage him to remain active in the field of archaeology, and that the co-operation among colleagues, stimulated by this project, may be continued in the future.

Author : Birgit P. Hallager,P. J. P. McGeorge
Publisher : Paul Astroms Forlag
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028466343

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Late Minoan III Burials at Khania by Birgit P. Hallager,P. J. P. McGeorge Pdf

Author : Jeffrey S. Soles
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0876615248

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The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and the House Tombs of Bronze Age Crete by Jeffrey S. Soles Pdf

This book is a study of the house tombs of Crete based on a reexamination of the extant remains at the cemeteries of Gournia and Mochlos. Excavated in the beginning of the century by Harriet Boyd Hawes (Gournia) and Richard B. Seager (Mochlos), the cemeteries underwent cleaning operations in 1971, 1972, and 1976. These later investigations resulted in a more thorough understanding of the sites; actual-state plans and sections of the tombs and over-all maps of the cemeteries were produced. Chapters I and II present the excavations of the cemeteries of Gournia and Mochlos. A description of the cemetery as a whole unit is followed by a discussion of each tomb that includes bibliography, a description of location and excavation, a description of architecture, information about burials and chronology, and a catalogue of new and reexamined finds. Chapter III is a catalogue of all known tombs of this type in Crete. These two sections are tied together by the architectural discussion in Chapter IV. Chapter V, Offerings and Shrines, and Chapter VI, Burials and Social Ranking, explore the uses of house tombs and their significance in the religious and political life of early Greece. The volume has a comprehensive index, map and plans of the sites, line drawings of many of the catalogued objects, and photographs of the tombs and found objects.

Author : Melissa Eaby
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034160

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Chalasmenos I by Melissa Eaby Pdf

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos, located near Ierapetra in eastern Crete. The site was excavated (1992-2014), initially as part of a Greek-American project under the direction of Metaxia Tsipopoulou and the late William Coulson. House A.2 is a two-room structure on the southwestern edge of the site. The excavation and stratigraphy, architecture, pottery, small finds, and faunal material from the building are presented. The house was used for domestic purposes, serving as the home of an elite (or prospective elite) family, but it also was a meeting and dining place on certain occasions.