The Sacred Landscape At Leska And Minoan Kythera

Author : Mercourios Georgiadis
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034429

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The Sacred Landscape at Leska and Minoan Kythera by Mercourios Georgiadis Pdf

This volume presentes the results of the survey and excavation of a second peak sanctuary on Minoan Kythera at Leska. An introduction to the archaeological background of the island is provided, as well as a discussion on peak sanctuaries there and in Minoan Crete. The discovery of Leska and the research conducted there are described, and a discussion of the diachronic use of the summit is presented, following analyses of the material remains (including pottery, figurines, stone vessels, stone tools, and jewelry). Detailed discussions of the active role and significance of the landscape and the cultic practices allow an in-depth analysis of the links between society and cult, and also of the ways in which the landscape and immediate surroundings at Leska were sacralised in the Middle Minoan IB to Late Minoan IB phase. The broader analysis of the sacred landscape on Kythera provides a unique ropportunity to asess Aegean religion during the Minoan period outside Crete.

Author : Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438489896

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Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes by Arnau Garcia-Molsosa Pdf

Mountains contain a rich and diverse set of remnants left by human societies. They have been inhabited since prehistory and have been transformed by human activity during prehistorical and historical times, and that history defines mountain landscapes as we know them today. Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes contains twenty contributions by forty-one specialists currently researching mountain areas in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The different case studies address the subject diachronically, ranging from prehistory to modern times, and employ a variety of methodological strategies, including archaeological surveys and excavation, paleoenvironmental studies, and historical and ethnographical research. This volume demonstrates how multidisciplinary archaeological fieldwork is radically changing our vision of mountain landscapes. Viewing mountain landscapes as archaeological documents contributes to our understanding of the history of mountain environments and offers new archaeological datasets to use in the interpretation of human societies. Taken together, the essays collected here offer a comprehensive view of current research and suggest new directions for future study.

Author : Donald W. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043108342

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Peak Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves in Minoan Crete by Donald W. Jones Pdf

Author : John Nicolas Coldstream,George Leonard Huxley
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0571096832

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Kythera - Excavations and Studies by John Nicolas Coldstream,George Leonard Huxley Pdf

Author : Vili Apostolakou,Philip Betancourt,Thomas Brogan
Publisher : Prehistory Monographs
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1931534306

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Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete by Vili Apostolakou,Philip Betancourt,Thomas Brogan Pdf

"The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices-revealing a trade network of cooking pots and other clay vessels and their contents"--

Author : Konstantinos Chalikias,Emilia Oddo
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034221

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Exploring a Terra Incognita on Crete by Konstantinos Chalikias,Emilia Oddo Pdf

This book brings together for the first time scholars working on the Bronze Age settlement patterns and material culture of the southern Ierapetra Isthmus, a region that actively participated in the coastal and maritime trade networks of East Crete. During the past few decades, while various archaeological projects focused on the northern isthmus, the Ierapetra area remained largely neglected and unknown, a terra incognita. Yet, new excavations at Gaidourophas, Anatoli Stavromenos, Chryssi Island, Bramiana, and the ongoing research at the site of Myrtos Pyrgos are showing that the coastal area of Ierapetra was a vibrant and thriving settlement landscape during the Bronze Age. Far from being simply on the periphery of the major Minoan centers, the southern Ierapetra Isthmus played important roles in the cultural dynamics of Crete. Aiming to be the first building block in the development of an archaeological understanding of the region of the southern Ierapetra Isthmus, this book presents the status of the discipline and indicates future research trajectories.

Author : Lyvia Morgan
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034214

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Keos XI by Lyvia Morgan Pdf

The iconography of Late Bronze Age wall paintings is presented in their social context within the Cycladic island of Kea and the wider Aegean world. Town, land, and seascapes illustrate the community of this harbor. This book is lavishly illustrated with many color drawings, visualizations, and photographs.

Author : INSTAP Academic Press
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034375

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Petras, Siteia II by INSTAP Academic Press Pdf

This volume is the second of two that represent the final publication of Sector I of the Prepalatial to Postpalatial Minoan urban settlement and palace of Petras, Siteia, located in eastern Crete. It presents in detail the Late Bronze Age pottery recovered during the excavations conducted there from 1985 to 2000. The Neopalatial and Late Minoan II to III pottery from Houses I.1 and I.2 is analyzed and discussed with a focus on the main Neopalatial period of the Petras settlement and its Postpalatial reoccupation. The petrographic analysis of a select group of pottery from House I.1 is also detailed, allowing for a discussion of patterns in production and consumption over time.

Author : Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623034344

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The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete by Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder Pdf

The excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC is described. The cargo includes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit. The transport boat provides interesting information on a society that revolved around seafaring.

Author : Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan Dickinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521456649

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The Aegean Bronze Age by Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan Dickinson Pdf

Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age, the long period from roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact (particularly with the civilizations of the Near East), and religion and burial customs. Students and teachers will welcome this book, but it will also provide the ideal companion for amateur archaeologists visiting the Aegean.

Author : Chrysanthi Gallou
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789252439

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Death in Mycenaean Lakonia (17th to 11th c. BC) by Chrysanthi Gallou Pdf

A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day. The book will discuss and reconstruct the emergence and development of the Mycenaean mortuary tradition in Lakonia by examining the landscape of death, the burial architecture, the funerary and post-funerary customs and rituals, and offering patterns over a longue durée. The author proposes patterns of continuity from the Middle Bronze Age (even the Early Bronze Age in terms of burial architecture) to the LBA and, equally important, from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age,and reconstructs diachronic processes of invention of tradition and identity in Mycenaean communities, on the basis of tomb types and their material culture. The text highlights the social, political and economic history of Late Bronze Age Lakonia from the evolution of the Mycenaean civilisation and the establishment of palatial administration in the Spartan vale, to the demise of Mycenaean culture and the turbulent post–collapse centuries, as reflected by the burial offerings. The book also brings to publication the chamber tombs at Epidavros Limera that remained largely unpublished since their excavation in the 1930s and 1950s. Epidavros Limera was one of the most important prehistoric coastal sites in prehistoric southern Greece (early 3rd–late 4th millennium BC), and one of the main harbour towns of the Mycenaean administrative centres of central Lakonia. It is one of very few Mycenaean sites that flourished uninterruptedly from the emergence of the Mycenaean civilisation until after the collapse of the palatial administration and into the transition to the Early Iron Age. The present study of the funerary architecture and of the pottery from the tombs suggests that the site was responsible for the introduction of the chamber tomb type on the Greek mainland in the latest phase of the Middle Bronze Age (definitely no later than the transitional Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age period), and not in the early phase of the Late Bronze Age (Late Helladic I) as previously assumed.

Author : Sarah Cappel,Ute Günkel-Maschek,Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9782875583949

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Minoan Archaeology by Sarah Cappel,Ute Günkel-Maschek,Diamantis Panagiotopoulos Pdf

More than 100 years ago Sir Arthur Evans' spade made the first cut into the earth above the now well-known Palace at Knossos. His research saw the birth of a new discipline: Minoan Archaeology. The present volume aim to outline current trends and prospects of this scientific field.

Author : Kutlu Aslihan Yener
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623034283

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Goltepe Excavations by Kutlu Aslihan Yener Pdf

This volume presents over fifteen years (1981-1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners' village, Goltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surveys, test pit operations, profile trenches and excavation finds demonstrate that processing of cassiterite-rich ore was the primary function of activities at Goltepe. The variety and density of tin-rich vitrified crucibles as well as ground, powdered tin-rich ore from excavated contexts were only some of the several lines of evidence. Other finds indicated that the site was profoundly associated with metal production. Weighty evidence came in the numbers of multifaceted molds, ingots and tin bronze artifacts. Furthermore, 50,000 ground stone tools for ore dressing and vitrified material grinding were estimated on the site surface, while 5,000 came from excavated contexts. Early Bronze Age Goltepe and Kestel Mine represent the as-yet unique example of the highland production model, that is, the industrial tier 1 of the extraction and processing of raw materials for the production of metal artifacts. This model entails the mining and smelting operations in the metalliferously rich ore deposits and forests, usually located in the mountains, in this case, the central Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey.

Author : Bogdan Rutkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art, Minoan
ISBN : UOM:39015029959536

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Petsophas by Bogdan Rutkowski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047441656

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Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome by Anonim Pdf

Based on the visual and textual evidence, this volume concentrates on the artistic, intellectual, religious, and socio-political importance of divine images as media of communication in the polytheistic cosmos of ancient Greece and Rome.