Urbanism In The Aegean Bronze Age

Author : Keith Branigan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567608086

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Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age by Keith Branigan Pdf

State-formation and the emergence of civilization have been two of the major arenas of debate in Aegean prehistory for the last twenty five years. The process of urbanization has therefore been at the forefront of scholarly debate. Bronze Age towns, however, have largely been ignored, particularly at a generalized level. Research has usually focused on their architecture, and particularly their elite or public architecture, rather than their general nature and character, and many studies have been restricted to a single town or even a single building. This volume redresses the balance and draws attention and thought not only to urban settlements as a whole but to their social and economic roles, their demographic significance and ultimately to their character and personality.

Author : Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192512246

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Minoan Architecture and Urbanism by Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett Pdf

Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.

Author : Laura Preston
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782973195

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Inside the City in the Greek World by Laura Preston Pdf

The publication of the papers presented in this volume marks an important step in the study of ancient cities. Despite having long been a focus of archaeological investigation and analysis, until relatively recently they have tended to be described rather than analysed. These eleven papers concentrate on analysing ancient urban centres from within, exploring some of the ways in which people lived in, perceived and modified their built environments. The papers span several time periods, from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era as well as geographic locations from Italy to Beirut. The title of this volume thus incorporates two meanings of Greek: the territory of the modern nation-state and areas of the ancient world with cultural influences from the Aegean. The diversity of ancient urban forms is therefore fully recognised and celebrated.

Author : Dominique Garcia,Raphael Orgeolet,Maia Pomadere,Julian Zurbach
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789691337

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Country in the City: Agricultural Functions of Protohistoric Urban Settlements (Aegean and Western Mediterranean) by Dominique Garcia,Raphael Orgeolet,Maia Pomadere,Julian Zurbach Pdf

This volume assembles contributions on the place of agricultural production in the context of the urbanization of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, concentrating on the second-millennium Aegean and the protohistoric north-western Mediterranean.

Author : Charles Gates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134676620

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Ancient Cities by Charles Gates Pdf

Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts. Covering a huge area geographically and chronologically, it brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west Asia Examining both pre-Classical and Classical periods, this is an excellent introductory textbook for students of classical studies and archaeology alike.

Author : Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Minoan
ISBN : 9782875881007

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Minoan Realities by Diamantis Panagiotopoulos Pdf

What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social significance of imagery and built structures in Neopalatial Crete were the subject of a workshop which took place on November 16th, 2009 at the University of Heidelberg. The papers presented in the workshop are collected in the present volume. They provide different approaches to this complex topic and are aimed at a better understanding of the formation, role, and perception of images and architecture in a very dynamic social landscape. The Cretan Neopalatial period saw a rapid increase in the number of palaces and 'villas', characterized by elaborate designs and idiosyncratic architectural patterns which were themselves in turn generated by a pressing desire for a distinctive social and performative environment.

Author : Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192512253

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Minoan Architecture and Urbanism by Quentin Letesson,Carl Knappett Pdf

Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.

Author : Joan M. Cichon
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803270456

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Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete by Joan M. Cichon Pdf

This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.

Author : Peter M. Warren,Vronwy Hankey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021833960

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Aegean Bronze Age Chronology by Peter M. Warren,Vronwy Hankey Pdf

Author : Joanne M. A. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190926069

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Death in Late Bronze Age Greece by Joanne M. A. Murphy Pdf

"Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century, dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level of variety and of similarity that we see in the practices at each site and thereby highlights the differences between communities that otherwise look very similar. By bringing together an international group of scholars working on tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese we are afforded a unique view of the development and diversity of these communities. The papers provide a penetrative analysis of the related issues by discussing tombs connected with sites ranging in size from palaces to towns to villages and in date from the start to the end of the Late Bronze Age. This book contextualizes the mortuary studies in recent debates on diversity at the main palatial and secondary sites and between the economic and political strategies and practices throughout Greece. The papers in the volume illustrate the pervasive connection between the mortuary sphere and society through the creation and expression of cultural narratives, and draw attention to the social tensions played out in the mortuary arena"--

Author : Francesco Iacono
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350036161

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The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe by Francesco Iacono Pdf

Interaction and mobility have attracted much interest in research within scholarly fields as different as archaeology, history, and more broadly the humanities. Critically assessing some of the most widespread views on interaction and its social impact, this book proposes an innovative perspective which combines radical social theory and currently burgeoning network methodologies. Through an in-depth analysis of a wealth of data often difficult to access, and illustrated by many diagrams and maps, the book highlights connections and their social implications at different scales ranging from the individual settlement to the Mediterranean. The resulting diachronic narrative explores social and economic trajectories over some seven centuries and sheds new light on the broad historical trends affecting the life of people living around the Middle Sea. The Bronze Age is the first period of intense interaction between early state societies of the Eastern Mediterranean and the small-scale communities to the west of Greece, with people and goods moving at a scale previously unprecedented. This encounter is explored from the vantage point of one of its main foci: Apulia, located in the southern Adriatic, at the junction between East and West and the entryway of one of the major routes for the resource-rich European continent.

Author : Helène Whittaker von Hofsten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107049871

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Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece by Helène Whittaker von Hofsten Pdf

This book argues that religious beliefs played a significant role in the social changes that occurred in Middle Helladic Greece.

Author : Walter E. Aufrecht,Steven W. Gauley,Neil A. Mirau
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567269881

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Urbanism in Antiquity by Walter E. Aufrecht,Steven W. Gauley,Neil A. Mirau Pdf

The origin and growth of cities in antiquity. The origin and growth of cities forms one of the most important chapters in human history. In this volume, 17 researchers present archaeological, epigraphic and textual data on the rise of urbanism in the ancient Near Eastern world, Cyprus to Mesopotamia and from Crete to Egypt. Topics addressed include the influence of agriculture intensification, of trade, of craft specialization and of writing on the rise of cities. The roles of cultural elites, of ideologies and of relations between proximal urban centres are also examined. The contributors to this volume include such well-known scholars as William Dever and Donald Redford.

Author : Andrew Creekmore,Kevin D. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107046528

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Making Ancient Cities by Andrew Creekmore,Kevin D. Fisher Pdf

Investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism.