[PDF] Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi eBook

Author : Kostandinos S. Christakis
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1623030781

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The pithos is one of the most distinctive utilitarian forms of the Cretan Bronze Age ceramic repertoire. Because of its use as a storage container, a pithos is the foremost parameter for the evaluation of the economic organization of palatial and domestic sectors of Cretan Bronze Age society. The pithoi as pottery and their significance for the understanding of the Cretan Bronze Age economy has been the focus of a research project carried out from 1989 to 1999. This book is not a pithos handbook in the narrow sense, although the study offers a typological division of the data with comments on chronology and spatial distribution. It integrates stylistic considerations with broad fabric and technological observations in order to understand the production and consumption of pithoi.

Author : Philip P. Betancourt
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1623030099

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This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological, social, and religious advancements we call the Early Bronze Age. The arguments are two-fold: a detailed explanation of the ceramics we call Early Minoan I and the differences that set it apart from its predecessors, and an explanation of how these new and highly superior containers changed the storage, transport, and accumulation of a new form of wealth consisting primarily of processed agricultural and animal products like wine, olive oil, and various foods preserved in wine, vinegar, honey, and other liquids. The increased stability and security provided by an improved ability to store food from one year to the next would have a profound effect on the society.

Author : Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107131197

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Early Minoan Crete is re-envisioned as a space of social innovation, in which change occurred through people and objects.

Author : Susan Evasdaughter
Publisher : Heart of Albion
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :

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Between about 3000 and 1400 BC one of the world's great civilizations flourished on the island of Crete. The distinctive characteristic of this civilization was that it was dominated by an elite of women.

Author : R. F. Willetts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520333543

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

Author : Konstantinos Chalikias
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1623034221

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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 : H.R. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 042987037X

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First published in 1928, this volume contains six sequential lectures delivered by H.R. Hall in 1923 detailing the archaeological remains of Bronze Age Greece. Hall was keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities in the British Museum and author of ‘The Ancient History of the Near East’. Each of the author’s lectures was strictly chronological, with the main feature of each period being described in order. The profuse illustrations recreated here were fundamental to his view, with each Age defined through its art, pottery and stone carvings. These printed lectures follow their spoken counterparts closely and are brought to life with 320 illustrations inserted in places which reflect the original performances.