[PDF] Early Cretan Seals eBook

Author : Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 29,45 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 : Marta Ameri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108173519

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Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, scholarship has focused on description and documentation, chronology and dynastic histories, administrative function, iconography, and style. More recent studies have emphasized context, production and use, and increasingly, identity, gender, and the social lives of seals, their users, and the artisans who produced them. Using several methodological and theoretical perspectives, this volume presents up-to-date research on seals that is comparative in scope and focus. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach advances our understanding of the significance of an important class of material culture of the ancient world. The volume will serve as an essential resource for scholars, students, and others interested in glyptic studies, seal production and use, and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Ancient South Asia and the Aegean during the 4th-2nd Millennia BCE.

Author : Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316839508

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Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island altered monumentally. Emily Anderson turns light on the moment just before the palaces, recognizing it as a remarkably vibrant phase of socio-cultural innovation. Exploring the role of craftspersons, travelers and powerful objects, she argues that social change resulted from creative work that forged connections at new scales and in novel ways. This study focuses on an extraordinary corpus of sealstones which have been excavated across Crete. Fashioned of imported ivory and engraved with images of dashing lions, these distinctive objects linked the identities of their distant owners. Anderson argues that it was the repeated but pioneering actions of such diverse figures, people and objects alike, that dramatically changed the shape of social life in the Aegean at the turn of the second millennium BCE.