Aegaeum 6

Aegaeum 6
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1990
Genre: Aegaean Sea Region
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Aegaeum

Aegaeum
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1990
Genre: Aegaean Sea Region
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Charis

Charis
Author: Anne Proctor Chapin
Publisher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780876615331

Consists of 20 chapters in 2 parts; pt. 1 contains chapters on Aegean prehistory and the East and pt. 2 contains chapters on classical Greece, Etruria, and Rome.

Representations

Representations
Author: John Bennet
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789256429

This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’. Each was designed to capture current developments in these interrelated research areas and also to help elide boundaries between ‘science-based’ and ‘humanities-based’ approaches, and between those focused on written communication (especially its content) and those interested in broader modes of communication. Contributions are arranged thematically in three groups: the first concerns primarily non-written communication, the second mainly written communication, and the third blurs this somewhat arbitrary distinction. Topics in the first group include use of color in wall-paintings at Late Bronze Age Pylos; a re-interpretation of the ‘Harvester Vase’ from Ayia Triada; re-readings of the sequence of grave stelae at Mycenae, of Aegean representations of warfare, and of how ritual architecture is represented in the Knossos wall-paintings; and the use of painted media to represent depictions in other (lost) media such as cloth. Topics in the second group range from defining Aegean writing itself, through the contexts for literacy and how the Linear B script represented language, to a historical exploration of early attempts at deciphering Linear B. In the third group Linear B texts and archaeological data are used to explore how people were represented diacritically through taste and smell, and how different qualities of time were expressed both textually and materially; the roles of images in Aegean scripts, complemented by a Peircian analysis of early Cretan writing; a consideration of the complementary role of (non-literate) sealing and (literate) writing practices; and concludes with a further exploration of the color palette used at Pylos.

Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl

Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl
Author: Judith Weingarten
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2023-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1803275340

Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.

Ashlar

Ashlar
Author: Maud Devolder
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 2875589644

This volume focusses on ashlar masonry, probably the most elaborate construction technique of the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, from a cross-regional perspective. The building practices and the uses of cutstone components and masonries in Egypt, Syria, the Aegean, Anatolia, Cyprus and the Levant in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC are examined through a series of case studies and topical essays. The topics addressed include the terminology of ashlar building components and the typologies of its masonries, technical studies on the procurement, dressing, tool kits and construction techniques pertaining to cut stone, investigations into the place of ashlar in inter-regional exchanges and craft dissemination, the extent and signifi cance of the use of cut stone within the communities and regions, and the visual eff ects, social meanings, and symbolic and ideological values of ashlar.

Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi

Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi
Author: Kostandinos S. Christakis
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2005-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1623030781

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology
Author: Ian Shaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1300
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192596985

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt from prehistory through to the end of the Roman period. It seeks to place Egyptology within its theoretical, methodological, and historical contexts, indicating how the subject has evolved and discussing its distinctive contemporary problems, issues, and potential. Transcending conventional boundaries between archaeological and ancient textual analysis, the volume brings together 63 chapters that range widely across archaeological, philological, and cultural sub-disciplines, highlighting the extent to which Egyptology as a subject has diversified and stressing the need for it to seek multidisciplinary methods and broader collaborations if it is to remain contemporary and relevant. Organized into ten parts, it offers a comprehensive synthesis of the various sub-topics and specializations that make up the field as a whole, from the historical and geographical perspectives that have influenced its development and current characteristics, to aspects of museology and conservation, and from materials and technology - as evidenced in domestic architecture and religious and funerary items - to textual and iconographic approaches to Egyptian culture. Authoritative yet accessible, it serves not only as an invaluable reference work for scholars and students working within the discipline, but also as a gateway into Egyptology for classicists, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists.

The Living Goddesses

The Living Goddesses
Author: Marija Gimbutas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2001-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520229150

Presents evidence to support the author's woman-centered interpretation of prehistoric civilizations, considering the prehistoric goddesses, gods and religion, and discussing the living goddesses--deities which have continued to be venerated through the modern era.

Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography

Current Approaches and New Perspectives in Aegean Iconography
Author: Fritz Blakolmer
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Louvain
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 2875589687

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.