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| Author | : Joseph W. Shaw |
| Publisher | : INSTAP Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2015-12-31 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 162303390X |
The goal of this book is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study of this architectual development concentrates on the older, larger sites of Knossos, Malia, and Phaistos where those very forms seem to have originated. Other Minoan towns and palaces in Crete are referenced when appropriate.
| Author | : Ellen Adams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110719752X |
A comprehensive account of the Palaces, control networks and spatial dynamics of Neopalatial Crete, the floruit of the Minoan civilization.
| Author | : Louise Hitchcock |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Quentin Letesson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0198793626 |
Nearly 4,000 years ago some of the very earliest towns of Europe appeared on the Mediterranean island of Crete. In this book we offer new insights into these ancient palaces and towns, as a contribution to a broader understanding of the diverse ways in which humans have made and used ancient built environments.
| Author | : Diamantis Panagiotopoulos |
| Publisher | : Presses univ. de Louvain |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Architecture, Minoan |
| ISBN | : 2875881000 |
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 | : Ellen Adams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2017-09-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108190766 |
Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, there is considerable variation in how the Minoan elites organized themselves and others on an intra-site and regional basis. This book explores and celebrates this rich, diverse and dynamic culture through analyses of important sites, as well as Minoan administration, writing, economy and ritual. Key themes include the role of Knossos in wider Minoan culture and politics, the variable modes of centralization and power relations detectable across the island, and the role of ritual and cult in defining and articulating elite control.
| Author | : Guy D. Middleton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 2017-06-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110715149X |
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
| Author | : Jerolyn E. Morrison |
| Publisher | : INSTAP Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2022-12-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1623034337 |
The 27 papers in this volume harken to the themes that Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewelry, the development of the Minoan settlement of Mochlos in eastern Crete, and the rise and fall of the Minoan civilization.
| 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.
| Author | : Jeffrey S. Soles |
| Publisher | : INSTAP Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 989 |
| Release | : 2022-12-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1623034388 |
This excavation of a Late Bronze Age town on the island of Mochlos in northeastern Crete includes the House of the Metal Merchant (with two large bronze hoards) and 13 other structures. Each building is described with its stratigraphy, architecture, small finds, ecofactual materials, function, and room use. This is a two volume set. Volume 1 contains the text and Volume 2 contains the Concordance, Tables, Figures, and Plates.
