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Crete

Back to the Beginning: Reassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze Age
edited by I. Schoep, P. Tomkins and J. Driessen
Ever since their first discovery, more than a century ago, the Minoan Palaces have dominated scholarship on the Cretan Bronze Age. Opinion long held that their first appearance, seemingly at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, marked a pivotal transformation point, during which the simple, egalitarian societies of the Early Bronze Age were transformed into something significantly more complex, hierarchical and civilised. Over the last three ...
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Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren
edited by Olga Krzyszkowska
In recognition of the outstanding contribution made by Peter Warren to Aegean archaeology - and in particular to Cretan studies - this volume offers a collection of 36 papers reflecting his wide-ranging research interests. Among the topics addressed are material culture and iconography, including frescoes, pottery, seals and stone vases; chronology, inter-site relationships, overseas connections and religion; Knossos and the legacy of Sir Arthur ...
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Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete iHonor of Geraldine C. Gesell
edited by Anna Lucia D'Agata and Aleydis van de Moortel
Twenty-five years after Colin Renfrew's seminal book, The Archaeology of Cult, was published, the study of ritual and religion in Crete remains one of the most vital and debated areas of research in Old World prehistory. For the present volume, 25
specialists in the island's archaeology bring the subject up to date, at the same time honoring Gereldine Gesell, an influential forerunner in the field. Their multivocalist discourse ranges ...
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The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory
by Philip P. Betancourt
This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III). An intensive survey of the vicinity revealed other activities in the area from the Early Neolithic onwards, and placed the sites in a micro-regional context. A publication of ...
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Kommos: A Minoan Harbor Town and Greek Sanctuary in Southern Crete
by Joseph W. Shaw
As well as being an archaeological guide, this beautifully-illustrated volume tells the story of 30 years of fieldwork and study at one of the lesser known, but most intellectually fascinating, sites in Crete. In prehistory, Kommos was a busy harbor town with trading links extending to Egypt and Sardinia. The author traces the development of the settlement, its mysterious abandonment, and then resurrection as a religious site around 1000 B.C. ...
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Crete in Transition: Pottery Styles and Island History in the Archaic and Classical Periods
by Brice L. Erickson
This work presents a classification system and absolute chronology for black-gloss wares from Crete, establishing the first local and regional ceramic sequences during the period from 600 to 400 B.C. This new chronological foundation of datable pottery from excavated sites fills in the so-called 6th/5th-century gap and dispels the prevailing view that this was a period of decline in population and one of artistic and cultural impoverishment. The ...
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Aegyptiaca on the Island of Crete in their Chronological Context: A Critical Review. Volume I and Volume II
by Jacqueline Phillips
This volume, consisting of two separate parts, is an updated and expanded version of the author's 1991 dissertation and aims to present all known Egyptian imports found on the island of Crete. The first part concentrates on various groups of imports including stone vases, faience and glass vessels, pottery, scarabs, beads and figurative art not only in terms of their temporal and spatial distribution on Crete but also in terms of their impact on ...
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The Rash Adventurer: The Life of John Pendlebury
by Imogen Grundon, with a foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor
John Pendlebury (1904-41), the "Cretan Lawrence", was shot in the first months of the German occupation of Crete while organizing bands of guerrillas to fight the invaders. Not a professional soldier, Pendlebury was chosen for the task because of his intimate knowledge of Crete, its people and language, acquired through his years of archaeological experience on the island. As Curator at Knossos, successor to Sir Arthur Evans, his athleticism and ...
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Akrotiri, Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3500 Years Old
by Clairy Palyvou
It was long felt that an English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri, dealing not only with the building technology, but also with issues of typology, form, and function, would be welcomed. The present book is, thus, an attempt to provide the reader with an overall picture of the architecture of Akrotiri, including an outline of its town plan, a description of the individual houses, and a discussion of its relationship with Crete and its ...
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Knossos: Palace, City, State
edited by Gerald Cadogan, Elini Hatzaki and Adonis Vasilikis
The volume brings together 54 papers dealing with all aspects of the site of Knossos by leading scholars in the field of outstanding significance: readers will find a remarkable amount of new information and new interpretations on all aspects of Minoan and Cretan studies. They range in date from the Neolithic to the Late Roman and, indeed the modern reception of the site. 600p, 299 illus, 22 tabs (British School at Athens 2004)
Hardback. Price US$190.00