Author: Paul Yule
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World
Author: Marta Ameri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108173519
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108173519
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
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.
Early Cretan Seals
Author: Paul Yule
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Early Cretan Seals
Author: Paul Yule
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete
Author: Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107131197
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Early Minoan Crete is re-envisioned as a space of social innovation, in which change occurred through people and objects.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107131197
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Early Minoan Crete is re-envisioned as a space of social innovation, in which change occurred through people and objects.
Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete
Author: Emily S. K. Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316839508
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316839508
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
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.
Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World
Author: Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131679072X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions between this 'provincial' coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located. Drawing on network and agency theory, two current and highly effective methodologies in prehistoric Mediterranean archaeology, Kramer-Hajos argues that the Euboean Gulf region thrived when it was part of a decentralized coastal and maritime network, and declined when it was incorporated in a highly centralized mainland-looking network. Her research and analysis contributes new insights to our understanding of the mechanics and complexity of the Bronze Age Aegean collapse.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131679072X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions between this 'provincial' coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located. Drawing on network and agency theory, two current and highly effective methodologies in prehistoric Mediterranean archaeology, Kramer-Hajos argues that the Euboean Gulf region thrived when it was part of a decentralized coastal and maritime network, and declined when it was incorporated in a highly centralized mainland-looking network. Her research and analysis contributes new insights to our understanding of the mechanics and complexity of the Bronze Age Aegean collapse.
Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script
Author: Arthur J. Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Mycenaean
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Cretan Seals
Author: V. E. G. Kenna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seals (Numismatics)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seals (Numismatics)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art
Author: Burlington Fine Arts Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An Archaeological Palimpsest in Minoan Crete
Author: Georgia Flouda
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN: 162303440X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This publication presents the archaeological evidence from two associated Minoan sites situated at Apesokari in the Mesara Plain of South-Central Crete, Tholos Tomb A and the neighboring free-standing domestic complex on Vigla Hill. It thoroughly reconstructs the natural and social landscape of this Cretan community from the late Prepalatial to the early Neopalatial periods through its interdisciplinary character; this includes photogrammetric two- and three-dimensional models of the architectural remains, viewshed analysis of both monuments and of the earlier Tholos Tomb B, as well as A-DNA and stable isotope analysis of the bones. The study of the burial dataset provides insights into the social construction of collective memory and identity by the burying social group, whereas the habitational deposits from the building on Vigla hill establish the longevity and function of the site as a node of the southern Mesara communication and exchange networks.
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN: 162303440X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This publication presents the archaeological evidence from two associated Minoan sites situated at Apesokari in the Mesara Plain of South-Central Crete, Tholos Tomb A and the neighboring free-standing domestic complex on Vigla Hill. It thoroughly reconstructs the natural and social landscape of this Cretan community from the late Prepalatial to the early Neopalatial periods through its interdisciplinary character; this includes photogrammetric two- and three-dimensional models of the architectural remains, viewshed analysis of both monuments and of the earlier Tholos Tomb B, as well as A-DNA and stable isotope analysis of the bones. The study of the burial dataset provides insights into the social construction of collective memory and identity by the burying social group, whereas the habitational deposits from the building on Vigla hill establish the longevity and function of the site as a node of the southern Mesara communication and exchange networks.