Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete
Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete

Author: Joan M. Cichon

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2022-06-30

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1803270454

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This book makes a compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. It is acknowledged that the preeminent deity was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, but there is a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women in Bronze Age Crete. a gap in the scholarly literature which this book seeks to fill.

Crete Reclaimed
Crete Reclaimed

Author: Susan Evasdaughter

Publisher: Heart of Albion

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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Between about 3000 and 1400 BC one of the world's great civilizations flourished on the island of Crete. The distinctive characteristic of this civilization was that it was dominated by an elite of women.

Minoans
Minoans

Author: Rodney Castleden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1134880642

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Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete. Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant, graceful and sophisticated, these nature lovers lived in harmony with their neighbours, while their fleets ruled the seas around Crete. This, at least, is the popular view of the Minoans. But how far does the later work of archaeologists in Crete support this view? Drawing on his experience of being actively involved in research on landscapes processes and prehistory for the last twenty years, Castleden writes clearly and accessibly to provide a text essential to the study of this fascinating subject.

The Minoans
The Minoans

Author: Sinclair Hood

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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"The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BCE to the 15th century BCE. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of British archaeologist Arthur Evans."--Wikipedia.

Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete
Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete

Author: Emily S. K. Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 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.

Parallels and Affinities Between Crete and India in the Bronze Age
Parallels and Affinities Between Crete and India in the Bronze Age

Author: Kōstēs Davaras

Publisher: Adolf M. Hakkert

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 268

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Costis Davaras is not the first scholar to compare the Bronze Age cultures of Crete and India. Prompted by an invitation to attend the World Archaeological Congress in New Delhi in 1994, he takes an eclectic look at parallels and affinities' between the two cultures, especially with regard to art and religion. With no physical or factual evidence that Cretans, or Cretan objects, ever reached this far into Asia, Davaras' suggestions are purely hypothetical and at best speculative, but they may achieve some heightened understanding of aspects of either culture. The fact that these are two cultures at the geographical extremes of the same Oriental cultural continuum' may not convince everyone that they remain worthy of comparison.

Bronzeworking on Late Minoan Crete
Bronzeworking on Late Minoan Crete

Author: Lena Hakulin

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 146

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Bronzeworking was an important industry in the late Bronze Age Aegean and this thesis draws on a large database of material related to Late Minoan bronze objects, raw materials, evidence for workshops and so on.

Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi
Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi

Author: Kostandinos S. Christakis

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Published: 2005-12-31

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1623030781

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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.