| Description |
1 online resource (x, 435 pages :) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Back to the beginning for the early and middle Bronze Age on Crete / Ilse Schoep and Peter Tomkins -- Behind the horizon : reconsidering the genesis and function of the "First Palace" at Knossos (final neolithic IV-middle Minoan IB) / Peter Tomkins -- Palatial Knossos : the early years / Colin F. Macdonald -- The urbanisation of prehistoric Crete : settlement perspectives on Minoan state formation / Todd Whitelaw -- The emergence of elite groups at protopalatial Malia : a biography of Quartier Mu / Jean-Claude Poursat -- Trade and interconnections in Lasithi between EM II and MM I, the evidence from the Ayios Charalambos Cave / Philip P. Betancourt -- Craft production and social practices at prepalatial Phaistos : the background to the first "palace" / Simona Todaro -- Emerging authority : a functional analysis of the MM II settlement of phaistos / Pietro Militello -- Regional elite-groups and the production and consumption of seals in the prepalatial period : a case-study of the Asterousia region / Kostas Sbonias -- The social arenas of tradition : investigating collective and individual social strategies in the prepalatial and protopalatial Mesara / Maria Relaki -- The construction, deconstruction and non-construction of hierarchies in the funerary record of prepalatial Crete / Borja Legarra Herrero -- A matrilocal house society in pre- and protopalatial Crete? / Jan Driessen -- A regional network approach to protopalatial complexity / Carl Knappett -- Bridging the divide between the "prepalatial" and the "protopalatial" periods? / Ilse Schoep -- "Back to the beginning" : an overview / Peter Warren |
| Summary |
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 decades, however, theoretical developments, together with new research and discoveries, have so thoroughly undermined this conceptualisation of the Ear |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Bronze age -- Greece -- Crete
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Neolithic period -- Greece -- Crete
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Minoans.
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Social structure -- Greece -- Crete
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Crete
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
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Antiquities
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Bronze age
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Minoans
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Neolithic period
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Social structure
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| SUBJECT |
Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033942
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| Subject |
Greece -- Crete
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schoep, Ilse
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Tomkins, Peter
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Driessen, Jan
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| LC no. |
2011040888 |
| ISBN |
9781842176801 |
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1842176803 |
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