The Mycenaean Settlement On Tsoungiza Hill

Author : Mary K. Dabney
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 1621390365
Total Pages : 1235 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill written by Mary K. Dabney and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 1235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel of Mycenae. Excavations there have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood at its southern end. This volume presents the results of these investigations with an unprecedented study of a small settlement's economy and society in the Mycenaean period. Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates a wide variety of general and specialist studies, the authors demonstrate how agricultural production, craft activities, and ceremonial practices integrated the inhabitants of Tsoungiza into a regional exchange system within the Bronze Age world. The volume includes contributions by P. Acheson, S. E. Allen, K. M. Forste, P. Halstead, S. M. A. Hoffmann, A. Karabatsoli, K. Kaza-Papageorgiou, B. Lis, R. Mersereau, H. Mommsen, J. B. Rutter, T. Theodoropoulou, and J. E. Tomlinson.

Author : Daniel J. Pullen
Publisher : Amer School of Classical
ISBN 13 : 9780876619223
Total Pages : 1047 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill written by Daniel J. Pullen and published by Amer School of Classical. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While 'corridor houses' like the House of the Tiles at Lerna have provoked widespread discussion about the origins of social stratification in Greece, few settlements of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3100-2000 B.C.) have been thoroughly excavated. This important study integrates the presentation and analysis of the archaeological evidence from a single settlement that flourished on Tsoungiza Hill in the Nemea Valley from the Final Neolithic until the end of the Early Helladic period. The first section details the stratigraphy, architecture, deposits, and ceramics of each of the five major periods represented. The second section contains specialist reports on all aspects of material culture including figurines and ornaments, textiles and crafts, metal analyses, chipped and ground stone, and faunal and palaeobotanical remains.

Author : Judith Weingarten
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275340
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Processions: Studies of Bronze Age Ritual and Ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl written by Judith Weingarten and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Koehl has long considered processions to have played an integral role in Aegean Bronze Age societies. Papers concentrate mainly on evidence from Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland, with additional perspectives from abroad, these geographic divisions forming the basic outline of this volume.

Author : Ilaria Caloi
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
ISBN 13 : 2875587498
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology in Crisis written by Ilaria Caloi and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workshop questioned the reliability of pottery as crisis indicator within the archaeological data set. More particularly, following the perspective of archaeological and anthropological research that assesses pottery technology as a social product, there is an interest in addressing the social and cultural aspects of technological change...

Author : Corien Wiersma
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178570222X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Change in Aegean Prehistory written by Corien Wiersma and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers that discuss social change. The main focus is on the Early Helladic III to Late Helladic I period in southern Greece, but also touches upon the surrounding islands. This specific timeframe enables us to consider how mainland societies recovered from a ‘crisis’ and how they eventually developed into the differentiated, culturally receptive and competitive social formations of the early Mycenaean period. Material changes are highlighted in the various papers, ranging from pottery and burials to domestic architecture and settlement structures, followed by discussions of how these changes relate to social change. A variety of factors is thereby considered including demographic changes, reciprocal relations and sumptuary behaviour, household organization and kin structure, age and gender divisions, internal tensions, connectivity and mobility. As such, this volume is of interest to both Aegean prehistorians as to scholars interested in social and material change. The volume consists of eight papers, preceded by an introduction and concluded by a response. The introduction gives an overview of the development of the debate on the explanation of social change in Aegean prehistory. The response places the volume in a broader context of the EH III-LH I period and the broader discussion on social change.

Author : Carl William Blegen
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zygouries written by Carl William Blegen and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 1928 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excavation ... were conducted by the American school of classical studies in two campaigns, in the spring of 1921 and in the late summer of 1922. --Pref.

Author : Soultana Maria Valamoti
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817321594
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Foods of Greece written by Soultana Maria Valamoti and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Greek archaeologist Soultana Maria Valamoti takes readers on a culinary journey in her synthesis of plant foods and culinary practices of Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece. Plant foods were the main ingredients of daily meals in prehistoric Greece and most likely of special dishes prepared for feasts and rituals. For more than thirty years, Valamoti has been analyzing a large body of archaeobotanic data that spans 7,000 years from the Neolithic to Bronze Age and that was retrieved from nearly one hundred sites in mainland Greece and the Greek islands. This book also reflects experimentation and research of ancient written sources. Her approach allows an exploration of culinary variability through time. The thousands of charred seeds identified from occupation debris correspond to minuscule time capsules. She is able to document changes from the cooking of the first farmers to the sophisticated cuisines of the elites who inhabited palaces in the first cities of Europe in the south of Greece during the Late Bronze Age. Along the way, she explains the complex processes for the addition of new ingredients (such as millet and olives), condiments, sweet tastes, and complex recipes. "Ancient Grains" also explores regional variability and diversity. Rich chapters are devoted to overviewing plantstuffs in their spatial and temporal distribution, with ritual and symbolic significance noted, and also to broader themes and practices. The main chapters are on bread/cereals, pulses, oils, fruit and nuts, fermented brews, healing foods, cooking, and identity. Valamoti also offers insight into engaging in public archaeology and provides recipes that incorporate ancient plant ingredients and connect prehistory to the present in a critical way. Finally, a thorough bibliography also includes archaeobotanical publications in Greek. Copious color and black and white photos enhance the text"--

Author : Julie Hruby
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 1785706330
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean written by Julie Hruby and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Bronze Age Aegean cooking vessels illuminate prehistoric cultures, foodways, social interactions, and communication systems. While many scholars have focused on the utility of painted fineware vessels for chronological purposes, the contributors to this volume maintain that cooking wares have the potential to answer not only chronological but also economic, political, and social questions when analysed and contrasted with assemblages from different sites or chronological periods. The text is dedicated entirely to prehistoric cooking vessels, compiles evidence from a wide range of Greek sites and incorporates new methodologies and evidence. The contributors utilise a wide variety of analytical approaches and demonstrate the impact that cooking vessels can have on the archaeological interpretation of sites and their inhabitants. These sites include major Late Bronze Age citadels and smaller settlements throughout the Aegean and surrounding Mediterranean area, including Greece, the islands, Crete, Italy, and Cyprus. In particular, contributors highlight socio-economic connections by examining the production methods, fabrics and forms of cooking vessels. Recent improvements in excavation techniques, advances in archaeological sciences, and increasing attention to socioeconomic questions make this is an opportune time to renew conversations about and explore new approaches to cooking vessels and what they can teach us.

Author : Jeffrey S. Soles
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 162303048X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mochlos IIA written by Jeffrey S. Soles and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results of excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete are presented. The stratigraphy and architecture of a total of 31 tombs and 11 houses are discussed together with a complete list of artifacts, ecofacts, and skeletal remains from each context. The cemetery remains mirror the settlement remains, and the conclusions discuss how the two sites reflect each other. Rarely in Crete are a settlement and its cemetery both preserved, and it is extremely fortunate to be able to excavate both.

Author : Christopher Witmore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351109413
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Lands written by Christopher Witmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. Following waters in search of rest through the lens of Lucretian poetics, Christopher Witmore reconstitutes an untimely mode of ambulatory writing, chorography, mindful of the challenges we all face in these precarious times. Turning on pressing concerns that arise out of object-oriented encounters, Old Lands ponders the disappearance of an agrarian world rooted in the Neolithic, the transition to urban-styles of living, and changes in communication, movement, and metabolism, while opening fresh perspectives on long-term inhabitation, changing mobilities, and appropriation through pollution. Carefully composed with those objects encountered along its varied paths, this book offers an original and wonderous account of a region in twenty-seven segments, and fulfills a longstanding ambition within archaeology to generate a polychronic narrative that stands as a complement and alternative to diachronic history. Old Lands will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and scholars of the Eastern Peloponnese. Those interested in the long-term changes in society, technology, and culture in this region will find this book captivating.