The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete write by Elpida Hadjidaki-Marder. This book was released on 2021-06-15. The Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The excavation of a Minoan shipwreck dated to 1725/1700 BC is described. The cargo includes the largest known corpus of complete and almost complete clay vessels from a single Middle Minoan IIB deposit. The transport boat provides interesting information on a society that revolved around seafaring.
Minoan Crete
Minoan Crete - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minoan Crete write by L. Vance Watrous. This book was released on 2021-03-18. Minoan Crete available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new look at the Cult of the Saints in late antiquity: Did it really dominate Christianity in late antique Rome?
The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum III
The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum III - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum III write by Philip P. Betancourt. This book was released on 2023-10-01. The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum III available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The University of Pennsylvania owns the largest collection of Minoan artifacts outside of Europe. The objects were acquired legally from the nation of Crete after it became independent from the Ottoman Empire and before its request was accepted to become a part of Greece, whose laws forbade such gifts to institutions that had sponsored archaeological expeditions. This third volume about the Cretan Collection in the Penn Museum presents the Minoan metal artifacts. They provide primary evidence for the early history of metallurgy in southeastern Europe during the second millennium B.C. This is a rich and varied assemblage of objects, with a large number of different classes. It is especially rich in items from the preliminary stages of metalwork (including oxhide ingot fragments, cut preliminary strips, and small cast strips used as early stages in the manufacture of artifacts). The study using modern techniques of examination-including scientific analyses-both documents the museum's holdings and provides new information on Minoan metalworking. Two important metallurgical techniques are documented: eutectic bonding of silver-capped rivets on daggers and "casting on" repairs to an existing object, which has not been noted previously in Minoan metalwork. The assemblage is remarkable for the light its objects shed on the history of technology.
The Missing Thread
The Missing Thread - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Missing Thread write by Daisy Dunn. This book was released on 2024-07-30. The Missing Thread available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women—whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it. In this monumental work, Dunn reconceives our understanding of the ancient world by emphasizing women's roles within it. The Missing Thread never relegates women to the sidelines and is populated with well-known names such as Cleopatra and Agrippina, as well as the likes of Achaemenid consort Atossa and Olympias, a force in Macedon. Spanning three thousand years, the story moves from Minoan Crete to Mycenaean Greece, from Lesbos to Asia Minor, from the Persian Empire to the royal court of Macedonia, and concludes with Rome and its growing empire. The women of antiquity are undeniably woven throughout the fabric of history, and in The Missing Thread they finally take center stage.
Crafting Minoanisation
Crafting Minoanisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crafting Minoanisation write by Joanne Elizabeth Cutler. This book was released on 2021-10-31. Crafting Minoanisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mid second millennium BC material record of the southern Aegean shows evidence of strong Cretan influence. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen in terms of ‘Minoanisation’, but the nature and degree of Cretan influence, and the process/processes by which it was spread and adopted, have been widely debated. This new study addresses the question of ‘Minoanisation’ through a study of the adoption of Cretan technologies in the wider southern Aegean: principally, weaving technology. By the early Late Bronze Age, Cretan-style discoid loom weights had appeared at a number of settlements across the southern Aegean. In most cases, this represents not only the adoption of a particular type of loom weight, but also the introduction of a new weaving technology: the use of the warp-weighted loom. The evidence for, and the implications of, the adoption of this new technology is examined. Drawing upon recent advances in textile experimental archaeology, the types of textiles that are likely to have been produced at a range of sites both on Crete itself and in the wider southern Aegean are discussed, and the likely nature and scale of textile production at the various settlements is assessed. A consideration of the evidence for the timing and extent of the adoption of Cretan weaving technology in the light of additional evidence for the adoption of other Cretan technologies is used to gain insight into the potential social and economic strategies engaged in by various groups across the southern Aegean, as well as the motivations that may have driven the adoption and adaptation of Cretan cultural traits and accompanying behaviors. By examining how technological skills and techniques are learned and considering possible mechanisms for the transmission of such technical knowledge and know-how, new perspectives can be proposed concerning the processes through which Cretan techniques were taken up and imitated abroad.
