Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi : traditions and trends in the production and consumption of storage containers in Bronze Age Crete / by Kostandinos S. Christakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christakis, Kostandinos S., 1966-

Series:

Prehistory monographs ; 18.

Prehistory monographs ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storage jars.

Pottery, Minoan.

Crete (Greece)--Antiquities.

Crete (Greece).

Pottery, Minoan--Greece--Crete.

Storage jars--Greece--Crete.

Greece--Crete.

Physical Description:

xvi, 111 pages, 98 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : INSTAP Academic Press, 2005.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 A Formal Typology For Pithoi 5

Chapter 2 Decorative Patterns and Style 23

Chapter 3 The Use of Pithoi 45

Chapter 4 Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Pithoi 71.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [89]-101) and index.

ISBN:

1931534152

OCLC:

62118373