The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi / edited by Yannis Tzedakis, Holley Martlew, and Robert Arnott ; with the assistance of Andrew Sparkes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tzedakis, Yannis, editor.

Martlew, Holley, editor.

Arnott, Robert, editor.

Series:

Prehistory monographs ; 60.

Prehistory Monographs ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minoans.

Cemeteries.

History.

Armenoi Necropolis Site (Greece).

Cemeteries--Greece--History--To 1500.

Crete (Greece)--Antiquities.

Crete (Greece).

Minoans--Greece--Crete.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Crete.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Greece--Crete.

Antiquities.

Greece--Armenoi Necropolis Site.

Greece.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : INSTAP Academic Press, 2018-

Summary:

This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds. A chapter on the Linear B discovery from the necropolis is also included. The necropolis is the most important and extensive, and the only intact, cemetery that dates to Late Bronze Age III on Crete. This publication will augment our knowledge of Minoan burial practices, craft production, and religion. It will elucidate Minoans as a people: what they ate and drank, how they lived their lives, what diseases caused them suffering, and how they died.

Contents:

Volume 1. Introduction and Background: Background and History of the Excavation, by Yannis Tzedakis

Topographical Setting, by Andrew P. Gize

Site Investigations of the Necropolis and Its Environs: The Search for the Town, by Eileen Chappell and Steve Allender

Geophysical Survey 2010: The Necropolis and Town, by Peter Masters

Minoan Diagnostic Pottery from Field and Geophysical Surveys: 1992, 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2007, by Holley Martlew, Andrew Gize, and Vassiliki Kolivaki

Roman and Early Byzantine Diagnostic Pottery Recovered from Field Surveys: 2001, 2002, and 2007, by Alexandra Ariotti

Geological Setting, by Andrew Gize

Proposed Method of Tomb Construction, by Andrew Gize

The Ano Valsamanero Iron Deposit: A Potential Metal Resource for the Late Minoan III Community at Armenoi (Rethymnon), Crete, by Chloe Sherwood-Dickinson, Giles Droop, and Andrew Gize

Armenoi, Western Crete, and the Linear B Tablets from Knossos, by Louis Godart.

Notes:

Series taken from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi.

ISBN:

9781931534987

1931534985

OCLC:

1035216459