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Minoan Crete : an introduction / L. Vance Watrous, State University of New York, Buffalo.
Van Pelt Library DF221.C8 W375 2021
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Penn Museum Library DF221.C8 W375 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watrous, Livingston Vance, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minoans--Greece--Crete.
- Minoans.
- Bronze age.
- Crete (Greece)--Antiquities.
- Crete (Greece).
- Art, Minoan.
- Bronze age--Greece--Crete.
- Crete (Greece)--Civilization.
- Antiquities.
- Civilization.
- Greece--Crete.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 231 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Along with Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant, Minoan Crete was one of the primary cultures of the prehistoric Mediterranean world. In this book, L. Vance Watrous offers an up-to-date overview of this important ancient society. Using archaeological evidence from palaces, houses, surveys, caves, and mountain shrines, he describes and traces the development of Minoan Crete from the Neolithic era through the Late Bronze Age. Watrous also presents and interprets Minoan art works in a range of media, including fresco paintings, pottery, and seals, and explains how Minoan Crete affected the culture of classical Greece"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Crete: The Island and Traditional Life
- The Island and the Environment
- Traditional Life on Crete
- 2. Crete: Land of Myth and Archaeology
- Mythic Beginnings
- Archaeology Reveals the Minoans
- A Return to Myth: Visions of Minoan Crete in the Twentieth Century
- 3. Crete Before the Palaces: Earliest Prehistory to EM II (130,000
- 2200 BC)
- Early Prehistory
- The First Settlers
- Early Minoan I: New Developments
- Early Minoan II: An International Era
- End of the Early Bronze Age
- 4. The Rise (EM III
- MM IA) and First Phase of Minoan Palatial Civilization (MM IB
- II)
- Late Prepalatial Crete, EM III
- MM IA: Recovery and Rapid Growth
- Crete during the First Palaces (Protopalatial Period)
- The End of the Protopalatial Period
- 5. The Maturity of Minoan Crete: The Second Palace Period, 1700-1450 BC (Middle Minoan III
- Late Minoan IB)
- Minoan Society
- The Minoan People and Daily Activities
- Minoan Settlements
- Village-Sized Settlements
- Myrtos/Pyrgos
- Farms
- The End of the Second Palace Period
- 6. Minoan Overseas Connections During the Second Palace Period (1700
- 1450 BC)
- Minoan Interconnections in the Aegean: The Thalassocracy of Minos?
- International Relations: Egypt and the Levant
- 7. Minoan Religion During the First and Second Palace Period
- Community/State Cult
- Sanctuaries
- Cave Shrines
- Urban Shrines
- Household Cult
- Personal Religious Beliefs
- Minoan Ideas of the Afterlife
- The Minoan Pantheon
- 8. Minoan Art in the First and Second Palatial Periods
- Introduction
- Fresco Painting
- Seals
- Stone and Metal Vases
- Clay Vases
- Jewelry
- Observations on Minoan Art and Culture
- 9. Crete at the Time of the Final Palaces (LM IIIA) and the Postpalatial Period, 1400
- 1050 BC
- Crete in LM II
- IIIA1/2, 1425
- 1360 BC
- Crete in LM IIIA2
- IIIB, 1360
- 1200 BC
- Crete in LM IIIC, 1200
- 1070 BC.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Watrous, Livingston Vance, 1943- Minoan Crete
- ISBN:
- 9781108424509
- 1108424503
- 9781108440493
- 1108440495
- OCLC:
- 1152489069
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