Synchronizing the destructions of the Mycenaean palaces / Reinhard Jung, Eleftheria Kardamaki (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jung, Reinhard, editor.

Kardamaki, Eleftheria, editor.

Series:

Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 546. Bd.

Veröffentlichungen der Mykenischen Kommission ; Bd. 36.

Denkschriften, 0029-8824 ; 546. Band

Mykenische Studien ; volume 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Mycenaean--Congresses.

Civilization, Mycenaean.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Bronze age--Greece--Congresses.

Bronze age.

Greece.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

324 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The Late Bronze Age Mycenaean palaces in southern and central Greece stood at the head of the earliest state system on the European continent. The authors, all leading scholars in Bronze Age research and often engaged in excavating the palace sites themselves, focus in their contributions on the most recent progress in pottery studies, in order to arrive at precise relative chronological dates of the destruction events. The investigated archaeological sites range from Crete in the south to the Peloponnese with the palaces of Pylos, Ayios Vasileios, Mycenae and Tiryns and further north to central Greece with the palace of Thebes, while contemporary sites on Cyprus and in Syria are taken into consideration as well. A precise chronology of those multilayered sites is a precondition for placing the administrative texts from the palace archives in a historical sequence as well as for writing the building history of the palaces themselves. Ultimately, this chronological sequence must also form the backbone of each theory seeking to explain the causes of the palace destructions and their final abandonment. The search for those historical causes is subject of this publication as well. The book contains primary data from the investigated sites - in many cases illustrating the relevant archaeological finds for the first time. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the topic and is based on the most recent archaeological excavation results."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface / Reinhard Jung, Michaela Zavadil

Introduction / Reinhard Jung, Eleftheria Kardamaki

On shaky ground: Petsas House and destruction at Mycenae in LH IIIA2 / Kim Shelton

Turning points in the ceramic sequence of the northern tip of the Lower Citadel at Tiryns / Soňa Wirghová

Kadmeia, Thebes: the pottery from a storeroom destroyed at the end of the Mycenaean Palatial Period / Eleni Andrikou

The destructions of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos and its LH IIIA predecessor as a methodological case study / Salvatore Vitale, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis

Pottery and stratigraphy at Iklaina in the 14th-13th centuries BC / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

The destruction at the Palace of Ayios Vasileios and its synchronisms / Adamantia Vasilogamvrou, Eleftheria Kardamaki, Nektarios Karadimas

The Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery in the Palatial Period / Vasco Hachtmann, Sofia Voutsaki

LM IIIB ceramic regionalism and chronological correlations with LH IIIB-C phases on the Greek mainland / Jeremy B. Rutter

The demise of the Mycenaean palaces: the need for an interpretative reset / Joseph Maran

Synchronizing palace destructions in the eastern Mediterranean / Reinhard Jung.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference organized by the editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783700188773

3700188773

OCLC:

1370538121

Publisher Number:

9783700188773