The emergence of Aegean prehistory / Andrew Shapland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapland, Andrew, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Aegean Bronze Age, 2754-2998.

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Aegean Bronze Age , 2754-2998

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Aegean.

Bronze age--Aegean Sea Region.

Bronze age.

Aegean Sea Region--Antiquities.

Aegean Sea Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This Element focusses on the emergence of Aegean Prehistory as a discipline, starting with the first recorded encounters with prehistoric monuments and artefacts and ending with the decipherment of Linear B in 1952. It broadens the history of Aegean Bronze Age archaeology as told in popular accounts as a series of excavations of great men, particularly Heinrich Schliemann at Troy and Mycenae and Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos. Though their work is of fundamental importance for the discipline, here it is placed within wider political, institutional and intellectual frameworks. This Element also provides an overview of the work of many other archaeologists across the Aegean and the regional and historical context in which they operated. It provides a brief but comprehensive history of the formative stages of the study of Aegean Prehistory.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

The Emergence of Aegean Prehistory

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Biographical Framework

3 Intellectual Context

4 Political and Institutional History of Archaeology in the Aegean

4.1 Ottoman Empire and Turkey

4.2 Greece

5 History of Archaeological Research in the Aegean

5.1 Troad

5.2 Dodecanese

5.3 Peloponnese and Central Greece

5.4 Cycladic Islands

5.5 Ionian Islands

5.6 Thessaly

5.7 Northern Greece and the Islands of the Northern Aegean

5.8 Crete

6 Broadening Aegean Prehistory

References

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-34286-X

1-009-34287-8

1-009-34288-6

OCLC:

1574117514