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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Crete"”.
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Containing Meaning: Miniature Pottery on Bronze Age Crete
… peak sanctuaries, sacred caves, and shrines on Crete has led to their uncritical association with ritual activity, even outside of sacred areas. When miniature pots are found in domestic spaces, they are often dismissed as objects of household ritual or simple toys. Yet miniature vessels, …
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The Crete and Cretans of Euripides: Perceptions and Representations
… on Euripides’ dramatic representations of Crete, famous from myth, geography, art, literature and philosophy. This thesis will attempt to address the following key questions: how is Crete represented in the extant Euripidean plays and fragments? How consistent are such representations …
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Ceramic production and distribution in protopalatial Crete : technological, economic and social perspectives.
… the palatial site of Mallia. Other sites in East Crete, such as Gournia and Vasiliki, also share the same fine pottery styles. These patterns of ceramic stylistic regionalism have been interpreted by various scholars as evidence for an early state centred on the palatial site of Mallia. Yet basing …
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Mirambello village; a tourist development on the island of Crete in Greece.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch.
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The Origins of Writing, and its Relation to Art on Bronze Age Crete
… material culture of Early to Middle Bronze Age Crete as a context-conscious alternative to the strict and anachronistic divisions imposed by traditional models. This allows for a novel way of viewing and identifying structures of meaning embedded in otherwise familiar evidence. A comprehensive …
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Painted and decorated floors on the Greek mainland and Crete in the Bronze age
… walls of the Bronze Age palaces and mansions of Crete and Mycenae is a well known architectural feature. It is less widely known that a great many stucco floors were painted as well. This probably is because the information regarding these floors is scattered through the archaeological reports …
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The use of neural networks to help facilitate the accurate prediction of electricity demand on Crete
… for the isolated power system of the island of Crete, Greece.<br/><br/>The system was based on the use of multilayer perceptron neural networks. Data used to train and test the networks were obtained from the Public Power Corporation and span four years. These data were preprocessed using a …
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Minoan Funerary Practices During the Bronze Age: With a Study on the Introduction of Cremation to Crete
The funerary practices on Crete during the Bronze Age are very diverse in nature. Tomb architecture in the Early Minoan period is characterized by regional variations. In the Middle Minoan and Late Minoan periods the regional variations, present in the Early Minoan period, are not as palpable due …
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The role of the traditional Mediterranean diet in the development of Minoan Crete : archaeological, nutritional and biochemical evidence
… percentage of animal products, was consumed on Crete in the Minoan period, as it was up to this century. Modem clinical and biochemical research indicates that this traditional 'Mediterranean diet' offers certain nutritional and health benefits depending on the balances of the components - …
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The contribution of construction materials to the airborne radon concentrations in an underground facility
The radon concentrations within fiber crete and the native material from the U1a Complex at the Nevada Tests Site, Nye County, Nevada, were quantified and compared to each other. Gamma spectroscopy measurements resulted in an average 222Rn concentration to be 0.038 +/- 0.0011 and 0.014 +/- 0.001 Bq …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΜΥΚΗΤΟΧΛΩΡΙΔΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΗΣΟΥ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ. ΤΑΞΙΝΟΜΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΧΛΩΡΙΔΙΚΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ UREDINALES
THE RUST FLORA OF THE ISLAND OF CRETE WAS STUDIED FROM THE TAXONOMIC AND FLORISTIC POINT OF VIEW. A DETAILED MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE RUST FUNGI ATTACKINGHOSTS OF THE COMPOSITAE WITH THE LIGHT MICROSCOPE AS WELL AS WITH THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE HAS FAVORED THE SEGREGATION OF CERTAIN TAXA …
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Configurations of the Symbolism of the Bull in Early Late Bronze Age Crete: A Case Study in the Interpretation of Minoan Religion
… of the symbolism of the bull in Late Bronze Age Crete is well known. It has been the subject of many valuable studies for more than a hundred years. Only a handful of these studies have treated the search for the meaning of the bull as congruent with the wider issue of the interpretation of …
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