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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Mycenaean"”.
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Mycenaean Masonry Practices and Elements of Construction
… and primary elements of construction in Mycenaean architecture: foundations, terraces, rubble, and ashlar masonry, cyclopean masonry and its relation to circuit walls. Special consideration is given to conglomerate masonry in the circuit walls and the practice of corbelling. Addenda deal …
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Curating the Dead: Bodies and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials
… relations between bodies and objects in early Mycenaean burials, between 1700 and 1400 BCE on mainland Greece. It adopts an artistic approach to these burials, which treats the burial context as an intentional representation, centred around the creative actions of selection and deposition. It …
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Digital Palace of Nestor: Assessing Mycenaean Palatial Complex Construction of Socio-Political Status and Navigation Through Architecture
… techniques to gain a deeper understanding of how Mycenaeans shaped space to construct status and navigation in the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. Using a digital reconstruction of the palace ensured the most accurate experiential data by utilizing a whole, albeit virtual, version of the site. Without …
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Painted and decorated floors on the Greek mainland and Crete in the Bronze age
… of his conclusions is that the designs on the Mycenaean floors were derived from an imitation of carpets pieced together. An alternative to this conclusion is offered herein as a result of the present research: the evidence suggests that the Mycenaeans imitated the Minoan floor of inlaid …
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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
… B script and its context of use within the Mycenaean palaces. This case-study focuses in particular on two main uses of palaeography: as a means of assigning a relative chronology to Linear B texts, and as evidence for the reconstruction of the Mycenaean scribes’ administrative work and …
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The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris
… role and functioning of memory from the Mycenaean civilisation to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece before taking up a reading of the modern continental philosophical engagements with this inheritance and the question concerning the irreducible mediations which lie between us and …
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The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices: Seal Use and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Greece
… a pre-literate form of record keeping. Although Mycenaean elites used seals to control resources in the palatial political economy in the Late Bronze Age, there is no evidence that incipient elites did the same in the EH period. Nevertheless, EH society is described in neo-evolutionary terms as a …
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Objects for the Dead, Practices of the Living: Chamber tombs, burial assemblages, and social dynamics at Ialysos on Rhodes and in the islands of the south-east Aegean
… been considered as belonging to the so-called ‘Mycenaean culture’, which is said to have originated in, and spread from, the southern Greek mainland. Because of this cultural label, funerary behaviour attested in the Dodecanese has been viewed almost exclusively through reference to contemporary …
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ΠΡΟΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΗ ΘΑΣΟΣ Ι: ΤΑ ΝΕΚΡΟΤΑΦΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΙΣΜΟΥ "ΚΑΣΤΡΙ"
… IN THASOS COULD BE DATED BETWEEN THE END OF THE MYCENAEAN CIVILISATION AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE PARIAN COLONY, THASOS. (1300 B.C. - BEGINNING OF THE 7TH CENTURY B.C.).
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ΡΑΔΙΟΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΗΣΕΙΣ ΜΙΝΩΙΚΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΜΥΚΗΝΑΙΚΩΝ ΑΣΒΕΣΤΟΚΟΝΙΑΜΑΤΩΝ. ΚΡΙΤΗΡΙΟ ΑΞΙΟΠΙΣΤΙΑΣ
… RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT A LARGE PROPORTION OF MYCENAEAN MORTARS CAN BE DATED USING THE RADIOCARBON METHOD. FURTHERMORE A CLOSE STUDY OF THE MORTAR SECTIONS HAS UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERPRETING OXYGEN AND CARBON VARIATIONS. THE LATTER ARE AN IMPORTANT INDICATOR OF WHETHER A MORTAR …
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Saphira, the snake priestess : a novel, and; Minoan is not Greek : an essay
… the distinction between the Minoan and the later Mycenaean and Greek civilisations. As explained in the essay, the creative project is an historical novel, not a work of history. The first section of the essay discusses some of the novels that have appeal for the student of around fourteen years …
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Doing History with Monsters: the Sphinx, Chimera, and Centaur in Archaic and Classical Greece
… or sculpted medium from the emergence of post-Mycenaean Greek society down through late antiquity, and yet they remain understudied and underutilized in analyses of Greek culture. It is my contention that our ability to “do history” with monsters rests on some broadly accepted premises. First: …
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Making histories: nationalism, colonialism and the uses of the past on Cyprus
… about the history of Cyprus: the late Bronze Age Mycenaean ‘colonisation’; the classical period; and the folk image. These have been assessed with reference to three media used by all states in the creation and maintenance of national identities: education, the mass media; and tourism.
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Some cults of Greek goddesses and female daemons of oriental origin: especially in relation to the mythology of goddesses and demons in the Semitic world
In Chapter One we discuss the evidence for Mycenaean trade and colonisation in the Orient, and for oriental trade and colonisation in the Aegean and Greece. We begin with such subjects as archaeological artefacts, artistic motifs and styles of architecture, then consider the linguistic evidence, …
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The manufacture of Minoan metal vessels: theory and practice
… sizes of Minoan vessels and, by extension, many Mycenaean vessels were determined by the types of tools that the smiths used. This has implications for how we might interpret these vessels within the broader context of the metal-vessel traditions of other contemporary cultures. -- provided by …
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The manufacture of Minoan metal vessels: theory and practice
… sizes of Minoan vessels and, by extension, many Mycenaean vessels were determined by the types of tools that the smiths used. This has implications for how we might interpret these vessels within the broader context of the metal-vessel traditions of other contemporary cultures. -- provided by …
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