The History of Minoan Pottery

The description for this book, The History of Minoan Pottery, will be forthcoming.

Betancourt, Philip P.

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton Univ Pr

The description for this book, The History of Minoan Pottery, will be forthcoming.

Princeton University Press

This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III). An intensive survey of the vicinity revealed other activities in the area from the Early Neolithic onwards, and placed the sites in a micro-regional context. A publication of the Minoan farmhouse will appear subsequently, but this volume stands on its own as both an overview of the project and as a detailed study of the copper smelting workshop.

The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory (Hesperia Supplement)

History

Ancient Civilizations

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The Minoan town at Gournia flourished from the Early Bronze Age until its destruction at the end of the Late Minoan IB period. It was later resettled before being abandoned again in LM IIIB. The town was substantial, with houses arranged in irregular blocks. This book presents the pottery found during Gournia's excavation in 1901, 1903 and 1904. This collection, now in The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, is the largest and most important group of Minoan objects from a single site outside of Europe.

The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Volume II: Pottery from Gournia (University Museum Monograph)

Silverman, Jean S.

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Pseira, a tiny islet near the coast of eastern Crete, has been called a priceless jewel in Crete's archaeological crown. In 1906 and 1907, the American archaeologist Richard Seager unearthed the extensive remains of a Bronze Age village on Pseira. Little was known about this site until a joint Greek-American project directed by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras returned to the island in 1985. This is the first volume in a series of final publications on the joint American-Greek archaeological excavations at Pseira in northeast Crete. The site is a seaport dating from the end of the Final Neolithic until the Late Minoan period. This volume presents a series of houses whose main period of occupation is Late Minoan IB. The architecture is constructed of stone and remarkably well preserved. The text includes detailed catalog entries, profile drawings, and stone-by-stone architectural plans.

The Minoan Buildings on the West Side of Area A (Pseira, 1)

Pseira, in northeast Crete, was a port dating from the end of the Neolithic until the Late Minoan. This, the second volume on the recent joint American-Greek archaeological excavations, reports on the new researches on building AC, the Late Minoan I shrine, first excavated in 1907, but badly recorded and then studied only for its beautiful reliefs, not its architecture. The recent excavations have paid particular attention to the architecture including the reconstruction of the wall paintings, and the textile patterns from stucco reliefs, which are reported in full in this volume.

Pseira II: Building AC (the `shrine') and Other Buildings in Area A

INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)

An examination of the life of Richard Seager is important for two reasons. First, it provides a glimpse of a character of a member of the second generation of researchers to work in Cretan archaeology and, second, Seager and his generation helped form our own preconceptions about the early history of Greece. His underlying thesis, that the Early Minoan society was the first European civilization, thus the foundation of Greek and later Western history, is considered valid today.

Richard Berry Seager: Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman

Becker, Marshall J.

Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan town and cemetery at Pseira in 1906-1907, but the work was not fully published. The Temple University excavations (1985-1994) under the direction of Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras conducted an intensive surface survey of the island. The results of the survey on the small island off the northeast coast of Crete are published in two volumes. Pseira IX presents the results from the intensive surface survey.

Pseira IX: The Pseira Island Survey, Part 2: The Intensive Surface Survey (Prehistory Monographs)

SIMPSON, Jacqueline

Davaras, Costis

Hope Simpson, Richard

The Hagia Photia Cemetery takes its name from the nearby village on the northeast coast of Crete, 5 km east of modern Siteia. This large Early Minoan burial ground with over fifteen hundred Cycladic imports was discovered in 1971. A total of 263 tombs were excavated as a rescue excavation in 1971 and 1984. Among the 1800 artefacts are some of the earliest known Cretan discoveries of several types: the grave goods come mostly from the Kampos Group, an assemblage of artefacts known mainly from the Cyclades. Similarly, the tombs represent an architectural style and a series of burial customs that are foreign to Crete but familiar from elsewhere within the Aegean. In fact, the cemetery has such close parallels from the Cyclades that it has often been regarded as a Cycladic colony. The burial contents are an extremely interesting body of evidence for the study of the formative phases of Minoan Crete.

The Hagia Photia Cemetery I: The Tomb Groups and Architecture (Prehistory Monographs)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to the Bronze Age art objects and architecture that have been uncovered on Crete, the Greek peninsula, and the Cycladic Islands. Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Aegean Bronze Age Art; 2. The Aegean Islands: The Early Bronze Age; 3. Early Minoan Crete: EM I to EM III/MM IA; 4. The Greek Peninsula in the Early Bronze Age: EH I to EH III; 5. The Minoan Palatial Periods: MM IB to LM IB; 6. The Aegean Islands: MC to LC IA; 7. The Greek Peninsula: MH to LH IIA; 8. Mycenaean Greece: LH IIB to LH III; 9. The Mycenaean Period in the Cyclades and Crete: LC II to III and LM II to III.

Introduction to Aegean Art

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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The History of Minoan Pottery

The History of Minoan Pottery

The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory (Hesperia Supplement)

The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Volume II: Pottery from Gournia (University Museum Monograph)

The Minoan Buildings on the West Side of Area A (Pseira, 1)

Pseira II: Building AC (the `shrine') and Other Buildings in Area A

Richard Berry Seager: Archaeologist and Proper Gentleman

Pseira IX: The Pseira Island Survey, Part 2: The Intensive Surface Survey (Prehistory Monographs)

The Hagia Photia Cemetery I: The Tomb Groups and Architecture (Prehistory Monographs)

Introduction to Aegean Art