Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9780472122530
ISBN-13 : 0472122533
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Synopsis Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece by : Lisa Nevett

In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight into aspects of ancient society. An introductory section exploring the emergence and growth of theoretical approaches is followed by examinations of the potential insights these approaches provide. The authors probe some of the meanings attached to ancient objects, townscapes, and cemeteries, for those who created, and used, or inhabited them. The range of contexts stretches from the early Greek communities during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, through Athens between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE, and on into present day Turkey and the Levant during the third and second centuries BCE. The authors examine a range of practices, from the creation of individual items such as ceramic vessels and figurines, through to the construction of civic buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a range of spheres, from craft production, through civic and religious practices, to funerary ritual.

Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World

Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781316790724
ISBN-13 : 131679072X
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World by : Margaretha Kramer-Hajos

In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions between this 'provincial' coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located. Drawing on network and agency theory, two current and highly effective methodologies in prehistoric Mediterranean archaeology, Kramer-Hajos argues that the Euboean Gulf region thrived when it was part of a decentralized coastal and maritime network, and declined when it was incorporated in a highly centralized mainland-looking network. Her research and analysis contributes new insights to our understanding of the mechanics and complexity of the Bronze Age Aegean collapse.

Greek Archaeology

Greek Archaeology
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 389
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ISBN-10 : 9781405167345
ISBN-13 : 1405167343
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Greek Archaeology by : Christopher Mee

Christopher Mee presents an extensive examination of the material culture of the Greek world from its Neolithic roots in 7000 B.C. to the close of the Hellenistic period in 146 B.C. Features a unique thematic approach to the study of Greek archaeology Includes extensive use of illustrations, many of which are not commonly featured Allows for the study of a particular period of time by its chronological arrangement within each chapter

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9781108687218
ISBN-13 : 1108687210
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Ancient Greece by : David B. Small

This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small charts the rise of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations and the unique characteristics of the later classical Greeks through the lens of ancient social structure and complexity theory, opening up new ideas and perspectives on these societies. He argues that Minoan and Mycenaean institutions evolved from elaborate feasting, and that the genesis of Greek colonization was born from structural chaos in the eighth century. Small isolates distinctions between Iron Age Crete and the rest of the Greek world, focusing on important differences in social structure. His book differs from others on Ancient Greece, highlighting the perpetuation of classical Greek social structure into the middle years of the Roman Empire, and concluding with a comparison of the social structure of classical Greece to that of the classical Maya civilization.

Money, Labour and Land

Money, Labour and Land
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9781134644049
ISBN-13 : 1134644043
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Money, Labour and Land by : Paul Cartledge

Money, Labour and Land explores a wide range of case studies in the economic history of the ancient Greek world to reveal an explosion of ideas which open new pathways into the study of the economies of ancient Greece.

Traces of the Past

Traces of the Past
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780472119929
ISBN-13 : 0472119923
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Traces of the Past by : Karen Bassi

An innovative multidisciplinary study of the relationship between visual perception and temporal meaning in ancient Greek literature and history writing

Classical Archaeology of Greece

Classical Archaeology of Greece
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 0415085217
ISBN-13 : 9780415085212
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Classical Archaeology of Greece by : Michael Shanks

Classical Archaeology of Greece is for anyone who shares a fascination for the material remains of Classical Greece and wishes to understand how archaeologists have interpreted them.

Public Archaeology

Public Archaeology
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Publisher : British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Total Pages : 110
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ISBN-10 : 9781912090792
ISBN-13 : 1912090791
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Public Archaeology by : Isilay Gursu

This volume explores the relationship between archaeology and contemporary society, especially as it concerns local communities living day-to-day alongside archaeological heritage. The contributors come from a range of disciplines and offer inspiring views emerging from the marriage of archaeology with a number of other fields, such as economics, social anthropology, ethnography, public policy, oral history and tourism studies, to form the discipline of ‘public archaeology’. There is growing interest in investigating the meanings of archaeology assets and archaeological landscapes, and this volume targets these issues with case studies from Greece, Italy, Turkey and elsewhere. The book addresses both general readers and scholars with an interest in how archaeological assets affected by people’s understanding of landscape and identity. It also touches upon the roles played in these interactions by public policy, international conventions, market economies and theoretical frameworks of public archaeology.

Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries

Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries
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Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 9781784918101
ISBN-13 : 1784918105
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries by : Erica Angliker

Recent excavations and new theoretical approaches are changing our view of the Cyclades. This volume aims to share these recent developments with a broader, international audience. Essays have been carefully selected as representing some of the most important recent work and include significant previously-unpublished material.

Archaic Greece

Archaic Greece
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Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages : 479
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ISBN-10 : 9781910589588
ISBN-13 : 1910589586
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Archaic Greece by : Nick Fisher

The study of archaic Greece (c. 750-480 BC) is being transformed by exciting discoveries and interpretations. In fourteen original studies from a distinguished international cast, this book explores many aspects of a rapidly changing Greek world. Detailed re-interpretation of archaeological material reveals diversity in patterns of settlement, sanctuaries and burial practices, and shows motivations underlying the expanding exchange of goods and the settlement of new communities. Local studies of archaeology and iconography revise our image of the peculiarity of Spartan society and East Greek cult. Texts, from Homer and Hesiod to a newly-found poem of Simonides, are given fresh interpretations. And there are new studies of developments in maritime warfare, the roles of literacy and law-making in Crete, the emergence of a less violent Greek life-style, and the articulation of political thought.