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Back to the beginning : reassessing social and political complexity on Crete during the early and middle Bronze Age /

Ever since their first discovery, more than a century ago, the Minoan Palaces have dominated scholarship on the Cretan Bronze Age. Opinion long held that their first appearance, seemingly at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, marked a pivotal transformation point, during which the simple, egali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schoep, Ilse, Tomkins, Peter, Driessen, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, U.K. ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Back to the beginning for the early and middle Bronze Age on Crete / Ilse Schoep and Peter Tomkins
  • Behind the horizon : reconsidering the genesis and function of the "First Palace" at Knossos (final neolithic IV-middle Minoan IB) / Peter Tomkins
  • Palatial Knossos : the early years / Colin F. Macdonald
  • The urbanisation of prehistoric Crete : settlement perspectives on Minoan state formation / Todd Whitelaw
  • The emergence of elite groups at protopalatial Malia : a biography of Quartier Mu / Jean-Claude Poursat
  • Trade and interconnections in Lasithi between EM II and MM I, the evidence from the Ayios Charalambos Cave / Philip P. Betancourt
  • Craft production and social practices at prepalatial Phaistos : the background to the first "palace" / Simona Todaro
  • Emerging authority : a functional analysis of the MM II settlement of phaistos / Pietro Militello
  • Regional elite-groups and the production and consumption of seals in the prepalatial period : a case-study of the Asterousia region / Kostas Sbonias
  • The social arenas of tradition : investigating collective and individual social strategies in the prepalatial and protopalatial Mesara / Maria Relaki
  • The construction, deconstruction and non-construction of hierarchies in the funerary record of prepalatial Crete / Borja Legarra Herrero
  • A matrilocal house society in pre- and protopalatial Crete? / Jan Driessen
  • A regional network approach to protopalatial complexity / Carl Knappett
  • Bridging the divide between the "prepalatial" and the "protopalatial" periods? / Ilse Schoep
  • "Back to the beginning" : an overview / Peter Warren.