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Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Greece), the romanticized vision of the Cretan Bronze Age as an era of peaceful prosperity on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jusseret, Simon (Editor ), Sintubin, M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, [2017]
Colección:Studies in archaeological sciences ; 5.
Temas:
Archaeology and natural disasters > Greece > Crete.
Paleoseismology > Greece > Crete.
Earthquakes > Greece > Crete > History.
Earthquake zones > Mediterranean Region > History.
Minoans > Social life and customs.
Archéologie et catastrophes naturelles > Grèce > Crète.
Paléosismologie > Grèce > Crète.
Tremblements de terre > Grèce > Crète > Histoire.
Minoens > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities
Archaeology and natural disasters
Civilization
Earthquake zones
Earthquakes
Minoans > Social life and customs
Paleoseismology
Crete (Greece) > Antiquities.
Crete (Greece) > Civilization.
Crète (Grèce) > Antiquités.
Crète (Grèce) > Civilisation.
Greece > Crete
Mediterranean Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Introduction and theoretical background
  • 1. 'In bulls doth the Earth-Shaker delight' : introduction to the volume / Jan Driessen
  • 2. Seismological issues of concern for archaeoseismology / Susan E. Hough
  • 3. Palaeoseismology / James P. McCalpin
  • 4. Archaeoseismology / Manuel Sintubin81
  • 5. Non-invasive techniques in archaeoseismology / Christoph Grützner & Thomas Wiatr
  • part 2. Geological and seismotectonic context
  • 6. The geological setting of Crete : an overview / Charalampos Fassoulas
  • 7. Earthquake sources and seismotectonics in the area of Crete / Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos
  • 8. The palaeoseismological study of capable faults on Crete / Jack Mason & Klaus Reicherter
  • part 3. Minoan archaeoseismology
  • 9. Archaeoseismological research on Minoan Crete : past and present / Simon Jusseret
  • 10. An architectural style of openness and mutability as stimulus for the development of an earthquake-resistant building technology at Akrotiri, Thera, and Minoan Crete / Clairy Palyvou
  • 11. Minoan structural systems : earthquake-resistant characteristics. The role of timber / Eleftheria Tsakanika
  • part 4. Case studies
  • 12. Evidence for three earthquakes at Mochlos in the Neopalatial period, c. 1700-1430 BC / Jeffrey S. Soles, Floyd W. McCoy & Rhonda Suka
  • 13. Punctuation in palatial prehistory : earthquakes as the stratigraphical markers of the 18th-15th centuries BC in central Crete / Colin F. Macdonald
  • 14. Man the measure : earthquakes as depositional agents in Minoan Crete / Tim Cunningham
  • part 5. Critical appraisal and conclusion
  • 15. Earthquakes and Minoan Crete : breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity / Simon Jusseret & Manuel Sintubin.

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