This annual publication contains summaries of the Mycenaean Seminar convened by the Institute of ... more This annual publication contains summaries of the Mycenaean Seminar convened by the Institute of Classical Studies. The seminar series has been running since the 1950s, when it focused largely on the exciting new research enabled by the decipherment of Linear B. The series has now evolved to cover Aegean Prehistory in general, and is well known among subject specialists throughout the world. Taken together, the summaries provide a rich resource for Aegean Prehistory, and often provide the only citable instance of new research projects, until their fuller publication becomes possible. The summaries of the seminars have been published as part of BICS since 1963. Starting with the 2015–16 series, the Mycenaean summaries will be published separately online, retaining their original character and their close connection with BICS, and becoming far more widely available as Open Access publications via the Humanities Digital Library.
Please be patient while the object screen loads. Changez de vue : Choisir un site UCL FUNDP FUSL... more Please be patient while the object screen loads. Changez de vue : Choisir un site UCL FUNDP FUSL FUCaM. ...
Recent decades have seen a transformation in the evidence for early settlement in east Crete thro... more Recent decades have seen a transformation in the evidence for early settlement in east Crete through surface survey and targeted excavation. In a recent synthesis, drawing on earlier theories and lines of argument, Nowicki has argued that just before the beginning of the Bronze Age Crete was overrun by a mass migration of settlers, originating in the east Aegean, transforming the settled landscapes of east Crete. This migration is held to have ended a long period of isolation between Crete and the outside world, stretching back into the sixth and fifth millennia BC, and to have set in train a cultural transformation that led to the emergence of Bronze Age societies. This paper reviews the empirical basis for this thesis with specific respect to chronology and its employment in the interpretation of Neolithic-EM I settlement in east Crete. The chronology developed by Nowicki to understand this period of Crete's past will be reviewed against the chronology based on the long excavated sequence from Knossos and since applied to other excavated sites across the island. Recent developments in phasing at Knossos, Kephala Petras and Phaistos will be summarised and their relevance to our understanding of Neolithic-EM I settlement in east Crete discussed.
Papadatos, Y & P. Tomkins 2011. Final Neolithic and Early Minoan pottery from the Pedhiada Survey... more Papadatos, Y & P. Tomkins 2011. Final Neolithic and Early Minoan pottery from the Pedhiada Survey. Proceedings of the 10th International Cretological Congress, 713-726. Chania: Philological Society "Chrysostomos"
This is a preiliminary account of the Final Neolithic and Early Minoan Pottery from the Pediada Survey, particularly the sites of Modhis/Anemomylos-Voni, which is dated to the end of the Neolithic, and Chostos Spilios-Amariano, which is dated to the beginning of the Early Minoan.
To be published in M. Boyd & A. Dakouri-Hild (eds.). Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Archite... more To be published in M. Boyd & A. Dakouri-Hild (eds.). Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This annual publication contains summaries of the Mycenaean Seminar convened by the Institute of ... more This annual publication contains summaries of the Mycenaean Seminar convened by the Institute of Classical Studies. The seminar series has been running since the 1950s, when it focused largely on the exciting new research enabled by the decipherment of Linear B. The series has now evolved to cover Aegean Prehistory in general, and is well known among subject specialists throughout the world. Taken together, the summaries provide a rich resource for Aegean Prehistory, and often provide the only citable instance of new research projects, until their fuller publication becomes possible. The summaries of the seminars have been published as part of BICS since 1963. Starting with the 2015–16 series, the Mycenaean summaries will be published separately online, retaining their original character and their close connection with BICS, and becoming far more widely available as Open Access publications via the Humanities Digital Library.
Please be patient while the object screen loads. Changez de vue : Choisir un site UCL FUNDP FUSL... more Please be patient while the object screen loads. Changez de vue : Choisir un site UCL FUNDP FUSL FUCaM. ...
Recent decades have seen a transformation in the evidence for early settlement in east Crete thro... more Recent decades have seen a transformation in the evidence for early settlement in east Crete through surface survey and targeted excavation. In a recent synthesis, drawing on earlier theories and lines of argument, Nowicki has argued that just before the beginning of the Bronze Age Crete was overrun by a mass migration of settlers, originating in the east Aegean, transforming the settled landscapes of east Crete. This migration is held to have ended a long period of isolation between Crete and the outside world, stretching back into the sixth and fifth millennia BC, and to have set in train a cultural transformation that led to the emergence of Bronze Age societies. This paper reviews the empirical basis for this thesis with specific respect to chronology and its employment in the interpretation of Neolithic-EM I settlement in east Crete. The chronology developed by Nowicki to understand this period of Crete's past will be reviewed against the chronology based on the long excavated sequence from Knossos and since applied to other excavated sites across the island. Recent developments in phasing at Knossos, Kephala Petras and Phaistos will be summarised and their relevance to our understanding of Neolithic-EM I settlement in east Crete discussed.
Papadatos, Y & P. Tomkins 2011. Final Neolithic and Early Minoan pottery from the Pedhiada Survey... more Papadatos, Y & P. Tomkins 2011. Final Neolithic and Early Minoan pottery from the Pedhiada Survey. Proceedings of the 10th International Cretological Congress, 713-726. Chania: Philological Society "Chrysostomos"
This is a preiliminary account of the Final Neolithic and Early Minoan Pottery from the Pediada Survey, particularly the sites of Modhis/Anemomylos-Voni, which is dated to the end of the Neolithic, and Chostos Spilios-Amariano, which is dated to the beginning of the Early Minoan.
To be published in M. Boyd & A. Dakouri-Hild (eds.). Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Archite... more To be published in M. Boyd & A. Dakouri-Hild (eds.). Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
While the ecological diversity of the Mediterranean region provided multiple dwelling possibiliti... more While the ecological diversity of the Mediterranean region provided multiple dwelling possibilities for past human groups, we have not investigated these with equal efficacy. For the Holocene research has tended to focus on complex, multi-period sites in zones where agricultural output is higher and more predictable. Such sites attract us because of their large size, high visibility and tendency to exhibit higher-end social complexity (e.g. population density, monumental architecture, markets, etc.). In contrast, much less is known about zones where agriculture was less productive or possible (e.g. highlands, deserts, wetlands, coasts). Typically research has glossed such landscapes as ‘marginal’, usually without thinking more deeply about what marginality might mean or gathering adequate data to establish how people actually lived. Consequently, we know little about how such groups subsisted and connected; how they related to others; how they were integrated within larger political-economic systems; and how this varied in timespace.
This session will bring a critical, comparative, empirical perspective to the question of marginality using case studies from the Mediterranean past. What do we really know about how ‘marginal’ groups lived? Why, and in relation to what, are they considered marginal? If marginality lies at the end of an axis of variation, what defines that axis (e.g. distance, productive output, access to resources etc.). If multiple definitions are possible, do they conflict? Are current definitions or understandings of marginality still relevant or useful? Would they have been recognizable to the people of the past and, if not, is this a problem? What alternatives might be preferable?
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This is a preiliminary account of the Final Neolithic and Early Minoan Pottery from the Pediada Survey, particularly the sites of Modhis/Anemomylos-Voni, which is dated to the end of the Neolithic, and Chostos Spilios-Amariano, which is dated to the beginning of the Early Minoan.
This is a preiliminary account of the Final Neolithic and Early Minoan Pottery from the Pediada Survey, particularly the sites of Modhis/Anemomylos-Voni, which is dated to the end of the Neolithic, and Chostos Spilios-Amariano, which is dated to the beginning of the Early Minoan.
This session will bring a critical, comparative, empirical perspective to the question of marginality using case studies from the Mediterranean past. What do we really know about how ‘marginal’ groups lived? Why, and in relation to what, are they considered marginal? If marginality lies at the end of an axis of variation, what defines that axis (e.g. distance, productive output, access to resources etc.). If multiple definitions are possible, do they conflict? Are current definitions or understandings of marginality still relevant or useful? Would they have been recognizable to the people of the past and, if not, is this a problem? What alternatives might be preferable?