Beyond Thalassocracies; Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean

Gorogianni, Evi & Peter Pavuk & Luca Girella

ISBN 10: 1785702033 / ISBN 13: 9781785702037

Edité par Oxbow Books, 2016

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• Titre: Beyond Thalassocracies; Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean
• Éditeur: Oxbow Books
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1785702033
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781785702037
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyze the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1100 BC). The 14 chapters compare and contrast various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic underlying defining feature of material culture change in communities around the Aegean. This change was driven by trends manifesting themselves in the dominant palatial communities of each period of the Bronze Age. Over the past decade, our understanding of how these processes developed and functioned has changed considerably. Whereas current discussions on Minoanisation have already been informed by more recent theoretical trends, especially in material culture studies and post‐colonial theory, the process of Mycenaeanisation is still very much conceptualized along traditional lines of explanation. Since these phenomena occurred in chronological sequence, it makes sense that any reappraisal of their nature and significance should target those regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting their similarities and differences. Thus, in the present volume we focus on the southern and eastern Aegean, in particular the Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the northeastern Aegean islands.

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EVI GOROGIANNI is a Visiting College Lecturer at the University of Akron. Her research focuses on issues of cultural contact, gender, and redefinitions of identity, assessed through the lens of material culture of the Aegean islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age.

PETER PAVÚK is Associate Professor of Classical archaeology at Charles University in Prague. His research interests focus on ceramic traditions of the 2nd millennium BC in Western Anatolia, but also in the East Aegean islands, the Balkans and Central Greece. He is also interested in computer applications in archaeology and archaeological method.

LUCA GIRELLA is Associate Professor of Aegean Prehistory and Classical Archaeology at the UniNettuno University of Rome. His research interests focus on 2nd millennium Crete and the Aegean, with a special regard to Middle-Late Minoan pottery, as well as burial and funerary rituals of the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures