Back to the beginning
Subtitle: reassessing social and political complexity on Crete during the early and middle Bronze Age
By: edited by Ilse Schoep, Peter Tomkins and Jan Driessen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9781842174319
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Social structure; Minoans; Bronze Age; Antiquities; Neolithic period
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Back to the beginning for the early and middle Bronze Age on Crete / Ilse Schoep and Peter Tomkins; title: Behind the horizon : reconsidering the genesis and function of the "First Palace" at Knossos (final neolithic IV-middle Minoan IB) / Peter Tomkins; title: Palatial Knossos : the early years / Colin F. Macdonald; title: The urbanisation of prehistoric Crete : settlement perspectives on Minoan state formation / Todd Whitelaw; title: The emergence of elite groups at protopalatial Malia : a biography of Quartier Mu / Jean-Claude Poursat; title: Trade and interconnections in Lasithi between EM II and MM I, the evidence from the Ayios Charalambos Cave / Philip P. Betancourt; title: Craft production and social practices at prepalatial Phaistos : the background to the first "palace" / Simona Todaro; title: Emerging authority : a functional analysis of the MM II settlement of phaistos / Pietro Militello; title: Regional elite-groups and the production and consumption of seals in the prepalatial period : a case-study of the Asterousia region / Kostas Sbonias; title: The social arenas of tradition : investigating collective and individual social strategies in the prepalatial and protopalatial Mesara / Maria Relaki; title: The construction, deconstruction and non-construction of hierarchies in the funerary record of prepalatial Crete / Borja Legarra Herrero; title: A matrilocal house society in pre- and protopalatial Crete? / Jan Driessen; title: A regional network approach to protopalatial complexity / Carl Knappett; title: Bridging the divide between the "prepalatial" and the "protopalatial" periods? / Ilse Schoep; title: "Back to the beginning" : an overview / Peter Warren.