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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136600003321

Autore

Anderson Emily S. K.

Titolo

Seals, craft, and community in Bronze Age Crete / / Emily S.K. Anderson, Johns Hopkins University [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-316-83908-7

1-316-83992-3

1-316-84006-9

1-107-57897-3

1-316-44307-8

1-316-84020-4

1-316-84076-X

1-316-84034-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

SOC003000

Disciplina

939/.1801

Soggetti

Bronze age - Greece - Crete

Minoans - Greece - Crete

Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Crete

Material culture - Greece - Crete - History - To 1500

Seals (Numismatics) - Greece - Crete - History - To 1500

Artisans - Greece - Crete - History - To 1500

Community life - Greece - Crete - History - To 1500

Social change - Greece - Crete - History - To 1500

Social archaeology - Greece - Crete

Crete (Greece) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Rethinking prepalatial Crete : social innovation on an island of persistence -- 2. Identity and relation through early Cretan glyptic -- 3. Distance and nearness : fundamental changes to the dynamics of seal use in late prepalatial Crete -- 4. In the hands of the craftsperson : innovation and repetition across Cretan communities -- 5. The crafting



of new social space : relation and incorporation in late prepalatial Crete -- Appendix: Presentation of subgroups.

Sommario/riassunto

Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island altered monumentally. Emily Anderson turns light on the moment just before the palaces, recognizing it as a remarkably vibrant phase of socio-cultural innovation. Exploring the role of craftspersons, travelers and powerful objects, she argues that social change resulted from creative work that forged connections at new scales and in novel ways. This study focuses on an extraordinary corpus of sealstones which have been excavated across Crete. Fashioned of imported ivory and engraved with images of dashing lions, these distinctive objects linked the identities of their distant owners. Anderson argues that it was the repeated but pioneering actions of such diverse figures, people and objects alike, that dramatically changed the shape of social life in the Aegean at the turn of the second millennium BCE.