Title Human-animal relations in Bronze Age Crete : a history through objects / Andrew Shapland

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations Summary Archaeologists have long admired the naturalistic animal art of Minoan Crete, often explaining it in terms of religion or a love of the natural world. In this book, Andrew Shapland provides a new way of understanding animal depictions from Bronze Age Crete as the outcome of human-animal relations. Drawing on approaches from anthropology and Human-Animal Studies, he explores the stylistic development of animal depictions in different media, including frescoes, ceramics, stone vessels, seals and wall paintings, and explains them in terms of 'animal practices' such as bull-leaping, hunting, fishing and collecting. Integrating zooarchaeological finds, Shapland highlights the significance of objects and their associated human-animal relations in the history of the palaces, sanctuaries and tombs of Bronze Age Crete. His volume demonstrates how looking at animals opens up new perspectives on familiar sites such as Knossos and some of the most famous objects of this time and place Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 10, 2022) Subject Human-animal relationships -- Greece -- Crete -- History -- To 1500 Art, Minoan. Human-animal relationships in art. Animals in art. Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Crete Animal remains (Archaeology) Animals in art Antiquities Art, Minoan Human-animal relationships Human-animal relationships in art SUBJECT Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033942 Subject Greece -- Crete Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009151535 1009151533 1009174916 9781009174916

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