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Title Beyond thalassocracies : understanding processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean / edited by Evi Gorogianni, Peter Pavúk and Luca Girella
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016

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Contents Introduction: Methodological considerations / Luca Girella, Evi Gorogianni and Peter Pavúk -- The nature of Minoan and Mycenaean involvement in the northeastern Aegean / Luca Girella and Peter Pavúk -- Minoanisation, Mycenaeanisation, and mobility : a view from southwest Anatolia / Jana Mokrišová -- Discerning acculturation at Miletus : Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation / Amy Raymond, Ivonne Kaiser, Laura-Concetta Rizzotto and Julien Zurbach -- Cultural entanglements on Kos during the late Bronze Age : a comparative analysis of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation at the "Serraglio," Eleona, and Langada / Salvatore Vitale -- Melos in the middle : Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation at late Bronze Age Phylakopi / Jason W. Earle -- Neither far from Knossos nor close to Mycenae : Naxos in the middle and late Bronze Age Aegean / Andreas G. Vlachopoulos -- Keian, Kei-noanised, Kei-cenaeanised? : interregional contact and identity in Ayia Irini, Kea / Evi Gorogianni -- Adoption and adaptation in pottery production practices : investigating Cycladic community interactions through the ceramic record of the second millennium BC / Natalie Abell and Jill Hilditch -- Fashioning identity : weaving technology, dress and cultural change in the middle and late Bronze Age southern Aegean / Joanne Cutler -- Mycenaeanisation in Thessaly : a study in differential acculturation / Bryan Feuer -- Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation : a commentary / Carl Knappett -- The Mycenaeanisation process / Michael L. Galaty
Summary "Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyse 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 conceptualised 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 north-eastern Aegean islands"--From publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Civilization, Aegean.
Minoans.
Civilization, Mycenaean.
Bronze age -- Aegean Sea Region
Acculturation -- Aegean Sea Region -- History -- To 1500
Material culture -- Aegean Sea Region -- History -- To 1500
Regionalism -- Aegean Sea Region -- History -- To 1500
Social change -- Aegean Sea Region -- History -- To 1500
Social archaeology -- Aegean Sea Region
Acculturation
Antiquities
Bronze age
Civilization, Aegean
Civilization, Mycenaean
Material culture
Minoans
Regionalism
Social archaeology
Social change
SUBJECT Aegean Sea Region -- Antiquities
Subject Europe -- Aegean Sea Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gorogianni, Evi
Pavúk, Peter
Girella, Luca
LC no. 2016010558
ISBN 9781785702044
1785702041
9781785702051
178570205X
9781785702068
1785702068