Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete
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Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete

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Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781316840061
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Archaeology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter One Rethinking Prepalatial Crete: Social Innovation on an Island of Persistence
  11. Chapter Two Identity and Relation through Early Cretan Glyptic
  12. Chapter Three Distance and Nearness: Fundamental Changes to the Dynamics of Seal Use in Late Prepalatial Crete
  13. Chapter Four In the Hands of the Craftsperson: Innovation and Repetition across Cretan Communities
  14. Chapter Five The Crafting of New Social Space: Relation and Incorporation in Late Prepalatial Crete
  15. Appendix Presentation of the Subgroups
  16. References
  17. Notes
  18. Index