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Magistral guía del sitio de Cnossos en la isla de Creta, preparada por la arqueóloga Sonia di Neuhoff, publicada originalmente en 1968, y traducida a múltiples idiomas, que en una clásica descripción, resume las principales... more
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      Cretan Bronze Agearqueología del Mediterráneo
Lin. A (Norway) we-tu-na-ma-ti : εὐθυνάματι ‘(an offering) to the direct current’
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      Greek HistoryGreek LanguageCypriot ArchaeologyCyprus Studies
The art and iconography of the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete is rightly described as having a refreshing vitality with a fortunate combination of stylisation and spontaneity in which the artist is able to transform conventional... more
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      SpiritualityAltered States of ConsciousnessAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Religion and ritual in prehistory
Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static... more
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      Mediterranean prehistoryFunerary ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Greek Archaeology
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyDeath StudiesPottery (Archaeology)
In this paper the data on arsenic content of Minoan copper-based finds from various sites in Crete, collected during a program of scientific analyses sponsored by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Philadelphia, are discussed. The... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age ArchaeologyMinoan ArchaeologyCretan Bronze Age
A large corpus of metal objects comes from the Early Minoan [EM] I–Middle Minoan [MM] IIA cemetery of a Rock Shelter and house tombs. ey have been analyzed with X-ray €uorescence in order to determine their composition and give insight... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeologyEarly Bronze Age (Archaeology)
Previous work by the authors has argued for a shamanic element to Cretan Bronze Age religion. Late Minoan gold rings with engraved ritual scenes show clear af fi nities with imagery expressive of ecstatic religious experience in other... more
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      SpiritualityArchaeology of ReligionCognitive archaeologyMinoan Religion
WE / VE KO RO RU SE ME TO PE / HE 1 Ritengo personalmente che in casi particolarmente complessi come quello dei sillabari egei, in cui i documenti a disposizione sono pochi, e forme, posizione e numero dei diversi grafemi costituiscono di... more
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      Writing Systems & DeciphermentCypriot Bronze AgePalaeographyCretan Bronze Age
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      Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Minoan ArchaeologyCretan Bronze AgePurple dye production
This paper presents a study carried out on important finds from the House of the Metal Merchant in Mochlos, dated to the LM IB period (c. 1530­1430 BC). The characteristics of the pieces and the results of analyses carried out by XRF... more
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Aegean Archaeology
This doctoral dissertation presents a synthesis of research on streets and public courts in Crete during the Proto-and Neopalatial periods. Ten sites are considered: Knossos, Gournia, Malia, Mochlos, Myrtos-Pyrgos, Palaikastro, Petras,... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologySocial SciencesArchitecture
This paper presents a method for data mining archaeogenetic autosomal data. The method is applied to the widely debated topic of the origin of the Bronze Age Minoan culture that existed on the island of Crete from 5000 to 3500 years ago.... more
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      Mediterranean prehistoryArchaeogeneticsAegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Uralic Linguistics
Third millennium BC in Crete is known as Early Minoan or Prepalatial period. The highest prestige as well as the self-confidence of the the Early Minoans manifest them in the jewellery production. The materials utilised in the production... more
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Jewellery (Craft Knowledge)Early Bronze Age (Archaeology)Minoan Archaeology
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      ArchaeologyAnthropology of FoodAegean ArchaeologyCretan Bronze Age
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyArt HistoryArt
Oleksii Dovghyi's Ukrainian poetic language
Greek language of Cretan hieroglyphs
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      Ukrainian StudiesGreek EpigraphyGreek ArchaeologyAncient Greece (History)
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      Cretan Bronze AgeCretan archaeologyTholos TombsDark Ages
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      Cypriot ArchaeologyAnatolian ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Ancient History of Cyprus
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyMediterranean prehistory
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      HistoryAncient HistoryBronze Age ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
Cosmos in contemporary Ukrainian poetry by Oleksii Dovghyi
Greek gods in Cretan hieroglyphs
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      Ukrainian StudiesGreek ArchaeologyGreekGreek Myth
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Mediterranean prehistory
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      EthnoarchaeologyCeramic TechnologyPakistanAfrica (Archaeology)
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyIconographyMediterranean prehistoryGift Exchange
Among the painted pottery types in the Levant during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E., the “East Greek” class is especially conspicuous and usually assumed to have been produced in Ionia. This pottery is the subject of a... more
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      Levant PrehistoryCretan Bronze AgeCretan StudiesArchaeology of Crete
Recent excavations at Malia have revealed a new area of the town, named Pi, between the Hypostyle Crypt and the house Delta alpha, along one of the main streets of the settlement. The area of the main building, Pi alpha, suggests that it... more
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      ArchaeologyArchitectureBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
This small paper presented during a session of the Oriental Department of the Russian Academy of sciences was a brief communication aiming to work on two aspects: Connections between Cretan Linear A with Anatolia and Indo-European... more
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionMinoan ReligionCretan Bronze AgeMinoan iconography
Pre-Cristian concepts in Oleksii Dovghyi's poetry; 
Greek verbs and poetry in Cretan hieroglyphs
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      Greek LiteratureUkrainian StudiesGreek EpigraphyGreek Archaeology
This paper discusses the ceramic class known in the literature as 'Egyptianizing' amphora. In particular, it presents an overview of the evidence from Kamilari together with new unpublished material. With this additional evidence from... more
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      Egyptian ArchaeologyFunerary ArchaeologyFuneral PracticesMinoan Pottery (Ceramic Analysis)
In this paper, I intend to discuss how to interpret the notion of writing in Cretan Hieroglyphic script on different supports (i.e. seals, clay documents and vessels) more comprehensively, following a theoretical framework influenced by... more
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      Cretan Bronze AgeCretan StudiesCretan HieroglyphsAnthropology of Writing
We study the arts, crafts, buildings and technology of the Minoans with an eye seasoned by 4,000 years of civilisation. But as to what lies beyond the tomb door — on that issue we know as little as they. We create our own narratives;... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyFunerary ArchaeologyArchaeoastronomy
Colours in Ukrainian poetry by Oleksii Dovghyi; 
Greek grammatical words in Cretan hieroglyphs
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      Ukrainian StudiesGreekAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greece (History)
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Mycenaean era archaeologyAegean Archaeology
Cover image: merged aerial photograph of the Bouffo (courtesy C. Gaston) and highresolution photograph of upper right quarter of thin section S8A under XPL (courtesy B. Vandermeulen).
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      Archaeological Soil MicromorphologyMinoan ArchaeologyCretan Bronze AgeArchaeology of Crete
Remarks on the Mycenaean Name of Lyktos Lyktos (or later Lyttos) was onę of the oldest and most powerful Crętan city-states of Classical Gręęk timęs and a bitter enemy of Knossos. It was quoted by Homer in his well-known catalogue of... more
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      Cretan Bronze AgeCretan StudiesAncient Greek DialectsMycenaean Greece
Boekrecensies 2 4 13 19 28 34 37 45 Lineair-A Lineair-B archi valc/niet-archi vale ardu vale/niet-archi vale
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      History of Reading and WritingCretan Bronze AgeArchaeology of CreteLinear B
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Aegean ArchaeologyMinoan art and archaeology
Quando Michael Ventirs annunciò di aver portato a termine la sua decifrazione della lineare B, nel 1952, fu immediatamente chiaro a tutti che il metodo utilizzato dallo studioso inglese non avrebbe mai dato risultati se applicato ai... more
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      Writing Systems & DeciphermentCypriot Bronze AgePalaeographyCretan Bronze Age
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      Sumerian ReligionAncient HistoryCultural HistoryArchaeology
Topological and visual analyses in the space syntax tradition on the one hand and GIS-based spatial analyses on the other have started out on very different trajectories, not only in the scope of applications but also in their underlying... more
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      Space SyntaxArchaeological Method & TheoryArchaeological GISAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
Pacheia Ammos, July 1-2, 2017
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      RegionalismMinoan Pottery (Ceramic Analysis)Minoan ArchaeologyCretan Bronze Age
a-ma-wa-si ka-ni-ja-mi i-ja za-ki-se-nu-ti a-ta-de : *ἀμάυσι ἐξαν-ίημι υἷα δια-ξαίνοντι ἄττα-θεν
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      Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)Aegean ArchaeologyMinoan art and archaeology
a-ke-wi-de = ἀρχηίδες ‘priestesses’
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      Cypriot ArchaeologyCyprus StudiesBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
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      History of IdeasHistoriographyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)
This paper aims to apply the most recent social analysis trends to the study of military practice and to the virile ideals of Early Iron Age Crete. Particular attention will be payed to the interpretative model... more
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      Sociology of ViolenceIron Age (Archaeology)Minoan ArchaeologyCretan Bronze Age
Greek equivalents of Linear A words
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)
zu-du : ζῦθος
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      Mediterranean StudiesAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)History of the MediterraneanAegean Prehistory (Archaeology)
Lin. A a-se-tu-qi ra-o-di-ki pi-rue -ju se-sa-pa 3 (PH 2) = ἀστυ-όχῳ, λαοδίκηι / *λαο-θιγῄ, *πλωεῳ, *σέσαφᾳ
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      Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age ArchaeologyAegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology)Aegean Prehistory (Archaeology)
Variability in ceramic classes and technological practice is discussed across the range of pottery produced at or near Phaistos, Crete in Early Minoan IB. It is at this time that new shapes and surface decoration were introduced, leading... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Ceramic TechnologyArchaeological Science