Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi

Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Storage Containers in Bronze Age Crete

AvKostandinos S. Christakis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

The pithos is one of the most distinctive utilitarian forms of the Cretan Bronze Age ceramic repertoire. Because of its use as a storage container, a pithos is the foremost parameter for the evaluation of the economic organization of palatial and domestic sectors of Cretan Bronze Age society. The pithoi as pottery and their significance for the understanding of the Cretan Bronze Age economy has been the focus of a research project carried out from 1989 to 1999. This book is not a pithos handbook in the narrow sense, although the study offers a typological division of the data with comments on chronology and spatial distribution. It integrates stylistic considerations with broad fabric and technological observations in order to understand the production and consumption of pithoi.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-12-31
Mått:222 x 288 x 18 mm
Vikt:1 016 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Prehistory Monographs
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN:9781931534154

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Arkeologiska perioder och områden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Kostandinos S Christakis is a lecturer in the Depatrment of Primary Education, University of Rethymnon, Crete.

Recensioner i media

...landmark study opening new venues in the way we study and interpret coarse pottery.' -- The Classical Bulletin 82.2 The Classical Bulletin 82.2 This book is the first published monograph on ancient pithoi in the eastern Mediterranean.[...]Another important feature of Christakis contribution is that is examines Cretan Bronze Age pithoi from all periods (from EM I to LM IIIC), from most known sites of Crete (he draws from a large body of material [4,235 pieces])[...]...it is a landmark study opening new venues in the way we study and interpret coarse pottery.' -- The Classical Bulletin The Classical Bulletin ...this will be an essential volume in the libraries of pottery specialists of the Aegean Bronze Age, and excavators of Minoan Crete.' -- Mouseion Mouseion

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; A Formal Typology for Pithoi; Decorative Patterns and Style; The Use of Pithoi; Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Pithoi.