Bramiana
Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete
Thomas Brogan editor Vili Apostolakou editor Philip Betancourt editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:INSTAP Academic Press
Published:31st Dec '22
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The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices-revealing a trade network of cooking pots and other clay vessels and their contents.
. . . throws new light on the interactions and complex dynamics that characterised several regions of Crete (south coast, Mirabello, east Crete) over a large timespan (EM I-LM IB) through the combination of various analytical methods, such as the investigation of excavation data, petrography, typo-stylistic analysis, and landscape archaeology. Finally, it proves the enormous potential of employing large-scale petrographic analysis, still too often considered as an auxiliary-method; and demonstrates how this approach has provided a great deal of new knowledge from an entirely destroyed small rural site.
Dubois, Roxane, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2023.10.23
ISBN: 9781931534307
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1045g
216 pages