Tag: Minoan

Free Download John C. McEnroe, "Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age"
English | ISBN: 0292760914 | 2010 | 220 pages | AZW3 | 10 MB
Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between history and prehistory. In this culturally dynamic context, architecture provided more than physical shelter; it embodied meaning. Architecture was a medium through which Minoans constructed their notions of social, ethnic, and historical identity: the buildings tell us about how the Minoans saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen by others.

Free Download John C. McEnroe, "Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age"
English | 2010 | pages: 220 | ISBN: 0292760914, 0292721935 | EPUB | 28,0 mb
Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of the island. Equidistant from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Minoan Crete is on the shifting conceptual border between East and West, and chronologically suspended between history and prehistory. In this culturally dynamic context, architecture provided more than physical shelter; it embodied meaning. Architecture was a medium through which Minoans constructed their notions of social, ethnic, and historical identity: the buildings tell us about how the Minoans saw themselves, and how they wanted to be seen by others.

Free Download Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda: Specialist Reports and Analyses (Prehistory Monographs) by Leslie Preston Day, Heidi M.C. Dierckx, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton
English | Institute for Aegean Prehistory | ISBN: 1931534845 | 511 pages | PDF | 53 Mb
This book is the third volume in the final report of the cleaning and excavations at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Vronda-located near Kavousi in eastern Crete-that were conducted between 1983 and 1992. The reports on the houses of the settlement in their context, with focused analyses of specific buildings, can be found in two previous volumes: Kavousi IIA (Day, Klein, and Turner 2009) and Kavousi IIB (Day and Glowacki 2012). Detailed analyses of the architecture, pottery, other finds (including figurines and stone tools), and botanical and faunal remains are presented in this third volume, along with a complete history of the site and an attempt to reconstruct the social, political, and religious organization of the settlement.