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Oxbow says: There is no doubting that this is an important collection of studies by some of the foremost scholars in Aegean and Mediterranean archaeology and classical studies. The thirty papers were presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in 2005, to mark his retirement from his post at the University of Durham. They cover a wide range of topics including four papers on survey and settlement from the likes of John Bintliff and Todd Whitelaw, three on the environment and landscape, four on the Mycenaeans including papers by John Bennet and Elizabeth French, two on architecture, three on administration and the economy, four on iconography and symbolism including a paper by Sue Sherratt, three on ritual and cult and four on the subject of contacts and exchange. Three appreciations to Dickinson by Hector Catling, Anthony Snodgrass, and N Claire Loader and Stuart Dunn open the volume.

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Author:   Anastasia Dakouri-Hild ,  Susan Sherratt
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   No. 1432
Weight:   1.360kg
ISBN:  

9781841718682

ISBN 10:   1841718688
Pages:   341
Publication Date:   15 November 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors: (Appreciations) HECTOR CATLING: The origins of Oliver Dickinson; ANTHONY SNODGRASS: Oliver, a view from the field; CLAIRE LOADER & STUART DUNN: Oliver, the teacher (Survey and Settlement) JOHN BINTLIFF: Parallels and contrasts in the settlement patterns of prehistoric Greece; WILLIAM CAVANAGH & CHRISTOPHER MEE: Reflections on Neolithic Laconia; TODD WHITELAW: A tale of three cities: chronology and Minoanisation at Phylakopi in Melos; CYPRIAN BROODBANK, EVANGELIA KIRIATZI & JEREMY RUTTER From pharaoh's feet to the slave-women of Pylos? The history and cultural dynamics of Kythera in the Third Palace period (Environment and Landscape) STURT MANNING: Simulation and the date of the Thera eruption: outlining what we do and do not know from radiocarbon; STUART DUNN: From Juktas to Thera: people and their environment in Middle and Late Minoan Crete; JENNIFER MOODY: 'Drought and the decline of Mycenae' updated ('Mycenaeans' in the Making) SOFIA VOUTSAKI: Social and cultural change in the Middle Helladic period: presentation of a new project; JOHN BENNET & IOANNIS GALANAKIS: Parallels and contrasts: early Mycenaean mortuary traditions in Messenia and Laconia; GULLÖG NORDQUIST & ANNE INGVARSSON-SUNDSTRÖM: Live hard,die young: Middle and early Late Helladic mortuary remains of children from the Argolid in social context; ELIZABETH FRENCH & KIM SHELTON: Early palatial Mycenae (Architecture) JOHN YOUNGER: Some similarities in Mycenaean palace plans; JAMES WRIGHT: Offsets in Mycenaean architecture (Administration and Economy) CYNTHIA W. SHELMERDINE: The world according to Perimos: a Mycenaean bureaucrat talks back; ANASTASIA DAKOURI-HILD: Breaking the mould? Production and economy in the Theban state; HEIDI DIERCKX: Ground stone implements from Crete: an overview of research (Iconography and Symbolism) SUE SHERRATT: Arthur Evans and the first of the Priest-Kings; MARIKA ZEIMBEKI: 'Nurturing the natural': a cognitive approach in the study of the Xeste 3 aquatic imagery;VASSILIS ARAVANTINOS: To have and to hoard: a gold disc from the palace of Thebes; STEFAN HILLER: The spiral as a symbol of sovereignty and power (Ritual and Cult) PAUL REHAK: The 'sphinx' head from the Cult Centre at Mycenae; KATIE DEMAKOPOULOU: A Mycenaean ritual vase from Trachones, Attica; ELENA KOUNTOURI: Ceramic stands in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: form and function with special reference to a stand from the Vlachopoulo tholos tomb in Messenia (Contacts and Exchange) ANTHONY HARDING: Horse-harnessand the origins of the Mycenaean civilization; HELEN HUGHES-BROCK: Amber and some other travellers in the Bronze Age Aegean and Europe; JACKE PHILLIPS & ERIC CLINE: Amenhotep

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