This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. ...Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intensely physical engagement with the material traces of the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritising isolated vision and relying on the Western hierarchy of the five senses. In place of this limited view of experience, Hamilakis proposes a sensorial archaeology that can unearth the lost, suppressed, and forgotten sensory and affective modalities of humans. Using Bronze Age Crete as a case study, Hamilakis shows how sensorial memory can help us rethink questions ranging from the production of ancestral heritage to large-scale social change, and the cultural significance of monuments. Hamilakis points the way to reconstituting archaeology as a sensorial and affective multi-temporal practice.
"Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete: A Perspective from Archaeomythology and Modern Matriarchal Studies offers a very different perspective of Crete than is usually found in academic writing; making a ...compelling case for a matriarchal Bronze Age Crete. Bronze Age Crete evokes for many the image of an exceptionally sophisticated civilization: peaceful, artistic, and refined; a society in which women were highly visible and important, and the supreme deity was a Goddess. Yet, despite the fact that authorities acknowledge that the preeminent deity of Crete was a Female Divine, and that women played a major role in Cretan society, there is a gap in the scholarly literature, and a lively, ongoing debate regarding the centrality of women and the existence of matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete. The purpose of this work is to fill that gap, and to advance the debate over whether or not ancient Crete was a woman-centered and matriarchal society toward a more complex, detailed, and certain conclusion. To that end this publication utilises the field of modern matriarchal studies, with its carefully elucidated definition of the term matriarchy, and employs the methodology of archaeomythology – the use of historical, mythological, linguistic, and folkloric as well as archaeological sources. Given its scope, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields encompassed by archaeomythology, as well as the fields of women’s studies, women’s history, women’s spirituality, and modern matriarchal studies."
Au cours d'un récent voyage en Crète (Grèce), trente-trois mâles et une femelle d'une Anoxia (s. str.) Laporte de Castelnau 1832 nouvelle pour la science ont pu être capturés à Timbaki (Heraklion). ...Outre la description d’une espèce inédite, nous désignons ici le lectotype d'Anoxia (s.str.) cretica Kiesenwetter 1858 et donnons la description de la femelle, inconnue jusqu’ici. En conclusion, un tableau comparatif permettant de séparer aisément les trois espèces crétoises les plus proches morpho-anatomiquement est présenté.
During a recent trip to Crete (Greece), thirty-three males and one female of an Anoxia (s. str.) Laporte de Castelnau 1832 new to science were captured in Timbaki (Heraklion). In addition to the description of a new species, we designate here the lectotype of Anoxia (s.str.) cretica Kiesenwetter 1858 and give the description of the female, unknown until now. In conclusion a comparative table allowing to separate easily the three most morpho-anatomically similar Cretan species is presented.
Während einer kürzlichen Reise nach Kreta (Griechenland) konnten in Timbaki (Heraklion) dreiunddreißig Männchen und ein Weibchen einer für die Wissenschaft neuen Anoxia (s. str.) Laporte de Castelnau 1832 gefangen werden. Neben der Beschreibung einer neuen Art beschreiben wird hier den Lectotyp von Anoxia (s.str.) cretica Kiesenwetter 1858 und die Beschreibung des bisher unbekannten Weibchens gegeben. Abschließend ist eine Vergleichstabelle vorgestellt, anhand derer sich die drei morphologisch-anatomisch ähnlichsten kretischen Arten leicht trennen lassen.
The island of Crete was an important place for cultural and economic exchanges between Greeks and Near Easterners in the Aegean during the 1st millennium BC. Kommos and its temple provided materials ...that attest the connections between different populations, such as Greeks and Phoenicians. An examination of these objects and those from other Cretan sites such as Knossos, the Idaean Cave and Eleutherna is presented in this book. Moreover, the case of Kommos is compared to other Aegean cult structures with similar characteristics, such as the Sanctuary of Apollo in Eretria, the Heraion of Samos, the temple of Kition in Cyprus and the Temple of Vroulia in Southern Rhodes. These appear to be not just religious spaces but also economic and social meeting points, integrated into networks of commercial districts connected by land and sea routes. The book aims to understand the Phoenician presence and trade in Aegean temples, as well as how Crete shaped its role within the context of Mediterranean trade routes from the East to the West.
In Shrines in a Fluid Space, Argyri Dermitzaki offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites visited by late medieval pilgrims in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.; Readership: All ...interested in the cultic phenomena in Corfu, Strophades, the Peloponnese and Crete, in cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean and in late medieval Holy Land pilgrimage.
This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting a number of lectures given at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2010-2012 in the frame of a seminar entitled La naissance des ...cités crétoises. Eight Cretan sites (Axos, Phaistos, Prinias, Karphi, Dreros, Azoria, Praisos, and Itanos), recently excavated or re-excavated, are considered in their regional and historical context in order to explore the origin and early development of the Greek city-state on the island.
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