Product Description: The volume is comprised of the proceedings of the 14e Rencontre egeenne internationale/14th International Aegean Conference, held in Paris, at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'art (INHA), on 11-14 December 2012, on the theme PHYSIS...read more

Product Description: The subject of KOSMOS in the Aegean Bronze Age includes jewellery, costume, aesthetics, body adornment, colours, pigments, and textiles. The reason for this choice of subject was our wish to merge the textile research carried out currently at the Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Textile Research, with the major research topic of Robert Laffineur, jewellery...read more

Product Description: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Yannis HAMILAKIS: Time, Performance, and the Production of a Mnemonic Record: From Feasting to an Archaeology of Eating and Drinking FEASTS FOR THE GODS: FEASTING PRACTICES AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS; Jennifer WILSON: What Were the Women Doing While the Men Were Eating and Drinking? : The Evidence of the Frescoes; Anna SIMANDIRAKI: The Minoan Body as a Feast; Bernice JONES: Anthropomorphic Vessels at the Feast: Evidence for Dress or Ornament?; Brent DAVIS: Libation and the Minoan Feast; David COLLARD: Possible Alternatives to Alcohol: The Contextual Analysis of Poppy-shaped Jugs from Cyprus and the Aegean; Dora CONSTANTINIDIS: From Fields to Feasts: Interpreting Aegean Architecture and Iconography in Relation to Feast Preparations; Janice L...read more

Product Description: KEYNOTE LECTURE; Joseph MARAN; Seaborne Contacts between the Aegean, the Balkans and the Central Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC:; The Unfolding of the Mediterranean World THEORETICAL ISSUES; Kristian KRISTIANSEN and Thomas LARSSON; Contacts and Travels during the 2nd Millennium BC...read more

Product Description: Over eighty essays are presented in this substantial two-volume set, the proceedings of the 10th International Aegean Conference held at the Italian School of Archaeology in Athens in 2004. They demonstrate that none of the cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean existed in isolation, instead the whole area was a marketplace, operating through a sophisticated network of trade and diplomacy...read more

Product Description: Contents: Avant-propos ; Préface du Directeur de l'École française d'Athènes ; Biographie de Jean-Claude Poursat ; Bibliographie de Jean-Claude Poursat ; Abréviations bibliographiques ; Maria Andréadaki-Vlasaki, ; Cultes et divinités dans la ville minoenne de La Canée...read more

Product Description: Contents: Avant-propos ; Preface du Directeur de l'Ecole francaise d'Athenes ; Biographie de Jean-Claude Poursat ; Bibliographie de Jean-Claude Poursat ; Abreviations bibliographiques ; Maria Andreadaki-Vlasaki, ; Cultes et divinites dans la ville minoenne de La Canee...read more

Product Description: Over eighty essays are presented in this substantial two-volume set, the proceedings of the 10th International Aegean Conference held at the Italian School of Archaeology in Athens in 2004. They demonstrate that none of the cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean existed in isolation, instead the whole area was a marketplace, operating through a sophisticated network of trade and diplomacy...read more

Product Description: These thirty-two papers have been taken from General Session 11 of the XIVth UISPP Congress held at the University of Liège in 2001. They provide new archaeological and material evidence and research from across Bronze Age Europe and throw fresh light on, for example, ritual and monument construction, funerary practices, contact between regions, hoards, metallurgy, chronology and early towns...read more

Product Description: Most scholars now believe that warfare in ancient societies can only be interpreted and understood from studying a broad range of data types. This edited volume, the Actes de la 7 Rencontre égénee internationale at Liège in 1998, covers many different aspects of warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean, with forty-nine papers grouped under headings: The general context; Minoan Crete; Mycenaean Greece; Fortifications; Religious aspects; Funerary aspects; Iconography; Sources of writing and administration; Arms and armament; The war...read more

Product Description: A huge collection of fifty-seven papers from the 6th International Aegean conference held in Philadelphia 1996. A small selection of the papers is: Arts and artefacts in the shaft graves (Oliver Dickinson); Aegean art before and after the LM IB Cretan destructions ( Paul Rehak); Minoan wall-painting (Fritz Blakolmer); Minoan clay figures and figurines (George Rethemiotakis); LM III tholois and theri builders (Paolo Belli); Pottery workshops at Phaestos and Haghia Triada in the Protopalatial period (Filippo M...read more

Product Description: Twenty-four papers from the 4th International Aegean Conference in 1992, divided into four thematic areas: composition and style, artistic medium and social context, extracting meaning and motifs and themes. Contents: Ingo PINI, Towards a Standardization of Terminology...read more

Product Description: Twenty-four papers from the 4th International Aegean Conference in 1992, divided into four thematic areas: composition and style, artistic medium and social context, extracting meaning and motifs and themes. Contents: Ingo PINI, Towards a Standardization of Terminology...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the 2nd International Aegean conference at the University of Liège, 1988. Contents: Gisela WALBERG, Middle to Late Minoan : Changes in Ceramic Decoration ; Frédérique PETIT, Les rhytons minoens du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent ; Catherine KOPAKA, Les foyers fixes en Crète du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent ; Eddie MARCELIS, Quelques réflexions à propos de l'organisation de l'artisanat minoen à l'époque des premiers et des seconds palais ; Ioannis et Eveline LOUCAS, Sur le déclin des sanctuaires de sommet au Minoen récent ; Judith WEINGARTEN, Old and New Elements in the Seals and Sealings of the Temple Repository, Knossos ; John G...read more