<p>A compelling biography of the man who claimed to have uncovered the Minoan civilization in 1900 follow the dynamic English archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans to Crete where, following up on Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of Troy, he began excavating for the Minoans.</p>

Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth

Biographies & Memoirs

MacGillivray, J. A.

Historical

Hill & Wang Pub

The main aims of the research which led to the publication of this book were to place the ceramics from the first major palace period at Knossos, in a 'relative and continuous sequence, based on their immediate archaeological context'. MacGillivray reassesses much of the material assigned by Evans and Mackenzie. Extensive appendices detailing the ceramic types and provenance, with many black and white plates.

Knossos: Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (BSA Studies)

History

Ancient Civilizations

British School at Athens

When Sir Arthur Evans was establishing the chronology of the Minoan period at Knossos in the early twentieth century, Robert Carr Bosanquet and his team from the British School at Athens began to define the contemporary sequence at Palaikastro in eastern Crete. One of the aims of the recent British School excavations at Palaikastro is to refine the early excavator's results and to explore social, political and environmental change within the Cretan Bronze Age. The discovery of two wells with undisturbed layers of the LM IB to LM IIIA2 periods (the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries BC) provided a rare opportunity to study the pottery chronology and development in detail, but also to look at diet, foreign connections, and religious practices at that time. One surprise was the discovery of the remains of several dogs related to the modern Cretan Tracer Hound. Another was part of an exquisite stone vase with dolphins carved in relief.   This volume gives the first detailed template of LM IB to LM IIIA2 pottery at Palaikastro along with final reports on the wells' excavation and complete contents by members of the international team of specialists who excavate at Palaikastro.   Volume contents:  1. Introduction (L. H. Sackett, J. A. MacGillivray and J. M. Driessen); 2. Well 576: excavation and stratigraphy (S. M. Thorne); 3. Well 576: the pottery deposits and ceramic sequence (E. M. Hatzaki); 4. Well 605: Stratigraphy and Catalogue (J. A. MacGillivray); 5. The Late Minoan pottery (J. A. MacGillivray); 6. The ceramic petrography of LM III A2 conical cup fabrics (C. Doherty); The stone and terracotta finds (D. Evely); 8. The stamped seal impression on pot 251 (J. Weingarten); 9. The stone 'horns of consecration' or 'twin peaks' (J. A. MacGillivray); 10. The animal bones (S. Wall-Crowther); 11. Archaeobotanical observations (A. Sarpaki); 12. The fish remains (D. Mylonas); 13. Shells and snails (D. Reese); 14. Synthesis (L. H. Sackett and J. A. MacGillivray).

Palaikastro: Two Late Minoan Wells (BSA Supplementary Volume)

Driessen, J. M.

Sackett, L.H.

<p>Erected in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Crete's coastal cities during the Thera eruption, Building 1, with its two-storeyed ashlar façades, must have been one of the finest at Palaikastro. Two conflagrations during the LM IB period largely obscured its original function and brought down much of the ashlar masonry. This was re-used in the substantial LM II and LM IIIA re-occupation phases, which ended with the widespread, perhaps natural, destruction that affected the entire town. The building's last incarnation in LM IIIB contains the strongest evidence for ritual at its core with industrial and domestic activities in adjacent rooms in an otherwise largely abandoned coastal town</p>

Palaikastro Building 1 (BSA Supplementary Volume)

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Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth

Knossos: Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (BSA Studies)

Palaikastro: Two Late Minoan Wells (BSA Supplementary Volume)

Palaikastro Building 1 (BSA Supplementary Volume)