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Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 216 pages, weight: 1045 g, 33 illustrations in text, 19 figures, 9 plates.
  • Sērija : Prehistory Monographs
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2022
  • Izdevniecība: INSTAP Academic Press
  • ISBN-10: 1931534306
  • ISBN-13: 9781931534307
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 216 pages, weight: 1045 g, 33 illustrations in text, 19 figures, 9 plates.
  • Sērija : Prehistory Monographs
  • Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2022
  • Izdevniecība: INSTAP Academic Press
  • ISBN-10: 1931534306
  • ISBN-13: 9781931534307
"The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices-revealing a trade network of cooking pots and other clay vessels and their contents"--

This volume presents the salvage excavation of a Minoan settlement at Bramiana in southeastern Crete that was destroyed during the creation of a new system of agriculture in the 1980s. Excavation of the site provides new evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication is a test case for a highly successful new system of organizing all the pottery based on its petrography, sorting it by materials and workshop practices. The results show the existence of an unsuspected large trade network operating across hundreds of kilometers for the routine distribution of cooking pots and other clay vessels and their contents. The Minoan settlement used the lustrous and silky smooth fine ceramics invented presumably in the still undiscovered palace near modern Ierapetra; this technology would be used for the fine Mycenaean tableware of the Late Bronze Age.

The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture, and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography—sorting it by materials and workshop practices—revealing a trade network of cooking pots and other clay vessels and their contents.

Recenzijas

We can undoubtedly say that through the use of modern methodologies, appropriate resources, and a spirit of cooperation, the valiant effort to recover all useful information from the destroyed site of Bramiana has been fully successful. The volume thus stands as an indispensable model for future research that will hopefully soon fill the large gaps that still limit our knowledge of the minor sites of Bronze Age Crete.

Puglisi, Dario, American Journal of Archaeology, January 2025, vol. 129, no. 1





". . . throws new light on the interactions and complex dynamics that characterised several regions of Crete (south coast, Mirabello, east Crete) over a large timespan (EM I-LM IB) through the combination of various analytical methods, such as the investigation of excavation data, petrography, typo-stylistic analysis, and landscape archaeology. Finally, it proves the enormous potential of employing large-scale petrographic analysis, still too often considered as an auxiliary-method; and demonstrates how this approach has provided a great deal of new knowledge from an entirely destroyed small rural site."

Dubois, Roxane, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2023.10.23

List of Illustrations in the Text
vii
List of Figures
ix
List of Plates
xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
List of Abbreviations
xvii
1 Introduction and Methodology
1(12)
Vili Apostolakou
Philip P. Betancourt
Thomas M. Brogan
2 Petrographic Analysis of the Pottery from Bramiana
13(34)
Eleni Nodarou
3 Coarse Cretan South Coast Fabrics
47(6)
Philip P. Betancourt
4 Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 1
53(8)
Amie S. Gluckman
5 Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 2: With Pellets
61(4)
Amie S. Gluckman
Philip P. Betancourt
6 Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 3: In-and-Out Bowls
65(6)
Florence S.C. Hsu
7 Granitic-Dioritic (Mirabello) Fabrics
71(10)
Sydney R. Sarasin
8 Metamorphic Fabrics
81(4)
Lily Bonga
9 Metamorphic Fabric from Palaikastro
85(4)
Lily Bonga
10 Ritual Vessels
89(4)
Lily Bonga
11 Calcite-Tempered Fabrics
93(4)
Philip P. Betancourt
Eleni Nodarou
12 Uncommon Fabric Groups
97(2)
Philip P. Betancourt
13 Ground Stone Implements
99(2)
Heidi M.C. Dierckx
14 Vitrified Clay Fragments
101(2)
Antonia Stamos
Eleni Nodarou
Philip P. Betancourt
15 Building Materials
103(4)
Philip P. Betancourt
Eleni Nodarou
16 Other Finds
107(2)
Philip P. Betancourt
17 Conclusions on the Clay Vessels and Their Fabrics
109(8)
Philip P. Betancourt
18 Trade at Bramiana
117(6)
Thomas M. Brogan
19 Reconstructing the History of Bramiana
123(8)
Philip P. Betancourt
Thomas M. Brogan
20 Before and After: Reconstructing the Bramiana Landscape through Historical Aerial Imagery
131(8)
Konstantinos Chalikias
21 Final Comments
139(4)
Philip P. Betancourt
Thomas M. Brogan
References 143(12)
Concordance 155(4)
Index 159