Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review. . . 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
Table of Contents
- Introduction and Methodology
- Petrographic Analysis of the Pottery from Bramiana
- Coarse Cretan South Coast Fabrics
- Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 1
- Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 2: With Pellets
- Fine Cretan South Coast Fabrics 3: In-and-Out Bowls
- Granitic-Dioritic (Mirabello) Fabrics
- Metamorphic Fabrics
- Metamorphic Fabric from Palaikastro
- Ritual Vessels
- Calcite-Tempered Fabrics
- Uncommon Fabric Groups
- Ground Stone Implements
- Vitrified Clay Fragments
- Building Materials
- Other Finds
- Conclusions on the Clay Vessels and Their Fabrics
- Trade at Bramiana
- Reconstructing the History of Bramiana
- Before and After: Reconstructing the Bramiana Landscape through Historical Aerial Imagery
- Final Comments
References
Concordance
Index
Figures
Plates.
