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Book SynopsisThe 27 papers in this volume harken to the themes that Jeffrey Soles has influenced during his illustrious career in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology: ancestry, burial customs, religion, trade, jewelry, the development of the Minoan settlement of Mochlos in eastern Crete, and the rise and fall of the Minoan civilization.
Table of ContentsA Life at Mochlos, Mary Ellen Carr Soles
Bibliography of Jeffrey S. Soles
PART I. THE EARLIEST HUMANS ON CRETE
A Case of Bioturbation at Damnoni Cave, Thomas F. Strasser, Miriam G. Clinton, Eleni Panagopoulou, and Panagiotis Karkanas
PART II. PREPALATIAL PERIODS
Silvery Weapons and Precious Jewelry: Early Minoan IB Metallurgy of East Crete, Susan C. Ferrence, Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, Philip P. Betancourt, and Yiannis Papadatos
New Beginnings: Occupation at Mochlos in the Early Minoan I Period, Thomas M. Brogan
and Luke Kaiser
House Tombs of the Prepalatial Period: Less House, More Tomb, Borja Legarra Herrero
Gournia, Mochlos, and Petras: Arenas for Sociopolitical Competition with Similar Beginnings but Different Ends, Metaxia Tsipopoulou
PART III. PROTOPALATIAL TO NEOPALATIAL PERIODS
What Do the Pots Say? Fine Ware Indicates Social Stratification in the Mirabello Region during Middle Minoan IIB, Georgios Doudalis
On the Wings of Birds: Reflections on the Cut Style in Minoan Glyptic, Olga Krzyszkowska
Sacred Minoan Columns? Joseph W. Shaw
Role of the Neopalatial Dagger in the Bay of Mirabello, Jesse Obert
A Reexamination of the Minoan “Sacral Knot” Motif, Ann M. Nicgorski
Possible Origins and Meaning of the Minoan Figure-of-Eight Shield, Costis Davaras
Foundation Feasts in the Minoan Palace at Gournia, Crete, R. Angus K. Smith
A Minoan Mystery Vase Type, Peter Warren
Clay Vessels and Loomweights: Tracing Southeast Aegean Connections at Neopalatial Mochlos, Jerolyn Morrison, Eleni Nodarou, and Joanne Cutler
Prestige Goods, Foreign Knowledge, and Divine Practices: Giali Obsidian from Mochlos in Context, Tristan Carter
Small but Meaningful: Beads in the Tombs around Pylos, Joanne M.A. Murphy
On the Egyptian Origins of the Minoan Sistrum, Evi Sikla
A Peak Sanctuary for Gournia, L. Vance Watrous
The Population and Depopulation of Late Minoan Crete, Malcolm H. Wiener
PART IV. POSTPALATIAL PERIODS AND IRON AGE
Minoan Stone Vases in Late Minoan IIIC Contexts, Melissa Eaby
New Thoughts on the Karphi Goddesses, Geraldine C. Gesell
Memory and Place in Early Iron Age Graves at Kavousi Vronda, Crete, Leslie Preston Day
PART V. MINOANS AND THEIR WORLD
Mochlos and Pseira: Contrasting Economic Trajectories during the Bronze Age, Philip P. Betancourt
Groundwater Geochemistry and Persistent Places of Water Ritual on Crete, Greece, Jonathan M. Flood
Minoan Harbors at Mochlos, Crete, Floyd W. McCoy and Rhonda R. Suka
Veteran and Sacred Trees in Modern and Minoan Crete, Jennifer Moody
You Can Take the Potter Out of the Plain, but You Can’t Take the Plain Out of the Potter, Peter M. Day
