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Ancient Crete : from successful collapse to democracy's alternatives, twelfth to fifth centuries BC / Saro Wallace

By: Wallace, Saro, 1973-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xxvi, 450 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521112048; 0521112044Subject(s): City-states -- Greece -- Crete -- History | Democracy -- Greece -- Crete -- History | Social change -- Greece -- Crete -- History | Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Crete -- History | Group identity -- Greece -- Crete -- History | Material culture -- Greece -- Crete -- History | Crete (Greece) -- History -- To 67 B.C | Crete (Greece) -- Politics and government | Crete (Greece) -- Social conditions | Crete (Greece) -- AntiquitiesLOC classification: DF261.C8 | W35 2010
Contents:
Introduction -- Method and structure -- Text perspectives -- Chronology, terminology, and dating methods -- The Late Bronze Age Cretan landscape and its use -- The broader framework: strategies of landscape use by the LBA-EIA transition -- Approaches to studying collapse: explanation and characterisation -- Settlement pattern in Crete -- Subsistence in the new settlement environment -- Settlement change outside Crete: islands and peninsulas -- Mainland central Greece: settlement priorities during and after collapse -- Constructing post-collapse society: inside Cretan settlements, circa 1200-1000 BC -- Focus on ceremonial and ritual practice within settlements -- Beyond settlements: the changing cultural landscape -- Mortuary space and practice in Crete and other areas -- The structure of collapse in Crete -- Introduction -- Long-distance contacts before and after the collapse horizon, circa 1300-1000 BC -- The social role of exotica -- Exchange structure inside post-collapse Crete -- Lift-off: east Mediterranean trade and the central Aegean from the tenth century -- Nothing to declare? Crete in the tenth through eighth centuries -- Modes and routes of exchange within Crete in the later EIA -- Crete's membership in the 'orientalising' and colonial worlds from the seventh century -- Main source of evidence discussed -- Settlement patterns (I): the nucleation phenomenon -- Settlement patterns (2): small sites, small-group identity, and trade -- Subsistence and land use in the expanding Cretan polities -- Inside settlements -- The mortuary record -- The ritual landscape and the construction of political identity -- The early Archaic horizon: correlates of state consolidation in the archaeological record -- The polis as place and as concept in Crete -- The value of 'classic' state formation models for PG-EA Crete, viewed in its Mediterranean context -- Introduction -- Special aspects of the Archaic to classical Cretan polis -- Cretan identities in historical perspective -- Serfdom and slavery in the construction of late Archaic to classical society: comparisons between Crete and other Aegean areas -- The public feasting tradition and its political significance in Crete and other areas -- A final comparison: democracy and its alternatives in the Aegean world
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-445) and index

Introduction -- Method and structure -- Text perspectives -- Chronology, terminology, and dating methods -- The Late Bronze Age Cretan landscape and its use -- The broader framework: strategies of landscape use by the LBA-EIA transition -- Approaches to studying collapse: explanation and characterisation -- Settlement pattern in Crete -- Subsistence in the new settlement environment -- Settlement change outside Crete: islands and peninsulas -- Mainland central Greece: settlement priorities during and after collapse -- Constructing post-collapse society: inside Cretan settlements, circa 1200-1000 BC -- Focus on ceremonial and ritual practice within settlements -- Beyond settlements: the changing cultural landscape -- Mortuary space and practice in Crete and other areas -- The structure of collapse in Crete -- Introduction -- Long-distance contacts before and after the collapse horizon, circa 1300-1000 BC -- The social role of exotica -- Exchange structure inside post-collapse Crete -- Lift-off: east Mediterranean trade and the central Aegean from the tenth century -- Nothing to declare? Crete in the tenth through eighth centuries -- Modes and routes of exchange within Crete in the later EIA -- Crete's membership in the 'orientalising' and colonial worlds from the seventh century -- Main source of evidence discussed -- Settlement patterns (I): the nucleation phenomenon -- Settlement patterns (2): small sites, small-group identity, and trade -- Subsistence and land use in the expanding Cretan polities -- Inside settlements -- The mortuary record -- The ritual landscape and the construction of political identity -- The early Archaic horizon: correlates of state consolidation in the archaeological record -- The polis as place and as concept in Crete -- The value of 'classic' state formation models for PG-EA Crete, viewed in its Mediterranean context -- Introduction -- Special aspects of the Archaic to classical Cretan polis -- Cretan identities in historical perspective -- Serfdom and slavery in the construction of late Archaic to classical society: comparisons between Crete and other Aegean areas -- The public feasting tradition and its political significance in Crete and other areas -- A final comparison: democracy and its alternatives in the Aegean world