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245 10 Back to the Beginning|h[Elektronisk resurs] 
264  1 |bOxbow Books,|c2022 
300    352 sidor 
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337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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520    Ever since their first discovery, more than a century ago,
       the Minoan Palaces have dominated scholarship on the 
       Cretan Bronze Age. Opinion long held that their first 
       appearance, seemingly at the beginning of the Middle 
       Bronze Age, marked a pivotal transformation point, during 
       which the simple, egalitarian societies of the Early 
       Bronze Age were transformed into something significantly 
       more complex, hierarchical and civilised. Over the last 
       three decades, however, theoretical developments, together
       with new research and discoveries, have so thoroughly 
       undermined this conceptualisation of the Early and Middle 
       Bronze Age that it seemed advisable to go back to the 
       beginning, re-evaluate our theories and models and ask 
       anew what we really know about social and political 
       complexity on Crete from the end of the Neolithic to 
       Middle Minoan II (c.3600-1750/00 BC).  Back to the 
       Beginning  explores this theme through fifteen papers. 
       They cover both the principal central Cretan urban centres
       of Knossos, Malia and Phaistos and the smaller communities
       that lay beyond them in central and eastern Crete. Many 
       present significant new bodies of settlement and cemetery 
       data, whether recently acquired or re-interpreted from 
       older excavations. All place a clear and concerted 
       emphasis on breaking down complexity into different social
       processes and relations and building up an understanding 
       of society, from the bottom up, as a host of interacting 
       and potentially conflicting agents or scales of identity. 
       All too are concerned with addressing longstanding and 
       fundamental research questions. When, in fact, does the 
       Bronze Age begin in real terms? How did socioeconomic 
       diversity play out across the Cretan landscape? When and 
       where did the monumental Court Complexes, which convention
       terms Palaces, emerge; how did they function and how did 
       this vary? Were the Court Complexes entirely new phenomena
       or were they rooted more firmly in pre-existing traditions
       and practices? What happened in MM I and how, more 
       generally, might we frame and explain the Early and Middle
       Bronze Age in more inclusive terms? How were different 
       communities structured and how did this vary? Is it 
       appropriate to talk of urbanism and state formation during
       this period and if so, when and where? By taking us 
       significantly closer to resolving these questions,  Back 
       to the Beginning  ushers in a new era of understanding for
       the Early and Middle Bronze Age on Crete. [Elib] 
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655  4 E-böcker 
655  4 Historia 
700 1  Schoep, I.|4edt 
700 1  Tomkins, P.|4edt 
700 1  Driessen, J. M.|4edt 
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