This article investigates the potential of X-radiography for identifying primary forming techniques of Cretan Bronze Age vessels. X-radiography of 95 EM III through to LM II vessels from Knossos has now demonstrated its suitability for fine, semicoarse and coarse Cretan fabrics. In several cases, it has been possible to rectify erroneous attributions based on visual inspection alone and to provide more specific details of the diversity and development of past forming techniques.Στο άρθρο αυτό εξετάζονται οι δυνατότητες της ραδιογραφίας ακτίνων-Χ στην αναγνώριση βασικών τεχνικών κατασκευής των κρητικών αγγείων της Εποχής του Χαλκού. Η ακτινογράφηση ενενήντα πέντε IIM III έως και YM II αγγείων από την Κνωσό, χρονολογούμενων από την IIM III έως την YM II, απέδειξε την καταλληλότητά της τεχνικής αυτής για την εξέταση της κρητικής λεπτής, ημιχονδροειδούς και χονδροειδούς κεραμικής. Σε αρκετές περιπτώσεις, κατέστη δυνατόν να διορθωθούν εσφαλμένα συμπεράσματα, που είχαν βασιστεί αποκλειστικά σε οπτική παρατήρηση, και να διευκρινιστούν καλύτερα συγκρεκριμενες περισσότερο οι ακριβείς λεπτομέρειες ως προς την ποικιλία και την εξέλιξη των παλαιών τεχνικών κατασκευής.
Colin Renfrew: Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974–1977. Co-edited by Neil Brodie, Christine Morris and Chris Scarre with contributions by R. L. N. Barber, John F. Cherry, Jack L. Davis, Alec Daykin, R. K. Evans, Lyvia Morgan, P. A. Mountjoy, Sarah J. Vaughan, David Williams and Nick Winder and also Allyson Shepard Bailey, William Brice, Mark Cameron, O. T. P. K. Dickinson, Elizabeth French, Clive Gamble, M. S. F. Hood, Richard E. Jones, Y. Maniatis, Jonathan H. Musgrave, Z. Stos-Gale, M. S. Tite, Dorothy and Charles Vitaliano, Todd Whitelaw and John G. Younger. London: The British School at Athens 2007. XVI, 521 S. zahlr. Textabb. u. Pläne. 62 Taf. 4°. (Suppl. 42.) 123 £.
The sea tends to shape people's lives in a myriad of practical and symbolic ways. This article argues that it is therefore unsurprising that the sea also impacted on copper workers in the southern Aegean during the Early Bronze Age. Here, the sea was an integral element of the copper production, which is characterized by movement of metal across the sea from one manufacturing stage to the next—often over considerable distances requiring lengthy absences of the workers from their home communities, making metalworkers true maritime specialists alongside the more “typical” traders, fishermen, and seafarers. The distances traveled magnified the symbolic value of the raw materials as the object's geographic distance became converted into a symbolic value-added “exotic” distance. This value was further enhanced thanks to the mastery of skills required to traverse the sea, an element very different from land and intimately associated with forgetting, disposal, and death.
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