Cave sanctuaries in the Bronze Age Cyclades? New evidence from the island of Paros, Greece

Mavridis, Fanis

doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.97

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“…The rituals (of which little detail is known) within the cave were often performed in spaces of darkness and coolth; places sculpted with falling spires and bubbling cave formations, shimmering in pools of water. 101 These places of chiseled shadows are proto-typical of the naturalistic grottoes of Classical topomythopoeiesis: for example, Alexander Pope's description of his grotto at Twickenham in a letter to Lord Bolingbroke, may as well be of the Psychro cave on Crete:…”

Section: Bronze Age Cave Sanctuariesmentioning

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Classical topomythopoiesis: the origins of some spatial types

Prinsloo

2021

Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

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Defining Classical topomythopoiesisTopomythopoiesis is a term I propose to describe a way of landscape place-making that deliberately evokes myths. 1 To invoke John Dixon Hunt, such places 'allow ourselves to be drawn' into pre-existing 'mythological … languages '. 2 The meaning of the place is thus not authored by the designer, but emanates from a vast, fantastic and polyvalent semiotic system 3 that is disseminated through oral and written stories, and represented visually by artefacts ranging from paintings to sculptures. Both the verbal and visual incarnations of myths form a virtual landscape 4 that can be summoned by symbolic and somatic elements in the material landscape. 5

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Section: Bronze Age Cave Sanctuariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Classical topomythopoiesis: the origins of some spatial types

Prinsloo

2021

Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes

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“…New data have also emerged from recent work in the Parian caves of Kalampaki and Katafy (Mavridis 2018). Kalampaki, located on the northwestern slope of Prophitis Ilias, has yielded an assemblage of more or less well-preserved conical cups, vessels (of unidentified shape) with pierced bases, seashells and animal bone, along with traces of burning, suggestive of ritual activity; Katafy, on Mount Kavalos, has yielded an assemblage of late Middle Cycladic to early Late Cycladic pottery, some of it Cretan in origin, which includes conical cups, askoi, cups, nippled ewers, oval-mouth pithoi and Melian bowls, as well as a bronze dagger and a sealstone (Mavridis 2018: 4).…”

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Smith¹,

Vlanti²

2018

Arch. Rep.

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Newsround’ offers a platform for new data which do not appear within the specialist contributions of this year's Archaeological Reports but which nevertheless warrant emphasis, either as a result of their particular characteristics or for the contribution they make to broader archaeological narratives. This section is not intended to be exhaustive, but is designed, rather, to highlight recent discoveries in a way which complements digital content made available through Archaeology in Greece Online (https://chronique.efa.gr). The very varied nature of this material has meant that, for the most part, it has proved preferable to organize this section chronologically, although dedicated sections are provided for the inclusion of both marine archaeology and archaeological survey.

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“…In contrast, our research investigates cave use strategies on one of the smaller Aegean islands, but one with evidence for diachronic occupation and a rich cultural history. The ongoing research and preservation project of cave sites in the Cyclades by the Ephoreia of Paleoanthropology and Speleology has added new and complementary evidence for the role and importance of caves in the insular environment of the central Aegean islands (Mavridis 2018a;Mavridis, Tankosić, and Kotsonas 2018). Santorini (Thera) Island (Figure 1) is located in the southern Aegean Sea and is part of the Cyclades complex of islands.…”

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Recording Santorini’s subterranean landscapes: A noninvasive approach to the investigation of cave use strategies in insular environments

Mavridis

Trimmis

2020

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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This paper investigates cave use strategies in insular environments, focusing on a case study from Santorini (Thera) island in Greece. The paper has a two-fold aim to propose and test a methodological framework for noninvasive archaeological evaluation of cave sites and to explore the ways that people, not only on Santorini, but also on similar small islands, have engaged with caves through time. Santorini is famous today as a holiday destination; however, a large part of the island's historic landscape has disappeared. This is due to the Bronze Age volcanic eruption that covered the majority of the island with a thick layer of tuff and pumice, as well as intensive building and agricultural activity in the second half of the twentieth century, all of which have dramatically transformed the island's natural environment. Today, our accounts of the island's prehistory come from the extraordinary preservation of the Akrotiri site, and considerable knowledge gained from other locations, about the role that the island played diachronically in the history of the Aegean. We are, however, still missing valuable information about the relationship between the island's inhabitants and their environment.

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Cave sanctuaries in the Bronze Age Cyclades? New evidence from the island of Paros, Greece

Abstract: Recent research at two cave sites on the island of Paros have yielded some of the first evidence for the ritual use of caves in the Cyclades during the second millennium BC.

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Classical topomythopoiesis: the origins of some spatial types

Classical topomythopoiesis: the origins of some spatial types

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Recording Santorini’s subterranean landscapes: A noninvasive approach to the investigation of cave use strategies in insular environments

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