Excavations at Mochlos, 1992-1993

Soles, Jeffrey S.; Davaras, Costis

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“…The settlement continued to flourish until the Late Minoan IB period when it was destroyed by fire and although the cause is not known, Seager suggested that the presence of human bones in the destruction levels points out a violent attack rather than an earthquake as being responsible for its destruction. The main remains to be seen on the island today date from the LM I town (Figure 2) [18][19][20]. The second site under study is located on the islet Pseira, a couple of kilometers off the North coast of East Crete.…”

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Rapid Condition Surveys of Archaeological Excavations: Training Professionals in Two Minoan Sites on East Crete, Greece

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Over the past century, monumental architecture has been at the center of attention of heritage professionals, stakeholders, and the public. On the contrary, vernacular architecture, which constitutes the majority of our built heritage, especially at rural sites in the provinces of Greece and other Mediterranean countries, has been mostly neglected and often has fallen into disarray. As a result, we now witness the severe degradation of several important settlements, which are threatened due to long exposure to the elements and lack of conservation, maintenance, and management plans. Since 2015, the Architectural Conservation Laboratory, University of West Attica, organizes a field-training program at the Minoan sites of Mochlos and Pseira on East Crete, aimed at addressing the challenges of vernacular architecture and raising awareness. The program provides on-the-job training opportunities to heritage professionals in surveying, assessing, and documenting the condition of architectural remains and finally establishing the conservation priorities. This paper discusses the approaches and the goals of the program, as well as the potential for the integration of cost-effective digital documentation techniques, such as photogrammetry, into the systematic monitoring of archaeological sites under threat. The preliminary results of the condition survey of Pseira and the challenges in the application of image-based 3D modeling on site are also reported.

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Rapid Condition Surveys of Archaeological Excavations: Training Professionals in Two Minoan Sites on East Crete, Greece

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“…Three of these ‘ceremonial’ Double‐Axes have been found in the region. One was in house C3 at Mochlos (Soles and Davaras 1996, 194), one was in house Cg at Gournia (Boyd‐Hawes 1908, pl. XI 22) and another was in the Hill House, a rural or semi‐rural building just outside Gournia (Boyd‐Hawes 1908, pl.…”

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The Double-Axe: A Contextual Approach to the Understanding of a Cretan Symbol in the Neopalatial Period

Haysom¹

2010

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

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Summary The Double‐Axe has always been considered as one of the most important religious symbols in Minoan Crete. This paper reassesses the significance of the Double‐Axe and puts forward a new interpretation for it. It recognizes the great potential for change in symbolic meanings during the Bronze Age and seeks to understand the Double‐Axe in as narrow a period as is realistically possible by filtering out evidence from other periods. Central to the argument is the principle that the meaning of symbols is contextually dependent. It builds, therefore, a new interpretation of the Double‐Axe on the basis of as wide a range of contextual associations as possible, both within iconographic sources and in the wider material record. From these contextual associations, it suggests that in the Neopalatial period the Double‐Axe was a symbol primarily associated with a social group which exercised power in the economic, military and religious realms and that it became a solely religious symbol only later.

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“…It is by no means certain that such associations would have been universally applicable, as opposed to varying between individual communities. At present, Mochlos is one of the few eastern cemeteries where detailed anthropological studies of the human remains have been carried out, and the results there so far show no gender or age distinctions between occupants of the two larnax types (Soles and Davaras 1996). The data for pithos burials are equally mixed, with child interments, secondary interments and possibly even cremations represented 28 .…”

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“…28 28 For example, a pithos burial in Mochlos tomb 3 held a child (Löwe, 145 no. 2210), but that in tomb 16 a ‘young woman’ (Soles and Davaras 1996, 222). In the Elounda cemetery in the mid eastern region, van Effenterre (1948) records both cremations and child inhumations in the burial pithoi.…”

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Contextualising the Larnax: Tradition, Innovation and Regionalism in Coffin Use on Late Minoan Ii–iiib Crete

Preston

2004

Oxford J Archaeology

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This paper analyses coffin use in the tombs of Late Bronze Age Crete in terms of both mortuary traditions on the island and regional variations in cultural practices. It argues that the revival of coffin use in the Final and Post-palatial periods (in ceramic terms, Late Minoan II-IIIB) constituted a recourse to an earlier burial custom within negotiations of rapidly changing mortuary practices across the island. However, this 're-invention' involved significant modifications to the form and significance of the coffin. The paper then explores spatial variations in choices of coffin types, as one potential window onto the issue of intra-island regionalism in social and cultural practices.

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Excavations at Mochlos, 1992-1993

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Rapid Condition Surveys of Archaeological Excavations: Training Professionals in Two Minoan Sites on East Crete, Greece

Rapid Condition Surveys of Archaeological Excavations: Training Professionals in Two Minoan Sites on East Crete, Greece

The Double-Axe: A Contextual Approach to the Understanding of a Cretan Symbol in the Neopalatial Period

Contextualising the Larnax: Tradition, Innovation and Regionalism in Coffin Use on Late Minoan Ii–iiib Crete

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