Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

Driessen, Jan

doi:10.15184/aqy.2021.30

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“…There is quite some uncertainty as to different interpretations of Knossos and other palaces, which in part illustrates their enigmatic (or unfamiliar) nature. Minoan palaces were arguably at least communal ceremonial buildings, but their exact sociopolitical role is subject to debate and not tackled here (see e.g., various contributions in Driessen et al, 2002;Driessen, 2018;Schoep, 2010;Soar, 2014). Different (groups of) people possibly used and experienced Knossos differently and had varying access to palatial spaces, but very little is known about that with any certainty.…”

Section: Knossos Crete and The Labyrinthmentioning

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Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete

Herva,

Rapakko

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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This article employs the labyrinth as an analytical and interpretive tool for thinking about Minoan architectural and especially palatial space with a particular focus on Knossos. Whether or not Minoan ruins inspired later Greek mythical narratives, Knossos can be examined as a kind of a labyrinth towards developing new perspectives on Knossos as an experienced environment and how it was entangled with broader cultural and cosmological ideas. A labyrinth perspective enables bringing together multiple spatial, material and cultural forms for the heuristic purposes of exploring palatial space in relation to how the environment and world were perceived in Minoan Crete. Knossos afforded participants a mystical experience that provided glimpses of, or openings into, different dimensions of a layered reality—the richness of the world extending beyond the readily perceivable surface of reality—in a literally and figuratively labyrinthine experienced palatial environment.

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Section: Knossos Crete and The Labyrinthmentioning

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Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete

Herva,

Rapakko

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…A lo largo de los años fue publicando diferentes trabajos en el cual cuestiona muchos de los conceptos que tradicionalmente se habían utilizado para describir a la sociedad minoica. En este sentido, fue uno de los grandes impulsores de dejar de utilizar el término "palacio" (Driessen, 1989(Driessen, -1990(Driessen, , 2002a(Driessen, , 2002b, de analizar las diferencias entre las regiones y no centrarse solamente en las similitudes (Driessen & Macdonald, 1997) y de proponer nuevas dinámicas de interacción sociopolítica (Driessen, 2018). Para el año 2020 presenta un libro coeditado junto a Maria Relaki en el cual participan una diversidad de académicos que, en su mayoría, abordan la posibilidad de Creta se haya organizado como una sociedad de casas durante diferentes momentos de su historia.…”

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Hacia una nueva metodología para el estudio de la iconografía en sellos del período Neopalacial cretense (ca. 1700-1450 a.C.). Una aproximación desde la Historia del Arte y la Antropología Simbólica

Cano Moreno

2023

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Los estudios sobre la sociedad minoica, en general y del período Neopalacial en particular, cuentan con un problema de base: la imposibilidad de comprender los pocos registros escritos que han sobrevivido hasta el presente. Esta situación genera que muchos aspectos de la sociedad minoica tan solo se puedan plantear de modo hipotético y hace que el abundante corpus iconográfico sea la fuente principal para estudiar a esta cultura. Sin embargo, tradicionalmente se han realizado análisis literales sobre las imágenes como si éstas fueran una representación directa de la realidad. Además, cuando se trata de interpretar a la iconografía en sí misma, se suele recurrir a análisis formales y comparativos para encontrar su posible significado. Ante esto, en el siguiente trabajo se propone una nueva aproximación teórica para el estudio de los sellos minoicos utilizando un enfoque que combina la Historia del Arte desde una perspectiva semiótica y la Antropología Simbólica. El objetivo principal es comprender de manera más profunda los mecanismos de representación y los valores semióticos que pudieron haber tenido las imágenes -en este caso, las que se encuentran en sellos y sellados- en el contexto del período Neopalacial. Asimismo, esta aproximación puede ser útil no solo para este caso de estudio en particular, si no también, para analizar las formas de interacción social de las culturas antiguas en torno a las imágenes.

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“…The character and context of these projectiles attest to archery as a socially valued skill, a reflection of male hunter-warrior elites [172,173]. On Crete, however, we view the creation and performance of alternative power strategies and forms of masculinity during the Proto-and Neopalatial periods [174][175][176], with precious few projectiles known to the authors from these periods, and none of the mainland types. It is only with the arrival of Mycenean influenced social practices and/or mainlanders that we find evidence for the appearance of archers, though such personnel seem to be largely restricted to the Knossos area, as evidenced by projectiles-albeit almost exclusively of bronze-from some of the stylistically Mycenaean 'warrior graves' [177,178], and the reference to massive quantities of arrowheads on the Linear B tablets from the palace (one documents 8,640 arrows [179]).…”

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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

Carter

Kilikoglou

2022

PLoS ONE

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This paper takes a practice-based approach to the study of cultural identity, focusing on how raw material and technical choices involved in the production of quotidian tools served to both reproduce, and reflect a social group’s very way of being. We then consider the (dis)continuity of obsidian blade-making traditions from Middle–Late Bronze Age Malia (north-central Crete), i.e., before and after a period of island-wide destructions, and appearance of foreign elements believed to reflect the arrival of a population from the Greek mainland (Mycenaeans). Methodologically this involves an integrated, ‘thick description’ obsidian characterisation study to detail long-term cultural traditions, including the use of Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) to source the raw materials of 36 artifacts. The results show a significant degree of continuity in the community’s lithic traditions, suggesting that many of the innovative features at Malia can be interpreted in terms of local factions appropriating new and foreign means of social distinction, rather than wholescale changes in community composition.

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Revisiting the Minoan palaces: ritual commensality at Sissi

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Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete

Insides, outsides and the labyrinth: Knossos, palatial space and environmental perception in Minoan Crete

Hacia una nueva metodología para el estudio de la iconografía en sellos del período Neopalacial cretense (ca. 1700-1450 a.C.). Una aproximación desde la Historia del Arte y la Antropología Simbólica

Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

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