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Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete (Hardcover)
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Seals, Craft, and Community in Bronze Age Crete (Hardcover)
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Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace'
society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on
the island altered monumentally. Emily Anderson turns light on the
moment just before the palaces, recognizing it as a remarkably
vibrant phase of socio-cultural innovation. Exploring the role of
craftspersons, travelers and powerful objects, she argues that
social change resulted from creative work that forged connections
at new scales and in novel ways. This study focuses on an
extraordinary corpus of sealstones which have been excavated across
Crete. Fashioned of imported ivory and engraved with images of
dashing lions, these distinctive objects linked the identities of
their distant owners. Anderson argues that it was the repeated but
pioneering actions of such diverse figures, people and objects
alike, that dramatically changed the shape of social life in the
Aegean at the turn of the second millennium BCE.
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