Human-animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Title | Human-animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Shapland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Animal remains (Archaeology) |
ISBN | 9781009151559 |
Archaeologists have long admired the naturalistic animal art of Minoan Crete, often explaining it in terms of religion or a love of the natural world. In this book, Andrew Shapland provides a new way of understanding animal depictions from Bronze Age Crete as the outcome of human-animal relations. Drawing on approaches from anthropology and Human-Animal Studies, he explores the stylistic development of animal depictions in different media, including frescoes, ceramics, stone vessels, seals and wall paintings, and explains them in terms of 'animal practices' such as bull-leaping, hunting, fishing and collecting. Integrating zooarchaeological finds, Shapland highlights the significance of objects and their associated human-animal relations in the history of the palaces, sanctuaries and tombs of Bronze Age Crete. His volume demonstrates how looking at animals opens up new perspectives on familiar sites such as Knossos and some of the most famous objects of this time and place.
Over the Horizon
Title | Over the Horizon PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. Shapland |
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Pages | |
Release | 2009 |
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Over the Horizon
Title | Over the Horizon PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew John Shapland |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
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Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Title | Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Shapland |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2022-05-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1009174924 |
Archaeologists have long admired the naturalistic animal art of Minoan Crete, often explaining it in terms of religion or a love of the natural world. In this book, Andrew Shapland provides a new way of understanding animal depictions from Bronze Age Crete as the outcome of human-animal relations. Drawing on approaches from anthropology and Human-Animal Studies, he explores the stylistic development of animal depictions in different media, including frescoes, ceramics, stone vessels, seals and wall paintings, and explains them in terms of 'animal practices' such as bull-leaping, hunting, fishing and collecting. Integrating zooarchaeological finds, Shapland highlights the significance of objects and their associated human-animal relations in the history of the palaces, sanctuaries and tombs of Bronze Age Crete. His volume demonstrates how looking at animals opens up new perspectives on familiar sites such as Knossos and some of the most famous objects of this time and place.
Minoan Zoomorphic Culture
Title | Minoan Zoomorphic Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Emily S. K. Anderson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2024-06-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1009452037 |
Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to life-size frescoes. In this study, Emily Anderson fundamentally rethinks the status of these zoomorphic objects. Setting aside their traditional classification as 'representations' or signs, she recognizes them as distinctively real embodiments of animals in the world. These fabricated animals-engaged with in quiet tombs, bustling harbors, and monumental palatial halls-contributed in unique ways to Bronze Age Aegean sociocultural life and affected the status of animals within people's lived experience. Some gave new substance and contour to familiar biological species, while many exotic and fantastical beasts gained physical reality only in these fabricated embodiments. As real presences, the creatures that the Minoans crafted artfully toyed with expectation and realized new dimensions within and between animalian identities.
Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
Title | Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Shapland |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2022-05-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1009151541 |
Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.
Minoan Archaeology
Title | Minoan Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Cappel |
Publisher | Presses universitaires de Louvain |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2015-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 2875583948 |
More than 100 years ago Sir Arthur Evans' spade made the first cut into the earth above the now well-known Palace at Knossos. His research saw the birth of a new discipline: Minoan Archaeology. The present volume aim to outline current trends and prospects of this scientific field.