Early Bronze Age Crete | Greek Archaeology Episode I

In this new series, I am exploring the archaeology of ancient Greece. We begin with the Early Bronze Age, focusing on the Minoan Palaces on Crete, especially Knossos, as well as the evidence for maritime trade and Cretan expansion throughout the Prehistoric Mediterranean via the Cyclades. We also touch on Ancient Troy & its wider connections with Anatolia and Mesopotamia.

Here we cover the House of Tiles at Lerna, the chronology of palaces on Crete and the development of trade networks & exchange routes across the Aegean.

Over the coming months I will explore the history & archaeology of Greece chronologically and thematically up to the Hellenistic & Roman Periods, covering major historical events and notions such as Power, Gender, Religion, Economy & Identity.

Sources & Bibliography:

Sherratt, E. S. 1990. Reading the texts: archaeology and the Homeric question, Antiquity 64, 807‑24

Bennet, J. 2013: Bronze Age Greece. In (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Oxford University Press

Manning, S.W., 1995. An approximate Minoan Bronze Age chronology. in A.B. Knapp, ed., The absolute chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: Archaeology, radiocarbon and history (Appendix 8), in series Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol. 1 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press)

Legarra Herrero, B. 2016: Primary State Formation Processes on Bronze Age Crete: A Social Approach to Change in Early Complex Societies. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 1-19.

Caskey, J L. 1960: The Early Helladic Period in the Argolid. Hesperia. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 29(3): 285–303

Massa, M; Palmisano, A. 2018: Change and continuity in the long-distance exchange networks between western/central Anatolia, northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia, c.3200–1600 BCE. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 49 pp. 65-87

The Knossos Urban Landscape Project:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/res...

Whitelaw, T, et al. 2019: Long-term urban dynamics at Knossos: the Knossos Urban Landscape project, 2005-16. Conference: 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies Volume: 12.

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