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Between 2007 and 2011, the Belgian School at Athens undertook excavations on the Kefali or Buff o hill, east of the village of Sissi, on the north coast of Crete, only a few kilometres east of Malia. The project has revealed the remains of a settlement and cemetery, used during different phases of the Bronze Age (2500-1200 B.C.). This volume details the results of the 2011 campaign, the last in our first 5-year programme. The work in the different zones is described and reports on Late Minoan pottery, petrographic analysis, shells and ground stone tools are attached.

Beschaving [Minoïsche ] --- Minoans --- Minoens --- Minoïsche beschaving --- Minoïsche cultuur --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Greece --- Crete (Greece) --- Bronze age --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Sissi (Greece) --- History & Archaeology --- minoens --- Antiquité --- Grèce --- Sissi --- archéologie --- site archéologique --- fouilles --- Antiquity --- archaeology --- excavation

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From the Foundations to the Legacy seeks to examine how the developmental trajectory of a single site can offer insights into regional patterns, the importance of integrating local survey information in reconstructing general historical processes and the significance of temporal variability in the construction of space. Evaluating the general frameworks within which Minoan archaeology operates, scholars assess the usefulness of chronological horizons in understanding continuity and change and providing a critical framework for the diachronic analysis of culture, the degree to which the study of settlement patterns can reveal structural continuity through time and the political reach of territorial states. The way the power bases of Minoan society were articulated through the interplay between individual and collective social strategies is the focus of a few papers, further illustrated by in-depth considerations of the role and value of material culture from a social and technological perspective. The largest portion of discussion is devoted to mortuary practices. Some contributors focus on reassessing the significance of micro-patterns in the articulation of mortuary behavior, while others emphasize broader temporal and spatial processes that affect practices of ostentatious display in burial, all being unified under the overarching perspective provided by recent osteoarchaeological studies which throw critical light on mortuary ritual and the constitution of the social units using the cemeteries. The volume is offered in honor of Keith Branigan's remarkable contribution to the archaeology of Bronze Age Crete and the great inroads his work has made into our understanding of Minoan society. His work has profoundly influenced subsequent generations of archaeologists.

Minoans. --- Bronze age --- Crete --- Crete (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- Archäologische Stätte. --- Bronze age. --- Burial --- Burial. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Funde. --- Minoens. --- Minoische Kultur. --- Sépulture --- Tombs --- Tombs. --- Crète (Grèce) --- Greece --- Antiquités. --- Antiquities --- Minoans

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"Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyse the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1100 BC). The 14 chapters compare and contrast various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic underlying defining feature of material culture change in communities around the Aegean. This change was driven by trends manifesting themselves in the dominant palatial communities of each period of the Bronze Age. Over the past decade, our understanding of how these processes developed and functioned has changed considerably. Whereas current discussions on Minoanisation have already been informed by more recent theoretical trends, especially in material culture studies and post-colonial theory, the process of Mycenaeanisation is still very much conceptualised along traditional lines of explanation. Since these phenomena occurred in chronological sequence, it makes sense that any reappraisal of their nature and significance should target those regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting their similarities and differences. Thus, in the present volume we focus on the southern and eastern Aegean, in particular the Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the north-eastern Aegean islands"--From publisher's website.

Civilization, Aegean. --- Minoans. --- Civilization, Mycenaean. --- Mycenaean civilization --- Civilization, Aegean --- Civilization, Minoan --- Cretans --- Aegean civilization --- Aegean Sea Region --- Antiquities. --- Bronze age --- Material culture --- Social archaeology --- Civilisation égéenne --- Minoens --- Civilisation mycénienne --- Age du bronze --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- Egée, Région de la mer --- Antiquités --- Acculturation --- Social change --- History --- Antiquities --- Bronze age - Aegean Sea Region. --- Acculturation - Aegean Sea Region - History - To 1500 --- Material culture - Aegean Sea Region - History - To 1500 --- Social change - Aegean Sea Region - History - To 1500 --- Social archaeology - Aegean Sea Region --- Aegean Sea Region - Antiquities --- Regionalism