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Minoans --- Bronze age --- Minoens --- Crete (Greece) --- Crète (Grèce) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- -Minoans --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Civilization --- -Antiquities --- Crète (Grèce) --- Antiquités --- Antiquities. --- Crete (Greece) - Antiquities

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This book is the third volume in the final report of the cleaning and excavations at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Vronda-located near Kavousi in eastern Crete-that were conducted between 1983 and 1992. Detailed analyses of the architecture, pottery, other finds (including figurines and stone tools), and botanical and faunal remains are presented in this volume, along with a complete history of the site and an attempt to reconstruct the social, political, and religious organization of the settlement.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Minoans --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Kavousi Region (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- E-books

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Pottery, Minoan --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Minoans --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Minoens --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Minoans. --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Minoan pottery --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Antiquities. --- Pottery, Minoan - Egypt --- Egypt - Antiquities

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This research examines 44 images of Minoan tree cult as depicted in sphragistic jewellery, portable objects and wall paintings from Late Bronze Age Crete, mainland Greece and the Cyclades. The study also compares the Aegean images with evidence for sacred trees in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Levant, Egypt and Cyprus. The purpose of this investigation is the production of new interpretations of Minoan images of tree cult. Each of the chapters of the book looks at both archaeological and iconographic evidence for tree cult. The Aegean material is, in addition, examined more deeply through the lenses of modified Lacanian psychoanalytic modelling, "new" animism, ethnographic analogy, and a Neo-Marxist hermeneutics of suspicion. It is determined that Minoan images of tree cult depict elite figures performing their intimate association with the numinous landscape through the communicative method of envisioned and enacted epiphanic ritual. The tree in such images is a physiomorphic representation of a goddess type known in the wider eastern Mediterranean associated qualities of fertility, nurturance, protection, regeneration, order and stability. The representation of this deity by elite human females in ritual performance functioned to enhance their self-representation as divinities and thus legitimise and concretise the position of elites within the hegemonic structure of Neopalatial Crete. These ideological visual messages were circulated to a wider audience through the reproduction and dispersal characteristic of the sphragistic process, resulting in Minoan elites literally stamping their authority on to the Cretan landscape and hence society.

Tree worship --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Religious articles --- Minoans --- Civilization, Minoan --- Civilization, Aegean --- Cretans --- Articles, Religious --- Objects, Religious --- Religious art objects --- Religious goods --- Religious objects --- Sacred objects --- Religion --- Prehistoric religion --- Nature worship --- Trees --- Religious aspects --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquities.