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Project

Archeologische exploratie van de Bronstijdnederzetting van Sissi op Kreta: een studie van Minoïsche sociale organisatie.

Despite more than a century of investigation, our understanding of Bronze Age (Minoan; c.3100/3000-1300 BC) society on Crete, traditionally considered Europe's first urban civilisation, is still limited, partly because of a failure to question a dominant model of social and political organisation inherited from the early twentieth century pioneers of Minoan archaeology, partly because of enduring gaps and biases in the data and partly because of a failure fully to incorporate advances in archaeological theory and methodology. The proposed project will address thes issues by contributing to a major interdisciplinary study of social, economic and political organisation at the site of Sissi on Crete (SARPedon), where ongoing excavations (since 2007), co-directed by the project leader and under the auspices of the Belgian School of Archaeology in Greece, have revealed a settlement and its associated cemetery. The proposed project will focus specifically on three main areas of study: the structure, temporality and use of space across the site; the production, exchange and consumption of pottery; and diet, health and funerary practice. These three elements represent separate lines of approach to the question of social, economic and political organisation and have been designed not just to be innovative and ground-breaking studies in their own right, but also to be mutually comparable and to link with other current and planned research within the SARPedon framework.
Datum:1 okt 2009 →  30 sep 2015
Trefwoorden:Bronze age, Arcaeology