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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at 'Mycenaean' Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

This paper takes a practice-based approach to the study of cultural identity, focusing on how raw material and technical choices involved in the production of quotidian tools served to both reproduce, and reflect a social group’s very way of being. We then consider the (dis)continuity of obsidian blade-making traditions from Middle–Late Bronze Age Malia (north-central Crete), i.e., before and after a period of island-wide destructions, and appearance of foreign elements believed to reflect the arrival of a population from the Greek mainland (Mycenaeans). Methodologically this involves an integrated, ‘thick description’ obsidian characterisation study to detail long-term cultural traditions, including the use of Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) to source the raw materials of 36 artifacts. The results show a significant degree of continuity in the community’s lithic traditions, suggesting that many of the innovative features at Malia can be interpreted in t ....

Perifereia Peloponnisou , Perifereia Notiou Aigaiou , New York , United States , Perifereia Thessalias , Perifereia Kritis , Perifereia Voreiou Aigaiou , Nychia Adhamas , Peterf Biehl , Malia Crete , National Centre Of Scientific Research Demokritos , University Of New York , Institute For The Study Of Aegean Prehistory , Bradford University School Of Applied Physics , International Atomic Energy Agency , University At Buffalo , Late Bronze Age Malia , Neutron Activation Analysis , State University , Creative Commons Attribution License , Supporting Information , Aegean Prehistory , Eastern Mediterranean , Late Minoan , Bronze Age Crete , Late Bronze Ages ,

Famous Archaeologist Sinclair Hood Passes Away Aged 103


Famous archaeologist Sinclair Hood passes away aged 103
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He was one of the great archaeologists of the 20th century, and was particularly associated with the Minoan Palace of Knossos where he worked and excavated for many years.
He passed away on Monday, two weeks short of his 104th birthday.
Hood was born in Cobh, (then Queenstown), Ireland, in 1917.
He received a Master of Arts degree from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1939 and later received a diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology from the University of London in 1947.
Hood then attended the British School of Archaeology in Athens. He later served as assistant director (1949-1951) and director (1954-1962). ....

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