In this innovative study, James Whitley examines the relationship between the development of pot style and social changes in the Dark Age of Greece (1100-700 BC). He focuses on Athens where the Protogeometric and Geometric styles first appeared. He considers pot shape and painted decoration primarily in relation to the other relevant features - metal artefacts, grave architecture, funerary rites, and the age and sex of the deceased - and also takes into account different contexts in which these shapes and decorations appear. A computer analysis of grave assemblages supports his view that pot style is an integral part of the collective representations of Early Athenian society. It is a lens through which we can focus on the changing social circumstances of Dark Age Greece. Dr Whitley's approach to the study of style challenges many of the assumptions which have underpinned more traditional studies of Early Greek art.
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'...a convincing plea for an archaeological treatment of Geometric pottery which neither reduces it to ideology nor relegates it to 'connoisseurship' and the values of the art market.' Antiquity
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In this innovative study, James Whitley examines the relationship between the development of pot style and social changes in the Dark Age of Greece.
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In 850 BC, or thereabouts, in Athens a woman of middling years died and was cremated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metopal schemes, circular metopes, mortuary representations, inurned cremation, double maeander, male interments, wealth score, rich female graves, burial amphora, opposed strokes, belly zone, pedestalled kraters, handle zone, iron fibula, other clay object, urn hole, geometric idiom, burying group, prothesis scene, figured scenes, grave architecture, sanctuary deposits, bronze fibula, family grave plot, metal artefacts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dark Age, Late Geometric, Middle Geometric, Early Geometric, Kriezi Street, Near Eastern, Bronze Age, Dipylon Master, Erechtheion Street, Kerameikos South, Archaic Greece, Attic Geometric, Rich Athenian, Athens National Museum, Krause's Zeitstufen, Mount Hymettus, Iron Age, New York, Paris Louvre, Piraeus Street, Mount Hymettos, Weapons Gold, Palaia Kokkinia, Parker Pearson, Submycenaean Athens New!
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In 850 BC, or thereabouts, in Athens a woman of middling years died and was cremated. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metopal schemes, circular metopes, mortuary representations, inurned cremation, double maeander, male interments, wealth score, rich female graves, burial amphora, opposed strokes, belly zone, pedestalled kraters, handle zone, iron fibula, other clay object, urn hole, geometric idiom, burying group, prothesis scene, figured scenes, grave architecture, sanctuary deposits, bronze fibula, family grave plot, metal artefacts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dark Age, Late Geometric, Middle Geometric, Early Geometric, Kriezi Street, Near Eastern, Bronze Age, Dipylon Master, Erechtheion Street, Kerameikos South, Archaic Greece, Attic Geometric, Rich Athenian, Athens National Museum, Krause's Zeitstufen, Mount Hymettus, Iron Age, New York, Paris Louvre, Piraeus Street, Mount Hymettos, Weapons Gold, Palaia Kokkinia, Parker Pearson, Submycenaean Athens New!
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- Geometric Greece by J. N. Coldstream on page 7, page 34, and Back Matter
- Geometric Greece: 900-700 BC by J.N. Coldstream on page 7, page 34, and Back Matter
- What Happened in History: The Classic Study Which Opened Up New Perspectives in History (Peregrine Books) by V. Gordon Childe on page 44, and Back Matter
- Symbolic and Structural Archaeology (New Directions in Archaeology) by Ian Hodder in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Synopsis, 1: An Annual Index of Greek Studies, 1992 (New Directions in Therapeutic) by A. Dimarogonas on page 9, and page 150
- The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (The Experience of Archaeology) by Michael Shanks on page 140, and Back Matter
- The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (Experiences of Archaeology) by Michael Shanks on page 140, and Back Matter
- Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece by Andrew Stewart in Back Matter
- Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources (Interpreting Ancient History) by Eric W. Robinson on page 74
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