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The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete

by: Myers, J.W. Myers, E.E. Cadogan, G. Gifford, g.a.

Price: 145,00 EURO

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Category: Minoan / Mycenaean / Aegean / Mediterranean Bronze Age
Code: 585
ISBN-13: 9780520073821 / 978-0-520-07382-1
ISBN-10: 0520073827 / 0-520-07382-7
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 1992
Publication Place: Berkeley
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 318
Book Condition: New

The aerial atlas of ancient Crete
Authors:J. Wilson Myers, Eleanor Emlen Myers, Gerald Cadogan, John A. Gifford

 

This book marks an astonishing achievement in ancient Greek archaeology. Using twin cameras suspended from a 33-foot, four-finned balloon, Wilson and Ellie Myers have been able to photograph 44 archaeological sites on Crete from a much lower altitude than is possible from helicopters or airplanes. The result is stunning. The breathtaking high-resolution photographs reveal new information and correct mistaken assumptions about these ancient sites. The Atlas will cause scholars to rethink their notions about the Minoan culture of Crete, which with its linear A writing, widespread sea trade, elaborate palaces, and unique art was crucial to the development of western civilization. For archaeologists of the future, the Atlas photographs preserve important information that is being lost each year through gradual erosion of the sites.For each site entry there are aerial views and a corresponding drawn plan, each shedding light on the other; a detailed description of the site (its significance, relationship to the local topography and geology, and excavation history); and a comprehensive research bibliography. The descriptions prepared by the international community of Cretan archaeologists under the guidance of regional specialist Gerald Cadogan reflect the latest available information on the sites of the Minoans and those who succeeded them. Indeed, the text entries and the chapter on Crete by Cadogan are in themselves a major contribution to scholarship.Together, text and photographs, which offer a unique grouping of related sites for comparative study, provide a significant advance in archaeological method. The work will be welcomed by archaeologists in the field as well as by scholars of ancient Greek civilization. With its introductory chapters, accessible style, and magnificent photographs, the Atlas will also appeal to the archaeological tourist and the armchair traveler.

Contents:
Part I. The atlas and Crete. Aerial archaeology and the atlas / J. Wilson Myers and Eleanor Emlen Myers
The geomorphology of Crete / John A. Gifford
The climate and vegetation of Crete / Edward Flaccus
Ancient and modern Crete / Gerald Cadogan
Part II. The sites. Using the atlas
Achladia / Nikolaos Platon
Archanes-Anemospilia / Yannis Sakellarakis and Efi Sakellaraki
Archanes-Phourni / Yannis Sakellarakis and Efi Sakellaraki
Archanes-Tourkoyeitonia / Yannis Sakellarakis and Efi Sakellaraki
Armeni / Yannis Tzedakis
Ayia Triada / Vincenzo La Rosa
Chamaizi / Costis Davaras
Chondros / Nikolaos Platon
Dreros / Henri Van Effenterre
Eleutherna / Petros Themelis
Gortyn / Antonio Di Vita
Gournia / Gerald Cadogan
Kamilari / Vincenzo La Rosa
Karphi / Gerald Cadogan
Kavousi / Geraldine C. Gesell, Leslie P. Day, and William D.D. Coulson
Knossos / Gerald Cadogan
Kommos / Joseph W. Shaw
Lato / Olivier Picard
Lebena-Asklepieion / Chiara Tarditi
Lebena
tombs / Stylianos Alexiou
Lissos / Nikolaos Platon
Makryyialos / Costis Davaras
Mallia / Olivier Pelon, Jean-Claude Poursat, Rene Treuil, and Henri Van Effenterre
Mochlos / Jeffrey S. Soles
Monastiraki / Athanasia Kanta
Myrtos-Phournou Koryphi / Peter Warren
Myrtos-Pyrgos / Gerald Cadogan
Nerokourou / Yannis Tzedakis
Odigitria
Olous / Henri Van Effenterre
Palaikastro / J. Alexander MacGillivray and L. Hugh Sackett
Phaistos / Vincenzo La Rosa
Phalasarna / Elpida Hadjidaki
Platanos / Antonis Vasilakis
Polyrrhenia / Vanna Niniou-Kindeli
Praisos / James Whitley
Pseira / Costis Davaras, Philip P. Betancourt, and William R. Farrand
Syme / Angeliki Lebessi
Tylissos / Antonis Vasilakis
Vasiliki / Antonis A. Zois
Vathypetro / Gerald Cadogan
Vrokasdtro / Barbara J. Hayden
Zakro / Nikolaos Platon

xix, 318 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 33 x 31 cm


Subjects:
Aerial photographs
Aerial photography in archaeology
Aerial views
Antiquities
Archäologie
Archeologische vindplaatsen
Atlas
Ausgrabung
Crete (Greece) Aerial photographs
Crete (Greece) Antiquities
Crete (Greece) Antiquities Pictorial works
Crete (Greece) Pictorial works
Crète (Grèce) Antiquités
Crète (Grèce) Descriptions et voyages
Crète (Grèce) Ouvrages illustrés
Greece Crete
Kreta
Luchtfotografie
Luftbild
Pictorial works
Sites archéologiques Grèce Crète (Grèce) Photographies aériennes
Vues aériennes
 
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