A Greek state in formation : the origins of civilization in Mycenaean Pylos

A Greek state in formation : the origins of civilization in Mycenaean Pylos /

"The Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, yet its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of ongoing excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos takes readers on a tour of the beginnings of Mycenaean civilization through a case study of this im...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Jack L. (Author)
Other Authors: Stocker, Sharon R. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:Sather classical lectures ; v. 75.
Subjects:
Palace of Nestor (Pylos, Greece) > History.
Palais de Nestor (Pylos, Grèce) > Histoire.
Palace of Nestor (Pylos, Greece)
Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Pylos.
Civilization, Mycenaean.
Ancient World.
Archaeology.
History.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Civilization, Mycenaean
Excavations (Archaeology)
Greece
Ancient World
Archaeology
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • About the Aegean Bronze Age
  • About the Palace of Nestor
  • Mycenaean origins and the Greek nation-state
  • Farm, field, and Pylos
  • A truly prehistoric archaeology of Greece
  • Preserving and conserving Nestor
  • Science and the mortuary landscape of Pylos
  • Minoan missionaries in Pylos / with Sharon R. Stocker
  • Epilogue / with Sharon R. Stocker.

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