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An Interdisciplinary Study of Middle Cycladic White Wares from Akrotiri on Thera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

S.J. Vaughan ,
V. Kilikoglou  and
A. Papagiannopoulou
S.J. Vaughan
Affiliation:
Wiener Laboratory, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 54 Souidias, Athens GR106–76, Greece
V. Kilikoglou
Affiliation:
Archaeometry Laboratory, NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, 15310 Attiki, Greece
A. Papagiannopoulou
Affiliation:
Levidou 18, Kifissia, Athens, Greece
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Few archaeological sites have drawn, and held the imagination and attention of the range of scholars as the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri on Thera in the southern Cyclades, currently excavated by Athens University and the Greek Archaeological Society [1,2]. The archaeological significance of Akrotiri can hardly be overstated from any perspective. With respect to the controversial question of a Minoan hegemony, it lies on a particularly strategic point in Bronze Age trading routes between the mainland, the Cycladic islands and Crete [3\. By the sixteenth century BC the many Minoan features present in Theran material culture (such as fresco iconography, Linear A tablets, ceramic motifs and architectural details) continue to provoke debate concerning the existence, or extent of a Minoan thalassocracy. Thus characterizations of what may be distinguished as truly “local” attributes of Theran crafts in the earlier periods are increasingly important.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 352: Symposium – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IV , 1995 , 445
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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