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Gorokhovich, Yuri, Larry Mays, and Lee Ullmann. "A survey of ancient Minoan water technologies." Water Supply 11, no. 4 (September 1, 2011): 388–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2011.072.

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A survey is presented of water technologies used by the ancient Minoan civilization during the Bronze Age. This survey considers eleven Minoan settlements on the eastern part of Crete and is based upon a field assessment of the water technologies. While water systems had a monumental role in the life of the Minoans there has been little understanding of these ancient systems. Partially this can be explained by the multiple levels of modifications to the original structures since the demise of the Minoan civilization. In addition, post-excavation activities on archaeological sites obscure and mask features of the ancient structures making it difficult to discern their original purposes. Today, Minoan water technologies can serve as models for sustainable water management and adaptation to climatic fluctuations. Our present day practice of designing water systems in many developed parts of the world has forgotten the more sustainable practices, based upon traditional knowledge, such as rainfall water harvesting, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. In many developing parts of the world people overlook the technologies and know how that was used thousands of years ago by ancient civilizations, such as the Minoans. How do we overcome these modern day shortcomings and strive for water resources sustainability? Possibly one way is to study the past.
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Tsonis, A. A., K. L. Swanson, G. Sugihara, and P. A. Tsonis. "Climate change and the demise of Minoan civilization." Climate of the Past Discussions 6, no. 3 (May 12, 2010): 801–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cpd-6-801-2010.

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Abstract. Climate change has been implicated in the success and downfall of several ancient civilizations. Here we present a synthesis of historical, climatic, and geological evidence that supports the hypothesis that climate change may have been responsible for the slow demise of Minoan civilization. Using proxy ENSO and precipitation reconstruction data in the period 1650–1980 we present empirical and quantitative evidence that El Niño causes drier conditions in the area of Crete. This result is supported by modern data analysis as well as by model simulations. Though not very strong, the ENSO-Mediterranean drying signal appears to be robust, and its overall effect was accentuated by a series of unusually strong and long-lasting El Niños during the time of the Minoan decline. We show that a change in the dynamics of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system occurred around 3000 BC, which culminated in a series of strong and frequent El Niños starting at about 1450 BC and lasting for several centuries. This stressful climatic tend, associated with the gradual demise of the Minoans, is argued to be an important force acting in the downfall of this classic and long-lived civilization.
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Tsonis, A. A., K. L. Swanson, G. Sugihara, and P. A. Tsonis. "Climate change and the demise of Minoan civilization." Climate of the Past 6, no. 4 (August 24, 2010): 525–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-6-525-2010.

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Abstract. Climate change has been implicated in the success and downfall of several ancient civilizations. Here we present a synthesis of historical, climatic, and geological evidence that supports the hypothesis that climate change may have been responsible for the slow demise of Minoan civilization. Using proxy ENSO and precipitation reconstruction data in the period 1650–1980 we present empirical and quantitative evidence that El Nino causes drier conditions in the area of Crete. This result is supported by modern data analysis as well as by model simulations. Though not very strong, the ENSO-Mediterranean drying signal appears to be robust, and its overall effect was accentuated by a series of unusually strong and long-lasting El Nino events during the time of the Minoan decline. Indeed, a change in the dynamics of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system occurred around 3000 BC, which culminated in a series of strong and frequent El Nino events starting at about 1450 BC and lasting for several centuries. This stressful climatic trend, associated with the gradual demise of the Minoans, is argued to be an important force acting in the downfall of this classic and long-lived civilization.
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Khan, S., E. Dialynas, V. K. Kasaraneni, and A. N. Angelakis. "Similarities of Minoan and Indus Valley Hydro-Technologies." Sustainability 12, no. 12 (June 16, 2020): 4897. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12124897.

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This review evaluates Minoan and Indus Valley hydro-technologies in southeastern Greece and Indus Valley Pakistan, respectively. The Minoan civilization first inhabited Crete and several Aegean islands shortly after the Late Neolithic times and flourished during the Bronze Age (ca 3200–1100 BC). At that time, the Minoan civilization developed fundamental technologies and reached its pinnacle as the first and most important European culture. Concurrently, the Indus Valley civilization populated the eastern bank of the Indus River, its tributaries in Pakistan, and the Ganges plains in India and Nadia (Bangladesh), spreading over an area of about one million km2. Its total population was unknown; however, an estimated 43,000 people resided at Harappa. The urban hydro-technologies, characteristics of a civilization can be determined by two specific aspects, the natural and the social environment. These two aspects cover a variety of factors, such as climate and social conditions, type of terrain, water supply, agriculture, water logging, sanitation and sewerage, hygienic conditions of communities, and racial features of the population. Therefore, these factors were used to understand the water resources management practices in early civilizations (e.g., Minoan and Indus Valley) and similarities, despite the large geographic distance between places of origin. Also discussed are the basic principles and characteristics of water management sustainability in both civilizations and a comparison of basic water supply and sanitation practices through the long history of the two civilizations. Finally, sustainability issues and lessons learned are considered.
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Angelakis, A. N., and D. S. Spyridakis. "A brief history of water supply and wastewater management in ancient Greece." Water Supply 10, no. 4 (September 1, 2010): 618–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2010.105.

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The evolution of urban water management in ancient Greece begins in Crete during the Middle Bronze and the beginning of the Late Bronze Ages (ca. 2000–1500 B.C.) when many remarkable developments occurred in several stages as Minoan civilization flourished on the island. One of its salient characteristics was the architectural and hydraulic function of its water supply and sewerage systems in the Minoan Palaces and several other settlements. These technologies, though they do not give a complete picture of water supply and wastewater and storm water technologies in ancient Greece, indicate nevertheless that such technologies have been used in Greece since prehistoric times. Minoan water and wastewater technologies were diffused to the Greek mainland in the subsequent phases of Greek civilization, i.e. in the Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The scope of this article is the presentation of the most characteristic forms of ancient hydraulic works and related technologies and their uses in past Greek civilizations.
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Angelakis, A. N. "Hydro-technologies in the Minoan Era." Water Supply 17, no. 4 (January 23, 2017): 1106–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2017.006.

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Significant characteristics of the Minoan civilization were: (a) their peaceful living with their environment and neighbors (although the Minoans dominated in the Mediterranean for almost two millennia, in none of the numerous wars and/or conflicts that occurred in the region were they directly or indirectly involved) and (b) technological developments that are unprecedented in world history, as shown by the numerous paradigms on water resources technologies used and water, wastewater, and stormwater management. These paradigms are relevant to water supply, fountains, cisterns used to store rainwater or spring water, aqueducts, dams, wells, water treatment systems, baths and toilets, sewerage and drainage systems, irrigation and drainage of agricultural land, and water use for recreation. Significant hydrologic and hydraulic achievements in Minoan Crete are considered and discussed.
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Velegrakis, George, Charalambos Skoulakis, John Bizakis, John Segas, and Emmanuel Helidonis. "Otorhinolaryngological diseases in the minoan era." Journal of Laryngology & Otology 107, no. 10 (October 1993): 879–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022215100124697.

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AbstractMinoan civilization was one of the civilizations of the past and flourished in the island of Crete between the years 2600 B.C. and 1100 B.C. Archaeological excavations brought to the light buildings and items, showing that the Minoans had an extensive knowledge about hygiene and health matters.Among the items were idols, depicting anatomical parts of the human body and different pathological changes. These idols were offered by suffering people to gods and goddesses in order to beg for their help in curing them.In a study carried out on idols kept in the Heraklion Museum, a number of interesting anatomical details and pathological changes, concerning the head and neck area were recognized.
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Zamojski, Adam. "The Origin of Europe. The Minoan Civilization." Dialogue and Universalism 19, no. 6 (2009): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/du2009196/738.

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Simandiraki, Anna. ":* the Minoan civilization in Greek primary education." World Archaeology 36, no. 2 (June 2004): 177–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0043824042000260960.

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Warren, Peter. "A New Minoan Deposit from Knossos c.1600 B.C., and its Wider Relations." Annual of the British School at Athens 86 (November 1991): 319–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400014982.

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The article provides a detailed summary of a large deposit, primarily of pottery, from the 1978–82 Stratigraphical Museum Excavations at Knossos. The deposit is assigned to the Middle Minoan III B – Late Minoan I A transition. The material is used as the basis of a re-examination of this difficult stage in the Minoan ceramic sequence and a wide range of deposits, notable among them the seismic destruction level at Akrotiri on Thera, is able to be linked to the Knossos material in order to define the phase more fully. The wide destruction level thus documented may then be set within the historical development of Minoan civilization.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Minoan civilization"

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Kieser, Deanne. "Minoan trade: aspects and ambiguities." Diss., [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://etd.unisa.ac.za/ETD-db/ETD-desc/describe?urn=etd-08192005-084633.

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Balduini, Émilie. "Les plantes dans le monde minoen : espèces, préparation, utilisations." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013STRAG016.

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Aujourd’hui, la Crète offre une flore riche et en partie unique. Cette thèse a pour objectif d’étudier les plantes dans le monde minoen (Crète et Théra, actuelle Santorin), en identifiant les espèces grâce à divers supports, en analysant les procédés de préparation et les utilisations que les Minoens pouvaient faire de ces plantes. La première partie de notre travail est un catalogue iconographique qui répertorie les plantes dans l’art, les écritures et les analyses scientifiques. Les études publiées jusqu’à présent se concentrent sur l’identification des motifs floraux ou sur une plante spécifique et les relations hommes-plantes ne sont pas ou peu analysées. La particularité de notre démarche est d’être complétée par une analyse contextuelle qui permet de pallier cette lacune. La deuxième partie de nos recherches concerne la préparation des plantes, c’est-à-dire les attentions qu’elles nécessitaient avant d’être utilisées dans la vie quotidienne. Les domaines d’utilisations envisageables étant nombreux, notre étude se focalise sur l’utilisation des plantes dans les cérémonies religieuses et dans l’artisanat du textile
Today, Crete offers a rich and partially unique flora. The aim of this thesis is to study plants in the Minoan world (Crete and Akrotiri, Thera), by identifying the species thanks to diverse media, by analyzing the methods of preparation and uses which Minoans could make of these plants. The first part of our work is an iconographic catalog which lists plants in art, writings and scientific analyses. Previous studies focus on the identification of floral patterns or a specific plant, and relationships between men and plants are not or not much analyzed. The special feature of our approach is to be completed by a contextual analysis which allows to compensate for this gap. The second part of our researches concerns the preparation of plants, that is to say the attention which they required before being used in everyday life. The possible fields being numerous, our study focuses on the use of plants in religion and in textile industry
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Shapazian, Karin. "As escadas da arquitetura minóica do período palacial." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-09052007-105407/.

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Através da pesquisa dos elementos verticais, presentes na maioria dos edifícios da cidade de Mália do período palacial (2300-1480 a.C.), temos como objetivo nesta dissertação de mestrado analisar a organização tridimensional das construções, tanto as privadas como as públicas. A investigação inicialmente parte das noções do conhecimento de todas propriedades e características desses mega-artefatos, os edifícios. Em seguida, busca identificar padrões e regularidades, analisando os materiais, as técnicas e as disposições das escadarias inseridas nas construções, para assim poder compreender o papel do elemento vertical na percepção do espaço entre os minóicos, a tridimensionalidade de seus edifícios, suas restrições e possíveis reestruturações de funções, pois o que restou dessas construções são apenas as rotas horizontais. Tenta-se identificar as concepções que levaram seus usuários a optar por verticalizar suas cidades. Esta pesquisa revela que os elementos verticais são essencias na paisagem em relação aos aspectos espaciais construídos; definem edifícios que se destacam e modificam o território onde viviam os minóicos.
Through the research of vertical elements, which are prevalent throughout the majority of the buildings in the palatial city of Malia (2300-1480 a.C.), we aim to analyze the spatial organization of tri-dimensional constructions, in both private and public buildings. The investigation is initially based on the notions of the knowledge of all the properties and characteristics of those mega-artefacts, the buildings. Then, identify patterns and regularities, analyzing the material, the techniques, and the layout of staircases built into the constructions, as to achieve a deeper understanding of the role the vertical element played in the perception of space among the minoans, their tridimensionality techniques, the restrictions and the possibility of restructuring functions, since what is left of the constructions is only the floor plan. We attempt to identify the conceptions that led the users to choose to make their cities vertical. This research shows how essential the vertical elements are in the landscape when built spacial aspects are concerned; they define buildings which stand out and modify the territories where the minoans lived.
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Machado, Paulo de Castro Marcondes. "Estados primitivos em Creta: a administração neopalacial e as unidades sócio-políticas minóicas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-13082009-170044/.

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A civilização minóica da Creta da Idade do Bronze foi uma das poucas civilizações européias a organizar a sociedade através de um sistema palacial. Os estudos sobre a formação dos estados minóicos devem analisar em profundidade o sistema administrativo palacial e as mudanças no mesmo ao longo de seus seis séculos de funcionamento - neste trabalho pretende-se analisar a evolução da complexidade das unidades sócio-políticas minóicas através da análise de suas formas administrativas. A definição de categorias de sítios administrativos - pela análise funcional dos vestígios arquiteturais e dos achados arqueológicos dos mesmos - e o estudo dos padrões hierárquicos entre os diversos sítios, serão o cerne do trabalho. O uso de metodologias apropriadas para a análise de processos de mudança e formação de instituições político-administrativas, como a Teoria de Sistemas e os conceitos de peer polity interaction de Colin Renfrew, serão as ferramentas básicas deste projeto. Esse trabalho é um desdobramento de pesquisa desenvolvida em Mestrado realizado no MAE/USP sobre as interações entre os estados primitivos de Creta e as práticas de culto minóicas.
The Minoan Civilization of the Bronze Age Crete was one of the few european civilizations that organized its society through a palatial system. The studies about the development of the Minoan States must analyse thoroughness the administrative palatial system and the changes that have occured on it during its six centuries of functioning. In this thesis we intend to analyse the complexity evolution of the Minoan polities through the analysis of its administrative configurations. The definition of administrative sites - through the function analysis of the architectural vestiges and of its archaeological discoveries - and the study of the hierarchic patterns among the sites, will be the main point of this research. The use of usefull methodologies for the analysis of early state formation and culture change, like systems theory and the concepts of peer polity interaction, will be the basis tools of this project. This research follows research developed in the mastership done in MAE/USP about the interaction between the early states of Crete and the Minoan ritual practices.
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TenWolde, Christopher Andrew. "State Formation in the Cretan Bronze Age." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218789093.

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Isobe, Rogéria Moreira Rezende. "Educação e civilização no sertão: práticas de constituição do modelo escolar no triângulo mineiro (1906-1920)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2008. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10645.

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This research analyzes the process of constitution of the school model in Minas Gerais generated by the educational reform of 1906. It focuses the so called Triangulo Mineiro, seeking for taking the fights of representation and the actions of the subjects at schools at a dialogue with other agents and social institutions involved on the movement of the production of the school model from 1906 to 1920. At the process of the republican civilizator project, the constitution of the school model becomes a strategy of state intervention to civilize the popular classes and the hinterland regions of the state, like the Minas Triangle, represented as an antithesis of the wished modernity and target of government actions to conquer the retrograde and rude spaces to synchronize the different civilizatory rhythms. Having the Sao Paulo school model as a reference, which was based on the modern pedagogy principles, the reformers from Minas Gerais mobilized a group of mechanisms with the intention to implement new educational and social practices: the Model Normal School, the Scholar Group, the Teaching Technical Inspection and the Intuitive Method. We have observed that the reformers from Minas Gerais were based on Sao Paulo experience but they accomplished an acclimatization of the pedagogical models according to the representation they made of their own reality ad of the possibilities of efficiency of this model. The analysis also made evident that the process of constitution of the school model at the Minas Triangle did not occur on a peaceful way it was marked by tensions, conflicts and resistance of the different subjects according to their individual expectations and/or the groups they belonged to. The incursion on the empirical corpus was held on a way to apprehend the fights of representations. In a way, we have analyzed the voices of the official implementation of the school model by examining mainly the reports of inspection, direction of the scholar groups and the secretary of interior. On the other hand, we have looked for the apprehension of the voices of resistance, the contradictions, the dissensions by examining mailing, newspaper articles, schools report cards. In order to accomplish this, we have been into the field of Cultural History of school, which marks new criteria of treatment of files and tries to rehistoricize school, un-naturalize it as an object of investigation, conceiving it as a result of practices
Esta pesquisa analisa o processo de constituição do modelo escolar em Minas Gerais engendrado com a Reforma educacional de 1906. Focaliza o Triângulo Mineiro buscando apreender as lutas de representações e as ações dos sujeitos escolares na interlocução com outros agentes e instituições sociais envolvidas no movimento de produção do modelo escolar no período de 1906 a 1920. No âmbito do projeto civilizador republicano, a constituição do modelo escolar configura-se como estratégia de intervenção estatal para civilizar as classes populares e as regiões sertanejas do estado, como o Triângulo Mineiro, representadas como antítese da modernidade desejada e alvo da ação governamental que se encarregava de conquistar os espaços atrasados e incultos para sincronizar os diferentes ritmos civilizatórios. Tendo como referência o modelo escolar paulista, que alicerçava-se nos preceitos da pedagogia moderna , os reformadores mineiros mobilizaram um conjunto de dispositivos com o intuito de instaurar novas práticas educativas e sociais: A Escola Normal Modelo, O Grupo Escolar, A Inspeção Técnica do Ensino e o Método Intuitivo. Observou-se que os reformadores mineiros se basearam na experiência paulista, mas realizaram uma aclimação dos modelos pedagógicos de acordo com a representação que faziam da realidade em que estavam inseridos e das possibilidades de eficácia deste modelo. A análise evidenciou também que o processo de constituição do modelo escolar no Triângulo Mineiro não ocorreu de forma pacífica, mas foi marcado por tensões, os conflitos e resistências dos diferentes sujeitos de acordo com suas expectativas individuais e/ou dos grupos a que pertenciam. A incursão no corpus empírico realizou-se de maneira a apreender as lutas de representações. De um lado buscou-se analisar as vozes da implementação oficial do modelo escolar examinando principalmente os relatórios de inspeção, direção dos grupos escolares e do secretário do interior. De outro lado, buscou-se apreender as vozes das resistências, das contradições, das dissensões examinando correspondências, artigos de jornais, boletins escolares. Para tanto, inscreveu-se no campo da História Cultural da escola que sinaliza novos critérios de tratamento do arquivo e busca rehistoricizar a escola, desnaturalizá-la enquanto objeto de investigação, concebendo-a como um produto de práticas
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Gulizio, Joann. "Mycenaean religion at Knossos." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4006.

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This dissertation examines the archaeological and textual evidence for religion at the site of Knossos during the Mycenaean phases of administration (LM II-LM IIIB1). Several methodological issues in the nature of the evidence are addressed. The Linear B documents, due to their economic nature, offer limited information about religion. Moreover, the tablets from Knossos belong to at least two different phases of administration. The archaeological evidence for the different phases of cult use is often difficult to assess given the continued use of the palace over an extended period of time. To address these issues, the evidence from Knossos is divided into two temporal phases so that the textual evidence can be closely examined alongside its contemporary archaeological evidence for cult. This process has allowed for a more accurate view of the religion at Knossos in the Late Bronze Age. An evolution in the religious beliefs and practices are evident in the material culture. The presence of Indo-European divinities into the Knossian pantheon by the newly-installed Greek-speaking elite population is apparent from the outset, while previous Minoan style shrines continue to be used. In the later phase, numerous Minoan divinities are included in ritual offerings, while some Greek divinities are now given local epithets. Also at this time, Minoan shrine types gradually go out of use, whereas bench sanctuaries (a shrine type common to both Minoans and Mycenaeans) become the norm. The overall nature of Mycenaean religious assemblages at Knossos represents a unique blend of both Minoan and Mycenaean religious beliefs and practices.
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Books on the topic "Minoan civilization"

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Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine. Urbana, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

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Driessen, Jan. The troubled island: Minoan Crete before and after the Santorini eruption. Liège (Belgique): Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de la Grèce antique, 1997.

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Harissis, Haralampos V. Apiculture in the prehistoric Aegean: Minoan and Mycenaean symbols revisited. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges Ltd., 2009.

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V, Harissis Anastasios, ed. Apiculture in the prehistoric Aegean: Minoan and Mycenaean symbols revisited. Oxford: John and Erica Hedges Ltd., 2009.

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Labouring with the challenges of female identity: Insights into Minoan Society. Athens: Livani Publishing, 2010.

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Il disco di Pháistos =: O diskos tou Phaistou : il mistero svelato : con un nuovo approccio e traduzione. Sestu (Cagliari): Zonza, 2007.

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Colloquium on Post-Minoan Crete (1st 1995 University College, London). Post-Minoan Crete: Proceedings of the First Colloquium on Post-Minoan Crete held by the British School at Athens and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 10-11 November 1995. Edited by Cavanagh William G, Curtis M, British School at Athens, and University College, London. Institute of Archaeology. London: British School at Athens, 1998.

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Baumbach, Lydia. Studies in Mycenaean inscriptions and dialect, 1965-1978: A complete bibliography and index incorporating the contents of volumes XI-XXIII published between 1965 and 1978 by the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London and the British Association of Mycenaean Studies. Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1986.

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Baumbach, Lydia. Studies in Mycenaean inscriptions and dialect 1965-1978: A complete bibliography and index incorporating the contentsof volumes XI-XXIII published between 1965 and 1978 by the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London and the British Association of Mycenaean Studies. Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1986.

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Phillips, Jacqueline Sharon. The impact and implications of the Egyptian and Egyptianizing material found in Bronze Age Crete ca. 3000 - ca. 1100 B.C. [Toronto?]: The Author, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Minoan civilization"

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Glassman, Ronald M. "Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations." In The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States, 745–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51695-0_67.

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Hancock, James F. "Ancient Mediterranean trade links." In Spices, scents and silk: catalysts of world trade, 37–49. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789249743.0004.

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Abstract This chapter describes the commercial, political, and trade landscape of the early ancient civilizations. It consists of ten subchapters which are about the early Egyptian-Levantine trade, the Minoans and Mycenaeans, the invisible commodities in early commerce between Egypt and the Levant, Solomon and the Kingdom of Israel, Phoenicians, emergence of the Greek City States, Alexander and the City of Alexandria, Egypt under the Ptolemies, Rome and Carthage rise and fight for Mediterranean supremacy, and lastly, the Romans control of Egypt.
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Warren, Peter M. "The Apogee of Minoan Civilization:." In PHILISTOR, 255–72. INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgvpj.35.

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Marinatos, Nanno. "Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations." In Ancient Religions, 206–9. Harvard University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674039186-022.

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Goff, James, and Walter Dudley. "Saved by the Baguette." In Tsunami, 136–50. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197546123.003.0012.

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Volcanoes are an important cause of catastrophic tsunamis, none more so than Santorini (Thera) that erupted with devastating power approximately 1600 BC. This Late Bronze Age eruption generated a tsunami that rampaged throughout the Mediterranean and saw the beginning of the end for the Minoan civilization at the time. In more recent times, the 1883 eruption of Krakatau in Indonesia caused similar mayhem. However, the recent eruption of Krakatau’s child, Anak Krakatau, shows the disturbing ability of volcanoes to rebuild and repeat. In this chapter, these events and several more are charted through their local and distant effects, concluding with a salutary tale about the man in Martinique who was saved by a stolen baguette.
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Fant, Clyde E., and Mitchell G. Reddish. "Samos." In A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195139174.003.0022.

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The island of Samos, one of the most pleasant of all the Greek islands, played an important role in both Greek and Roman history. The significance of Samos was due to its strategic location and its fame from three sources: the Great Temple to Hera, one of the most renowned in the ancient world; the Tunnel of Eupalinus, one of the great engineering feats of antiquity; and two of its most famous citizens, the moralist Aesop and the mathematician Pythagoras, of Pythagorean theorem fame. Samos is located only 1 mile from the shore of western Turkey. It received its name, according to Herodotus, because of its mountainous terrain. Samos means “high land” and seems to have been derived either from the Phoenician word sama or from the Ionian word samo, both of which have the same meaning. (Another island to the north has a similar name, Samothrace, which means the samos of nearby Thrace.) This relatively small island, 14 miles wide and 27 miles long, shows evidence of occupation at least as early as the 4th millennium B.C.E. Later, abundant evidence attests to further occupation in the Early Bronze Age by the Mycenaeans. Likewise, the Ionians established colonies on the island during the early Iron Age and it subsequently became a great naval power. Sometime during the 8th century B.C.E., Samos obtained land on the opposite coast of Asia Minor, which led to ongoing conflict with neighboring Priene. The most famous, and infamous, ruler of Samos was Polycrates, the tyrant who ruled from approximately 550 B.C.E. until 522 B.C.E., when he was lured to Asia Minor and subsequently crucified by the Persians. During his reign, according to Strabo, the naval fleet of Samos became the first to rule the Aegean Sea since the days of the Minoan civilization. Polycrates established a cultured court, encouraged fine arts, and invited the famous hydraulics engineer Eupalinus of Megara to construct the great water tunnel that became known as the Tunnel of Eupalinus. Other public works projects included the construction of great walls around the city.
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Tammemagi, Hans. "Historical Perspectives: What Can We Learn?" In The Waste Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195128987.003.0006.

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More than any other single event, the seemingly endless wandering of the garbage barge Mobro 4000 symbolizes the frustrating situation we find ourselves in. The barge, laden with refuse from the town of Islip on Long Island, New York, set sail on March 22,1987, and roamed for 55 days from port to port down the Atlantic seaboard, along the coast of Central America, and into the Caribbean in search of a place that would accept its smelly load. None would. Eventually, after having traveled more than 9,600 kilometers, the barge returned to New York, where the waste was finally incinerated and the ashes placed in a landfill. A garbage crisis is at hand. The situation has not improved since the Mobro incident. As a society we are generating far too much waste, especially in North America. At the same time, places to dispose of it are becoming limited. The public and politicians have recognized the inherent dangers of existing landfills and are refusing to build new ones—or, as in the case of the Mobro, they are refusing to accept any more waste than is necessary. How did we get into such a mess? The first recorded regulations to control municipal waste were implemented during the Minoan civilization, which flourished in Crete from 3000 to 1000 B.C. Solid wastes from the capital, Knossos, were placed in large pits and covered with layers of earth at intervals (Wilson, 1977). This basic method of landfilling has remained relatively unchanged right up to the present day. In Athens, by 500 B.C. it was required that garbage be disposed of at least 1.5 kilometers from the city walls. Each household was responsible for collecting its own garbage and taking it to the disposal site. The first garbage collection service was established during the period of the Roman Empire. Householders tossed their refuse into the streets, and then it was shoveled onto horse-drawn carts and transported to an open pit, often located within the community. The bodies of dead animals (and sometimes people) were buried in pits outside the towns to spare inhabitants their odor.
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Charbonneau, Oliver. "Introduction." In Civilizational Imperatives, 1–23. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750724.003.0001.

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This chapter recounts the story of Americans and Moros in colonial Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago. It ranges from 1899, when U.S. military forces relieved the Spanish garrison at Zamboanga, to 1941, when Japan invaded the Commonwealth of the Philippines. It also considers the Spanish legacy in Mindanao-Sulu and American precolonial contacts with the region. The chapter elaborates the minor role of Muslim-majority areas in many histories of the American Philippines and explains the historiographical absence that perpetuates trends originating in American and Christian Filipino colonial imaginaries. It points out how the South's position as a politically and culturally subordinate space in an emerging nation-state created the preconditions for its marginalization in the literature on the U.S. colonial empire.
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Angelakis, Andreas N. "Urban hydro-technologies in Crete, Greece through the centuries." In The Cultural Dynamics in Water Management from Ancient History to the Present Age, 35–50. IWA Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/9781789062045_0037.

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Abstract The history of water supply and wastewater engineering in Crete, Greece dates back more than ca. 5,000 years, to the early Bronze Age. One of most advanced achievements in Minoan palaces and other settlements was the architectural and hydraulic functions of water supply and sewerage systems. Minoan hydro-technologies were diffused to Greek mainland, where more advanced sophisticated hydro-technologies were invented, with a peak during the Classical and Hellenistic periods, when they spread over from Greece to India in east and Egypt in the south. The Roman Empire, which replaced Greek rule in most of this area, inherited the hydro-technologies and further developed them, thereby changing their scale of application. Urban water and waste- and storm-water management in Crete were very little improved in both in principle and in scale, during the Byzantine and Venetian periods; however, those constitute the underpinning of modern achievements in water engineering and management practices. The scope of this chapter is to present the most characteristic examples of ancient hydraulic works and related hydro-technologies and their uses through Cretan civilizations.
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Devolder, Maud. "Architectural Energetics and Late Bronze Age Cretan Architecture: Measuring the Scale of Minoan Building Projects." In Minoan Architecture and Urbanism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793625.003.0010.

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It may appear to be asking too much of archaeological evidence to attempt an assessment of the scale of Minoan building projects, their impact on communities, or the role of the labour-time needed for the construction of various kinds of masonry. By taking a firmly materialist perspective, however, the present paper offers an exploration of some of the parameters at play in the production of Minoan architecture. Architectural energetics is a method that translates a building into the labourtime necessary for its construction, a value expressed in person-days or person-hours (abbreviated p-d and p-h). Estimations are based on standard units of time necessary to accomplish each task making up the architectural project: the procurement of raw materials, their transport, manufacture, and assembling. These are most generally expressed in volumes per hour per person, and referred to as ‘standard costs’, which are applied to the volumes of edifices and thus determine the labour-time necessary for their construction. The first assessments of the duration and manpower of ancient building projects mainly appeared in the form of subjective labour-time estimates triggered by romantic views of the grandeur of early civilizations (Andrews 1877; Humboldt 1816; Squier and Davis 1848; Stephens 1841; Webster 1997: 219). Around the middle of the twentieth century, a growing body of publications started to make use of such estimates in order to correlate the magnitude of building or agricultural projects with particular stages of sociopolitical organization (Adams 1975; Cook 1947; Cottrell 1955; Erasmus 1965; Heizer 1960, 1966; Kaplan 1963; White 1949, 1959). Among the most prominent figures of this early trend was C. J. Erasmus, who led a series of experiments that aimed to provide objective quantification of building costs (Erasmus 1965). From the 1970s onwards, largely connected with a renewed research agenda promoting scientific methods of data recovery and interpretation of the archaeological record, quantitative assessments of architectural projects flourished (Aaberg and Bonsignore 1975; Arnold and Ford 1980; Carmean 1991; Cheek 1986; Craig, Holmlund, and Clark 1998; Hard et al. 1999; Price 1982; Trigger 1990; Webster 1985; Webster and Kirker 1995).
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Conference papers on the topic "Minoan civilization"

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Ostroushko, Alexander Vladimirovich. "Protection Of The Information Rights Of Minors In The Digital Society." In International Scientific Congress «KNOWLEDGE, MAN AND CIVILIZATION». European Publisher, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.05.162.

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Felicia, Suciu, Roșca Adrian Cosmin, Lupu Carmen, Popescu Antoanela, and Badea Victoria. "DETERMINATION OF POLYPHENOLIC COMPOUNDS OF LYSIMACHIA NUMMULARIA L." In GEOLINKS Conference Proceedings. Saima Consult Ltd, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/geolinks2021/b1/v3/08.

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"The history of medicinal plants is associated with the evolution of civilization. In all regions of the world, the history of nations shows that these plants have always occupied an important place in medicine, in cosmetic products, and culinary preparations. The paper aims to determine the total polyphenols in different parts of the species Lysimachia nummularia L. In our study, we focused on the extraction of polyphenolic compounds in different solvents. The solvents used in the extraction were: 40% ethanol, concentrated methanol, in water. The total polyphenol content was determined by spectrophotometric methods, a method from the European Pharmacopoeia 10.0, with minor modifications. The total polyphenol content of different extracts varied depending on the extraction process. Different parts of the plant and different solvents were used in the determinations carried out to establish the optimal extraction method for the organs of Lysimachia nummularia L."
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Tarasova, Anna. "International and national standards of the right to health and their modern development. Protection of the rights of special patients - minors: civilizational choice vs individual rights." In The 20th anniversary of Russia's accession to the Council of Europe. History and prospects ». ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/23308.

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Grunt, Elena, and Ludmila Russkikh. "The Urban Identity of an Ural Metropolis in the Sociological Paradigm." In The Public/Private in Modern Civilization, the 22nd Russian Scientific-Practical Conference (with international participation) (Yekaterinburg, April 16-17, 2020). Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities, Yekaterinburg, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35853/ufh-public/private-2020-31.

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The article examines the urban identity of the inhabitants of the Ural metropolis. Today, urbanisation has reached an enormous scale and speed of development, and these processes cannot but have an impact on certain changes in human life. For people to live productively, there must be some common ground, something to unite them, something to hold them together. Urban identity is the inception of unity. The study is aimed at the analysis of what city dwellers think about the existence/absence of urban identity. The study was conducted in 2018 in Yekaterinburg, which is one of the largest metropolises in the Urals; for the purpose of the research, qualitative and quantitative strategies were applied. During the study, 345 Yekaterinburg residents were enquired via the combination questionnaire method (online survey, street interview). The sampling was random. Respondents were randomly sampled from city residents born in Yekaterinburg and having resided in the city for over 20 years. The study revealed that Yekaterinburg residents recognise the existence of urban identity in the metropolis. City residents attribute major significance to local identity (47.0 % of respondents). Its indicators are the residents’ engagement with the city, the urban space, knowledge of the city’s culture, and being born in or living in the metropolis for a long time. Territorial and national identities are of minor significance in the practice of integration into urban space. The survey found that every second person surveyed thinks that ideally one should be born and grow up in Yekaterinburg, passing through all the stages of socialisation, and if they were not born, then they should live in the city for at least 10 years to be a true resident of Yekaterinburg.
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