Getting power from old bones: Two Mediterranean museums and their importance

Title
Getting power from old bones: Two Mediterranean museums and their importance
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Davidson, Iain
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1840-9704
Email: idavidso@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:idavidso
Type of document
Book
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of New England, Marketing Services and Publications
Place of publication
Armidale, Australia
Edition
1
Series
Museum of Antiquities Maurice Kelly Lecture
UNE publication id
une:2010
Abstract
In this lecture Iain Davidson talks about his introduction to archaeological analysis in the Stratigraphic Museum at Knossos, Crete and his later work based in the Museum of the Servicio de Prehistória de Valencia, Spain. The bones from Knossos allow comparison between the myths about animals at Knossos, the Linear B texts about animals and the reality of animals in everyday life. The bones from Parpalló allowed Iain to investigate the emergence of hunting by Ice Age people of Spain; but, in combination with the study of the art from the same cave, he also studied the emergence of socially defined power, and symbolic construction of identity earlier than the introduction of agriculture to Western Europe.
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ISBN
1863899995

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