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Day, Peter M.; Hein, Anno; Joyner, Louise; Kilikoglou, Vassilis; Kiriatzi, Evangelia; Tsolakidou, A.; Wilson, David E.

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“…[ 81 , 82 ]. It is thus more productive to focus on reconstructing and mapping cultural traditions as evidenced through ‘communities of practice’ [ 182 ], be they at the site-specific, local, or regional level, where identities were part created and maintained through these agents’ participation in exclusive political networks / economic systems / ideological practices, relationships that have material consequences in the form of shared modes of production and consumption [ 109 , 135 ]. Methodologically this is something archaeologists are eminently capable of documenting through integrated characterisation studies [ 112 , 183 ], something those working with obsidian sourcing analyses are in an excellent position to develop.…”

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“…Such studies are typically founded upon both a rich evidential bases, the data produced by detailed technical, typological, and contextual analyses, and a theoretical awareness concerning the relationships between practice and identity. While in certain instances such work has led to hypotheses that do not forefront migration to explain culture change [ 109 ], it is important to appreciate that these studies have not led to an across-the-board rejection of population movement as a catalyst in socio-economic, technical, and/or artistic innovations [ 70 , 110 ]. That said, one does see a shift towards discussions of much smaller scale forms of mobility, and ‘communities of practice’ to explain the emergence of inter-regionally shared cultural traditions [ 108 , 111 , 112 ].…”

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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

Carter

Kilikoglou

2022

PLoS ONE

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This paper takes a practice-based approach to the study of cultural identity, focusing on how raw material and technical choices involved in the production of quotidian tools served to both reproduce, and reflect a social group’s very way of being. We then consider the (dis)continuity of obsidian blade-making traditions from Middle–Late Bronze Age Malia (north-central Crete), i.e., before and after a period of island-wide destructions, and appearance of foreign elements believed to reflect the arrival of a population from the Greek mainland (Mycenaeans). Methodologically this involves an integrated, ‘thick description’ obsidian characterisation study to detail long-term cultural traditions, including the use of Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) to source the raw materials of 36 artifacts. The results show a significant degree of continuity in the community’s lithic traditions, suggesting that many of the innovative features at Malia can be interpreted in terms of local factions appropriating new and foreign means of social distinction, rather than wholescale changes in community composition.

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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

Carter

Kilikoglou

2022

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“…portable artefacts and grave forms) and of ideas and technological knowledge (Renfrew 1972; Broodbank 2000; Papadatos 2005; Brodie et al 2008; Wilson, Day and Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki 2008; Cherry 2009; Papadatos and Tomkins 2013). The impact of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic tradition in this area is materially expressed through marble figurines with folded arms (Branigan 1971; Getz-Preziosi 1987; Papadatos 1999), metal objects (especially daggers with raised mid-rib made of Cycladic raw materials: Branigan 1974; Stos-Gale 1993; Doonan and Day 2007), a specific type of pottery known as the ‘Kampos Group’ style (Day, Wilson and Kiriatzi 1998; Wilson, Day and Dimopoulou 2004; Day et al 2012; Davaras and Betancourt 2012; Nodarou 2012; Tsipopoulou 2012b), the so-called ‘frying pans’ with symbolic cosmological and marine representations (Betancourt 2012), long blades of Melian obsidian (Carter 1998) and other artefacts.…”

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Exploring Mobility Patterns and Biological Affinities in the Southern Aegean: First Insights From Early Bronze Age Eastern Crete

Triantaphyllou

Nikita

Kador

2015

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This paper presents the results of a pilot project which combines, for the first time, biodistance and strontium isotope analyses in the study of human skeletal remains from Early Bronze Age Crete (third millennium bc). Information from these analyses offers, in a direct way, insights into the biological distance, and consequently the gene flow and mobility patterns, among human populations in eastern Crete. The results are synthesised with the evidence of funerary practices in order to explore the nature of interaction among communities in eastern Crete. The biodistance analysis supports a strong genetic affinity between the populations represented at the two Kephala Petras skeletal assemblages, while the results of the available strontium isotope analysis favour their local origin; thus the combined results suggest the lack of significant population influx. The biological distance of the two chronologically contemporary populations at Livari-Skiadi, also manifesting completely different patterns of mortuary disposal, is of particular interest since it contrasts with the Petras situation and raises issues of intra-community distinctions, cultural and biological.

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“…Euboea, Eastern Attica, the north-eastern Aegean islands and further to the Aegean coast of Turkey, may also have extended to Crete (e.g. Betancourt, 2012;Day et al, 2012;Doonan and Day, 2007;Wilson et al, 2004;Papadatos, 1999;Carter, 1998;Day et al, 1998;Branigan, 1974Branigan, , 1971. This has been the subject of opposing cultural diffusion and population migration interpretative models.…”

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Mobile (after-)lifeways: People at pre- and protopalatial Sissi (Crete)

Nafplioti¹,

Driessen

Schmitt

et al. 2021

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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This paper discusses the first integrated strontium and oxygen isotope ratio results from human remains from Pre-and Protopalatial Crete, spanning the period circa 2500-1750 BCE, with a view to offering a more nuanced understanding of past populations, their diets, potential origins and aspects of their mobility: in particular, the extent to which mobility was part of these people's lives.Twenty-six human individuals from the site of Sissi were sampled for strontium and oxygen isotope ratio in tooth enamel, while five of them were also analysed for corresponding strontium isotope signatures in bone samples. The human tooth enamel strontium isotope signatures follow a broad distribution that is in overall agreement with the diverse substrate geology reported for the site and its immediate surroundings, as well as with strontium isotope results from snail samples also collected from the broader Sissi region. In a fashion similar to the strontium data, the human oxygen isotope data point to access to different feeding territories in close proximity to the site and possibly also to variation in the composition of childhood diet, while some short-range immigration cannot be excluded either.Isotope data variation and the inferred maximization of the exploitation of arable land to extend the agricultural resource base is largely in tune with contemporary socio-economic developments, settlement nucleation and population growth on Crete towards the late Prepalatial period. Moreover, use of multiple production zones by the people at Sissi may also be seen as a buffer against climate instability and vulnerability of coastal sites.Based on these data we conclude that mobility was part of the life of people at Sissi. They were either moving as part of their daily routine to exploit food resources, or in relation to marital network systems some of them had moved in from nearly sites, or both the above.

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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change: Characterizing obsidian consumption at ‘Mycenaean’ Quartier Nu, Malia (Crete)

Exploring Mobility Patterns and Biological Affinities in the Southern Aegean: First Insights From Early Bronze Age Eastern Crete

Mobile (after-)lifeways: People at pre- and protopalatial Sissi (Crete)

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