Glories of the Past in the Past: Ritual Activities at Palatial Ruins in Early Iron Age Crete

Prent, Mieke

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“…as opposed to James . Regarding the transmission of architectural details from an earlier period, see Prent's (2003; 2004) work on ruin cults in Crete as creating a context for preserving the cultural knowledge about Minoan architecture. The threshold with door sockets for double doors in Temple 650 is an Assyrian feature as is the great hall: the long, narrow rectangular room reconstructed as connecting to the ante‐room for the throne room (Gitin et al .…”

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On the Constitution and Transformation ofPhilistine Identity

Maeir

Hitchcock

Horwitz

2013

Oxford J Archaeology

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Recent discussion of the formation and alteration of Philistine identity in the Levantine Iron Age continues to reference primarily pottery styles and dietary practices. Such traditional narratives propose that the Philistines comprised one group of the 'Sea Peoples' and that the cultural boundary markers that distinguished their society in the Iron Age I (twelftheleventh century BC) diminished in importance and disappeared suddenly in the early Iron Age IIA (tenth century BC), with the ascendancy of the Judahite kingdom. Based on data from the Levant (especially Philistia), the Aegean and Cyprus, we argue for a more complex understanding of the Philistines who came to the region with an identity that drew on, and continued to engage with, a broad range of foreign artefact styles and cultural practices with non-Levantine connections. Concurrently they incorporated local cultural attributes, at least until the late ninth century BC, a feature that we argue was unrelated to the supposed tenth century expansion of the Judahite kingdom.

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On the Constitution and Transformation ofPhilistine Identity

Maeir

Hitchcock

Horwitz

2013

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…By honouring it, they accomplished one of the first actions of a state‐organized settlement. As such it would illustrate a theory originally proposed by Alcock (1991), and more recently adapted for Crete in particular by Prent (2003; 2005) and Wallace (2003; 2010 3 ) that the reuse of or devotion to Late Bronze Age settlements or cemeteries was a way of constructing an identity based on the past and promoting the historical continuity of the community. It can then be no coincidence that such a reverence for the past occurred at Lato, which would develop into a major polis, and not at the other Late Bronze Age sites in its vicinity such as the settlements at Kritsa Kastello (Nowicki 2000, 120–3), Tapes Kato Kastello (Nowicki 2000, 123–5), Tapes Epano Kastello (Nowicki 2000, 115–27) and Adrianos Fortetsa (Nowicki 2000, 117–19), the tombs at Kritsa (Platon 1951; 1953), or the sanctuary on Thylaka (Reinach 1913; Sakellarakis 1970; Davaras 2010).…”

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“…Prent (2003, 90) and Lefèvre‐Novaro (2004, 191) have argued that the different cults observed during the G period on Late Bronze Age sites or at visually impressive monuments were typical of small groups of worshippers, to whom association with the past would have been a mark of social distinction. This phenomenon was sometimes interpreted as reflecting a claim for power and authority by rising aristocratic groups (Prent 2003). This, however, seems to conflict with the situation as illustrated at Lato.…”

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The ‘Temple House’ at Lato Reconsidered

Gaignerot-Driessen¹

2012

Oxford J Archaeology

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This paper reconsiders the 'Temple House', a building excavated in 1969-70 on the Temple terrace of the site of Lato in eastern Crete. While the building was dated to the Hellenistic (HL) period and identified as domestic space by the excavator, a restudy of the material from the excavation, combined with an examination of the excavation notebooks, and observations on site, reveal a more complex history of use, unusual architectural details, and a heterogeneous range of dates (from Late Minoan (LM) IIIC to HL) and functions, suggesting original funerary and post-funerary cult contexts. It is possible to recognize the remains of a Subminoan (SM)/Protogeometric (PG) burial and evidence for an Early Iron Age (EIA) and HL tomb cult, allowing a reconsideration of the history of Lato and the process of city-state formation in eastern Crete.

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“…For groups with no written language, objects and places play an outsized role in this construction. Although social memory is often seized by elite or socially powerful groups to legitimize their claim to power and authority (Gillespie 2008;Prent 2003;Sinopoli 2003), its role within any social group-family, religious, or taskbased-is vital to the group's and the individual's identity. However, choosing what is to be remembered or forgotten structures our continuing relationship with the material world (Erll 2011).…”

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Closure and Dedication Practices in the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeastern Arizona

Adams

2016

Am. antiq.

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This paper explores material patterns of structure and village closure among several villages in the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster on the Little Colorado River in northeastern Arizona, with special emphasis on Chevelon Pueblo. Excavations in nearly 200 structures within the cluster reveal a variety of closure practices, including burial of floors and floor features, structural burning, and object placement. It is argued that these patterns are part of a long Pueblo tradition of closure practices used, not to sever connections with a space, community, or landscape, but to continue material connections to these places. Some indications of dedication practices for plazas and features were uncovered at Homol’ovi I and will be discussed as part of broader memory-making practices within the community. Finally, a case will be made that the burning of Chevelon Pueblo may have been a purposeful act of forgetting.

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Glories of the Past in the Past: Ritual Activities at Palatial Ruins in Early Iron Age Crete

Cited by 29 publications

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On the Constitution and Transformation ofPhilistine Identity

On the Constitution and Transformation ofPhilistine Identity

The ‘Temple House’ at Lato Reconsidered

Closure and Dedication Practices in the Homol’ovi Settlement Cluster, Northeastern Arizona

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