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7 - Mobilities in the Neopalatial Southern Aegean: The Case of Minoanisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2017

Evangelia Kiriatzi
Affiliation:
British School at Athens
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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The plentiful circulation of many kinds of materials across the southern Aegean is one of the hallmarks of Minoanisation that all scholars can agree upon. However, what this circulation means in terms of the mobility of people is still very much debated. Are we to think that entire groups of people migrated from Crete to set up colonies across the wider region? Or should we instead imagine just enough circulation and contact for different groups to exchange goods and imitate certain objects and practices? Here we seek to contribute to this debate by assessing two technologies that appear to have been developed on Crete and then transferred in some way across the southern Aegean: fresco wall painting, and aspects of pottery production techniques, such as wheel-fashioning. Such technological practices require extended periods of learning, and perhaps even apprenticeships. We consider what the acquisition of such technologies – surely implying extended exposure to skilled artisans – suggests for the social mobilities underwriting Minoanisation.

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Print publication year: 2016

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