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Title:

Alatzomouri Pefka : a Middle Minoan IIB workshop making organic dyes / edited by Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan, and Philip P. Betancourt ; with contributions by Vili Apostolakou, [and twelve others].

Publisher:

INSTAP Academic Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xx, 166 pages, 108 unnumbered pages of figures, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Minoans--Crete--Crete--Antiquities.
Minoans--Material culture--Crete.--Crete.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Crete.--Crete.
Bronze age--Crete.--Crete.
Dyes and dyeing--History.--Crete--Crete--History.
Antiquities.
Bronze age.
Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Crete (Greece)--Antiquities.
Greece--Crete.
History.

Other Authors:

Apostolakou, Vili, 1957- editor.
Brogan, Thomas M., editor.
Betancourt, Philip P., 1936- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Excavation of an important site for the early history of dyeing in Minoan Crete revealed a Middle Bronze Age natural dye workshop with several basins carved into bedrock, pottery and stone vessels, stone tools, and animal and plant remains. The evidence contributes new information on the Minoan trade in textiles during the Old Palace period"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Prehistory monographs ; 62

ISBN:

193153425X
9781931534253

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1140369724

LCCN:

2019055096

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)