The Bronze Age begins [electronic resource] : the ceramics revolution of early Minoan I and the new forms of wealth that transformed prehistoric society / by Philip P. Betancourt.
Publication details: Philadelphia : INSTAP Academic Press, 2008.Description: xx, 136 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9781931534529 (pbk.)
- 1931534527 (pbk.)
- 9781623030094 (e-book)
- Pottery, Minoan -- Greece -- Crete
- Ceramics -- Greece -- Crete -- History
- Bronze age -- Greece -- Crete
- Wealth -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Crete -- History -- To 1500
- Social change -- Greece -- Crete -- History -- To 1500
- Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities
- Crete (Greece) -- Social conditions
- Crete (Greece) -- Economic conditions
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- DF221.C8 B54 2008eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-130) and index.
The change in ceramic technology in EM I -- The clays and the fired fabrics -- The pottery shapes -- EM I surface treatments and decoration and their relation to fabrics, shapes, and methods of manufacture -- Comments and conclusions on the pottery -- The transformation of Cretan society.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.