The skeleton in the closet. Late Minoan II-IIIB ceramic regionalism before and after the final destruction of Knossos
(2022) International Workshop ‘Regional variation in Mycenaean pottery’ — Location: Warsaw (27.October.2022)
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- This paper puts forward a Cretan perspective on the topic of regional variation in Mycenaean pottery. In order to do so, I propose to proceed in two steps. The first part of the paper draws a general picture of our current understanding of ceramic regionalism in Late Minoan (LM) II-IIIB Crete (most recently Rutter forthcoming). Based on this general framework, the second part of this contribution specifically focuses on the LM IIIA2 phase, the time of the final collapse of the palace of Knossos, and with it, the end of its centralized administration and tight political control of a large part of Crete (most recently D’Agata et al. 2022). Despite being taken as a major turning point in the history of Minoan ceramic regionalism, the LM IIIA2 phase remains a period difficult to define at a certain number of sites, both stratigraphically and ceramically. Much effort is still needed to better explain, on the basis of a bottom-up approach to our assemblages, the transition between two phenomena on which there is some consensus: from the impressive stylistic uniformity of the LM IIIA1 repertoire, to the widespread regionalism of LM IIIB pottery. By proposing an assessment of the changing patterns of ceramic uniformity versus localism or regionalism in another Aegean region, Crete, this paper aims to offer a useful counterpoint to the discussion on the manifold aspects of regional variability in Mycenaean pottery.
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Langohr, C. (2022). The skeleton in the closet. Late Minoan II-IIIB ceramic regionalism before and after the final destruction of Knossos. International Workshop ‘Regional variation in Mycenaean pottery’, Warsaw. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/239999