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• W4210683868 abstract "Reviewed by: The Bronze Age Begins: The Ceramic Revolution of Early Minoan I and the New Forms of Wealth That Transformed Prehistoric Society by Philip P. Betancourt Donald C. Haggis Philip P. Betancourt . The Bronze Age Begins: The Ceramic Revolution of Early Minoan I and the New Forms of Wealth That Transformed Prehistoric Society. Philadelphia : INSTAP Academic Press , 2008 . Pp. xx + 136 , 69 figures. US $36.00 . ISBN 9781931534529 . Our understanding of the first phase of the Early Bronze Age in Crete (Early Minoan I) has been improved considerably in the past two decades because of new fieldwork and methods of analysis, as well as recent studies of published and unpublished material from known excavation contexts across the island. Furthermore, rapidly developing work on Early Minoan (EM) metallurgy, ceramic production and consumption, and mortuary practices has been balanced by new excavation at settlement sites, providing the material and methodological underpinnings of a discourse on EM I. Betancourt’s The Bronze Age Begins—a recent instalment of the exemplary publications produced annually by INSTAP Academic Press—finds itself in the unusual situation of summing up the ceramic evidence and cultural implications of a period whose material components and contexts remain actively under study but largely unpublished—the book is thus in many ways a tantalizing preview of material and ideas, anticipating things to come. That said, The Bronze Age Begins represents the first detailed and island-wide survey of EM I ceramics, significantly updating, filling out, and expanding the discussion in the author’s 1985 handbook on Minoan pottery, while providing a timely and useful supplement to David Wilson’s chapter on early prepalatial wares in the Knossos Pottery Handbook, which presents the Knossian wares in detail, while commenting on contemporary assemblages.1 [End Page 381] With Betancourt’s book, regional patterns begin to emerge. Bringing together and incorporating into the discussion a vast amount of material from cemeteries and settlement sites from across the island, The Bronze Age Begins effectively and eloquently summarizes chronology and findspots (Chapter 1); details of ceramic forming and firing technologies (Chapter 2); fabric groups (Chapter 3); shapes and functions (Chapter 4); and ware groups and surface decoration (Chapter 5). The concluding Chapters 6 and 7 provide succinct summaries of the data presented throughout, while developing further the central argument of the book, that new ceramic technologies, fabrics, wares, and forms in EM I constitute a revolutionary change from those of the Neolithic, affecting the economy of the island, while facilitating the storage, redistribution, exchange, and consumption of a variety of agricultural products. The crux of the book—and perhaps its greatest achievement—is the presentation of the data (especially in Chapter 5), a richly illustrative narrative of forms and styles that is as sensitive to the technical aspects of forming and firing technologies as it is to the minutiae of regional, chronological, and functional variables of style. Given that our understanding of EM I pottery has been for so long shaped by the Knossos Palace Well deposit and isolated unstratified burial assemblages (mostly in central Crete), it is especially exciting to see a discussion and illustration of an array of hitherto unpublished EM I pottery—for example from the author’s own work at Aphrodite’s Kephali, Haghia Photeia, Pacheia Ammos, and Hagios Charalambos—as well as rarely seen pieces from west Crete (e.g. Gavdos, Nea Roumata, Platyvola, and Debla). The book’s material scope and breadth are remarkable, juxtaposing regional styles and common forms, while drawing on a range of pottery from important stratified settlement sites, such as Kalo Chorio, Poros-Katsambas, and Kephala Petras. Perhaps most fascinating is the detailed publication here of the EM I pithoi from Aphrodite’s Kephali, indeed the best evidence to date for the earliest large storage jars on the island—the beginning, as it were, of a long tradition of pithos manufacturing, a vital component of the economy and society of Minoan Crete. While fragments of pithoi have been found before in various EM I settlement contexts, the state of preservation has made it impossible to understand the shape or decoration of such vessels. Betancourt not only provides detailed drawings, reconstructions, and photographs of no less..." @default.
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