The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age

Jean-Claude Poursat is Professor emeritus at the Université Clermont Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the renowned excavator of 'Quartier Mu' at Malia, one of the most extensive town complexes of Middle Bronze Age Crete, and the author of many publications on various aspects of the Aegean Bronze Age. Carl Knappett holds the Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Thinking through Material Culture, An Archaeology of Interaction, and most recently, Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making. He currently directs a fieldwork project at the Minoan town of Palaikastro.

Part I. Aegean Neolithic Art: 1. Artefacts and Contexts; 2. Architectural beginnings; 3. Pottery; 4. Figurines and models; 5. Other arts: ornaments, seals, and stone vases; Part II. The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: 6. Artefacts and Contexts; 7. Architecture; 8. Early Bronze Age Aegean glyptic; 9. Sculpture; 10. Stone vases, metalware, miscellaneous; 11. EBA pottery in the Aegean; Part III. Aegean Art in the Cretan First Palace Period: 12. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 13. Minoan architecture in the First Palace Period; 14. Minoan glyptic in the Protopalatial period; 15. Other Minoan relief arts: stone vases, jewelry, minor arts; 16. Artworks in the round; 17. Minoan pottery; 18. Mainland Greece and the islands in the First Palace Period; Part IV. Aegean Art in the Second Palace Period: Crete and the Aegean Islands: 19. Artworks in context : the historical framework; 20. Aegean architecture in the Second Palace period; 21. Aegean wall painting; 22. Minoan glyptic; 23. Artworks in the round: figures, figurines, and zoomorphic vases; 24. Other artworks (stone, faience, ivory, metal; textile); 25. Pottery production; Part V. Aegean Art in the Cretan Second Palace Period: Mainland Greece: 26. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 27. Funerary architecture; 28. Metalwork; 29. Creto-Mycenaean glyptic; 30. Other Mycenaean relief arts: wood, bone, ivory, stone and faience; 31. Mycenaean pottery of LH I-IIA; 32. General remarks: Aegean art during the Cretan Second Palace period; Part VI. Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos: 33. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 34. Architecture; 35. The frescoes; 36. Metalwork, jewelry and various ornaments; 37. Creto-Mycenaean glyptic in LM II/LH IIB–IIIA1; 38. Other relief arts: ivory and stone; 39. Artworks in the round: figurines and zoomorphic vessels; 40. LM II/LH II-IIIA1 pottery; Part VII. Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period: 41. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 42. Architecture; 43. Mycenaean painting; 44. The end of Aegean glyptic; 45. Mycenaean ivories of LH IIIA2-B; 46. Other relief arts: goldwork, glass, faience, stone; 47. Mycenaean art and 'international art'; Artworks in the round: figurines, figures, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vases; 49. Pottery production: vases and sarcophagi; Part VIII. Aegean Art at the End of the Bronze Age: 50. Artworks in context: the historical framework; 51. Architecture at the end of the Bronze Age; 52. Figures, figurines, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vases; 53. Jewelry and metalwork; 54. Pictorial art and vase painting; 55. Mycenaean art and its legacy; Afterword. Aegean art through forgers' eyes; 56. Fakes and dubitanda.