Mediterranean

CANCELLED: Aegean Archaeology Group, Monday 21 November

Dear all, Dr Ellen Finn has to postpone her talk, that was scheduled for today, for personal reasons. Her talk, Moving, Making, Meaning: Manuports in the Archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean, will now take place next term. We apologise for the short notice.

With all best wishes, Polina & Andriana

Several changes occurred in the society and economy of Crete following the Roman occupation in 67 BC. The island's transition into the Empire changed the shape of the cultural landscape of Crete, both in the interior and the coasts. The new administrative system, in combination with the end of endemic warfare and the vast exploitation of the sea, liberated the island from its hostile past by shaping its new ‘Roman’ identity.

This presentation investigates the role of material culture in the development of human intersubjectivity and emergent complexity in the context of the Cycladic Early Bronze Age.The term social complexity has largely functioned as a means of repackaging passé notions of barbarism, civilisation, and progress into more acceptable academic terminology.