10 Opening Addresses Session 1 SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERPRETATIONS Chairman: C. Doumas 19 T.D. DEVETZI The Stone Industry at Akrotiri: A Theoretical Approach 24 C. DOUMAS The Elements at Akrotiri 31 L. KATSA-TOMARA The Pottery-Producing System at Akrotiri: An Index of Exchange and Social Activity 41 C. DOUMAS and Pithoi, Size and Symbols: Some Preliminary Considerations on the Akrotiri Evidence A.G. CONSTANTINIDES Architectural Design at Late Cycladic Akrotiri 44 C. PALYVOU Some Changes in the BA Pottery Production at Akrotiri and their Possible Implications 57 A. PAPAGIANNOPOULOU Rites de Passage at Thera: Some Oriental Comparanda 67 V. KARAGEORGHIS The Role of Thera in the Bronze Age Trade in Metals 72 Z.A. STOS-GALE and N.H. GALE Thera's Eruption into our Understanding of the Minoans 93 G. CADOGAN Akrotiri and its Neighbours to the South: Conical Cups again 98 C. GILLIS The Cretan Element on Thera in Late Minoan IA 118 S. HOOD Craftsmen and Traders at Thera: A View from Crete 124 J.-C. POURSAT The Isles of Crete? The Minoan Thalassocracy Revisited 128 M.H. WIENER Thera in the Mythology of the Classical Tradition: An Archaeological Approach 162 C. LAMBROU-PHILLIPSON LB I Ceramic Connections between Thera and Kos 171 M. MARTHARI, T. MARKETOU and R.E. JONES Spatial and Temporal Uniformitarianism in Late Cycladic I: Perspectives from Kea and Milos on the Prehistory of Akrotiri 185 J.L. DAVIS and J.F. CHERRY Evidence for Household Industries on Thera and Kea

201 E. SCHOFIELD Session 6 THERAN ART IN THE AEGEAN WORLD Chairman: J.A. Sakellarakis

214 E.N. DAVIS The Cycladic Style of the Thera Frescoes

229 S. HILLER The Miniature Frieze in the West House - Evidence for Minoan Poetry?

237 S.A. IMMERWAHR Swallows and Dolphins at Akrotiri: Some Thoughts on the Relationship of Vase-Painting to Wall-Painting

246 R. LAFFINEUR Composition and Perspective in Theran Wail-Paintings 15

252 L, MORGAN Island Iconography: Tfaera, Kea, Miles

267 W.-D. NIEMEIER Mycenaean Elements in the Miniature Fresco from Thera?

285 J.A. SAKELLARAKIS The Fashioning of Ostrich-Egg Rhyta in the Creto-Mycenaean Aegean

3§9 C.A. TELEVANTOU New Light on the West House Wall-Paintings

327 J. VANSCHOONWINKEL Animal Representations in Theran and Other Aegean Arts

A1ROTIRI AND AEGEAN RELIGION Chairman: P.M. Warren

35® R.B. KOEHL The Rhyta from Akrotiri and Some Preliminary Observations on their Functions in Selected Contexts

363 J.A. MACGILLIVRAY The Therans and Dikta

370 N. MARINATOS Minoan-Cycladic Syncretism

Session 9 TECHNOLOGY Chairman: C. Doumas

380 I. TZACHILI All Important yet Elusive: Looking for Evidence of Cloth-Making at Akrotiri

390 A. MOUNDREA-AGRAFIOTI Akrotiri, The Chipped Stone Industry: Reduction Techniques and Tools of the LC I Phase

407 A. MICHAILIDOU The Lead Weights from Akrotiri: The Archaeological Record

420 J.W. SHAW Bronze Age Aegean Harboursides

437 T. SALI-AXIOTI The Lightwell of the House of the Ladies and its Structural Behaviour

441 V. KILIKOGLOU, C. DOUMAS, A Study of Middle and Late Cycladic Pottery from Akrotiri A. PAPAGIANNOPOULOU, E.V. SAYRE, Y. MANIATIS and A.P. GRIMANIS

Investigation of the Technology of Manufacture of the Local LBA Theran Pottery: 449 M. MARTHARI Archaeological Consideration

Investigation of the Technology of Manufacture of the Local LBA Theran Pottery: 459 E. ALOUPI and Y. MANIATIS The Body and Pigment Analysis

Petrographic Analysis of the Early Cycladic Wares from Akrotiri, Thera 470 S.J. VAUGHAN 488 E. ALOUPI, Y. MANIATIS, Analysis of a Purple Material Found at Akrotiri T. PARADELLIS and L. KARALI-YANNACOPOULOU

491 A.C. STAMATOPOULOS Volcanic Ash in Ancient and Modern Construction and P.C. KOTZIAS

502 W.L. FRIEDRICH and C. DOUMAS Was there Local Access to Certain Ores/Minerals for the Theran People before the Minoan Eruption? An Addendum 504 Closing Addresses PPN: 023504803 Titel: Thera and the Aegean world / . - London : Thera and the Aegean World, 1990 ISBN: 0-9506133-4-7; 0-9506133-7-1 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund