Minoan Earthquakes

Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity

Simon Jusseret, Manuel Sintubin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

440 Seiten

2017
Leuven University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6270-105-2 (ISBN)

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Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Greece), the romanticized vision of the Cretan Bronze Age as an era of peaceful prosperity only interrupted by the catastrophic effects of natural disasters has captured the popular and scientific imagination. Its impact on the development of archaeology, archaeoseismology, and earthquake geology in the eastern Mediterranean is considerable. Yet, in spite of more than a century of archaeological explorations on the island of Crete, researchers still do not have a clear understanding of the effects of earthquakes on Minoan society. This volume, gathering the contributions of Minoan archaeologists, geologists, seismologists, palaeoseismologists, geophysicists, architects, and engineers, provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary appraisal of the role of earthquakes in Minoan society and in Minoan archaeology - what we know, what are the remaining issues, and where we need to go.
Contributors Tim Cunningham (Universite catholique de Louvain), Jan Driessen (Universite catholique de Louvain), Charalampos Fassoulas (Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete), Christoph Grutzner (RWTH Aachen University, University of Cambridge), Susan E. Hough (U.S. Geological Survey), Simon Jusseret (The University of Texas at Austin, Universite catholique de Louvain), Colin F. Macdonald (The British School at Athens), Jack Mason (RWTH Aachen University), James P. McCalpin (GEO-HAZ Consulting Inc.), Floyd W. McCoy (University of Hawaii - Windward), Clairy Palyvou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos (National Observatory of Athens), Klaus Reicherter (RWTH Aachen University), Manuel Sintubin (KU Leuven), Jeffrey S. Soles (University of North Carolina - Greensboro), Rhonda Suka (Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii), Eleftheria Tsakanika (National Technical University of Athens), Thomas Wiatr (RWTH Aachen University, German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy)

Simon Jusseret is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology atthe University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Aegean InterdisciplinaryStudies research group at Universitecatholique de Louvain. Manuel Sintubin is full professor of geodynamics in the Department of Earth andEnvironmental Sciences at KU Leuven.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Archaeological Sciences
Zusatzinfo	10 Tables, unspecified; 128 Figures
Verlagsort	Leuven
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 239 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
ISBN-10	94-6270-105-9 / 9462701059
ISBN-13	978-94-6270-105-2 / 9789462701052
Zustand	Neuware