TY - BOOK
T1 - Getting power from old bones
T2 - Two Mediterranean museums and their importance
AU - Davidson, Iain
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In this lecture Iain Davidson talks about his introduction to archaeological analysis in the Stratigraphic Museum at Knossos, Crete and his later work based in the Museum of the Servicio de Prehistória de Valencia, Spain. The bones from Knossos allow comparison between the myths about animals at Knossos, the Linear B texts about animals and the reality of animals in everyday life. The bones from Parpalló allowed Iain to investigate the emergence of hunting by Ice Age people of Spain; but, in combination with the study of the art from the same cave, he also studied the emergence of socially defined power, and symbolic construction of identity earlier than the introduction of agriculture to Western Europe.
AB - In this lecture Iain Davidson talks about his introduction to archaeological analysis in the Stratigraphic Museum at Knossos, Crete and his later work based in the Museum of the Servicio de Prehistória de Valencia, Spain. The bones from Knossos allow comparison between the myths about animals at Knossos, the Linear B texts about animals and the reality of animals in everyday life. The bones from Parpalló allowed Iain to investigate the emergence of hunting by Ice Age people of Spain; but, in combination with the study of the art from the same cave, he also studied the emergence of socially defined power, and symbolic construction of identity earlier than the introduction of agriculture to Western Europe.
KW - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
UR - http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an40862117
UR - http://books.google.com.au/books?id=A2GFGQAACAAJ&dq=1863899995
M3 - Book
SN - 1863899995
T3 - Museum of Antiquities Maurice Kelly Lecture
BT - Getting power from old bones
PB - University of New England, Marketing Services and Publications
CY - Armidale, Australia
ER -