Fouilles executées à Malia. Le Quartier Mu V. Vie quotidienne et techniques au Minoen Moyen II

Jean-Claude Poursat

City: Athens

Year: 2013

Publisher: École française d’Athènes

Series: Etudes Crétoises 34

Description: Paperback, 268 p., 64 b/w figures, 17 b/w charts, 66 colour & b/w plates, 29.6x21 cm

with contributions by Tristan Carter, Élise Morero, Hara Procopiou, Eva Andersson Strand, Joanne Cutler, Marie-Louise Nosch, Daniel Helmer, Abel Prieur, Emmanuelle Vila

Abstract

This fifth volume publishing the excavations of Quartier Mu presents several categories of finds, discovered in the final destruction layer of the complex’s various buildings (Middle Minoan II, ca. 1700 BC). On the one hand, it includes stone tools and loom weights, as well as ceramic objects such as lamps, souvlaki stands, incense burners, etc; these are in some cases the earliest examples of utensils better known from the Neopalatial period. On the other hand, the archaeozoological remains presented here reveal not only the inhabitants’ dietary customs, but also how they made use of their wider environment. This publication thus allows us a glimpse into some aspects of daily life (lighting, diet, weaving), and a fuller description of various specialised craft activities already studied in Mu III and Mu IV.

Contents

Introduction [1]

Première partie. Outils lithiques et techniques de la pierre [3]

1. T. Carter, The chipped stone [5]

Introduction and methodology [6]
Raw materials [6]
Technology [7]
Tool typology and assemblage use [11]
Quartier Mu in context: technology and typology [19]
Conclusions [26]

2. H. Procopiou, Les outils lithiques [43]

Introduction et méthodologie [43]
Les outils de mouture et de broyage [45]
Les outils de percussion [57]
Les outils d’abrasion [60]
Les lames polies [63]
Divers [65]
Conclusion [65]

3. E. Morero, Les techniques de fabrication des vases de pierre [67]

Introduction [67]
La mise en forme du bloc [69]
Le forage [71]
La finition [82]
La décoration [83]
Conclusion [84]

Deuxième partie. Poids de tissage, lampes, divers [87]

4. Les poids de tissage [89]

Typologie [89]
Contextes et datation [92]
Les marques sur poids de tissage [93]

5. J. Cutler, E. Andersson Strand & M.-L. Nosch, Textile production [95]

Introduction: from tools to textiles [95]
An overview of loom weights and weaving in Quartier Mu [98]
Loom weights from individual buildings [102]
From calculations to textiles [115]
Chr. Margariti, Appendice. Fibre identification analysis [119]

6. Éclairage et chauffage: lampes, « braseros », divers [121]

Lampes, lampadaires, divers [121]
Braseros [125]

7. Ustensiles divers de terre cuite [129]

Coupelles à onguent, diffuseurs de parfum et objets associés [129]
Porte-brochettes et divers [133]
Supports tubulaires [135]

Troisième partie. La faune marine et terrestre [137]

8. E. Vila & D. Helmer, Les vestiges de mammifères [139]

Inventaire des espèces [139]
Sexe ratio, distribution des parties squelettiques, pathologies [141]
Aspects taphonomiques et répartition des vestiges [143]
Les âges d’abattage [149]
Conclusions [155]
Annexes [156]

9. La malacofaune [181]

A. Prieur, Inventaire des espèces [181]
J.-Cl. Poursat, Remarques sur les contextes de découverte [186]

10. Les vestiges de poisons [191]

Conclusion. Les travaux et les jours au Quartier Mu [193]

Catalogue des outils lithiques [197]
Catalogue des objets de terre cuite [213]
Abréviations bibliographiques [233]
Index du materiel [243]
Table des figures, tableaux et annexes [257]
Table des planches [261]
Sources des illustrations [266]
Table des matières [267]