Wine In The Mycenaean Palace Economy

Wine production was clearly an important activity in the Mycenaean Palace economies as Linear B tablets make clear. However the archaeological evidence for prehistoric vintners has never been systematically evaluated before this book, partly because of the scholarly divided between Linear B scholars and excavators. The author here, however, draws on both kinds of evidence to discuss an industry that reveals much about the relationship of Palaces to ordinary people, and about the way in which Pylos, Knossos and other Palaces bolstered their power bases. Contents: Background to Wine as an Agricultural Commodity; The Development of the Wine Ideogram; Mycenaean Vocabulary in Reference to Viticulture and Wine; Derivatis of `dateomai' and the Distribution of Wine; Wine in the Pylos Commodity Tablets; Wine in the Knossos Fs Tablets; The Impressed Nodules from the Wine Magazine at Pylos; Wine in the Knossos and Mycenae Tablets; The Place of Wine in the Mycenaean Palace Economy.

Provides a diachronic account of the changing roles of surplus oil and wine in the economies of pre-classical Greek societies.

The Mycenaean Linear B tablets include numerous references to religion, such as details of offerings, banqueting foodstuffs or land-tenure relating to cult personnel. While contributing significantly to our understanding of early Greek religion, the documents are exclusively economic and administrative records and the limitations of such sources have long been recognised. Few attempts have been made, however, to analyse the purely economic information about religion we do have in Linear B. Such analysis is essential to understanding the place of religion in Mycenaean palace society. This book asks a simple but important question: What proportion of the resources available to the palaces was directed towards support for religion? Price approx.

This volume gathers fourteen papers on the Mycenaean palace states of the late Bronze Age. Coverage ranges across Mycene, Pylos, Knossos and the Near East, with topics including administration, agriculture, ceramic production and Linear B.

Classical Greeks considered the Mycenaean civilization to be the basis of their glorious and heroic heritage, but its material existence was not confirmed until the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann in the late nineteenth century. In the ensuing years, as with the field of archaeology in general, emphasis has shifted from revealing monuments and finding treasure to dealing with less glamorous, more scientifically-oriented investigations concerning aspects such as social and political organization, economic functions and settlement patterns. With its more than 2000 entries, this reference work serves as both an introduction to and a summary of the study of ancient Mycenaean civilization. Considerably expanded from the first edition, there are 500 new entries representing materials published since 1991. The largest part of the book is made up of annotated bibliography entries arranged topically with introductory material for each section. The book also includes a general introduction to Mycenaean civilization, a glossary, and author, place and subject indexes.

What is Palace Economy A palace economy, also known as a redistribution economy, is a type of economic organization in which a significant portion of the wealth is transferred into the power of a centralized administration, the palace, and then out of the palace to the general populace. The people, on the other hand, may be permitted to have its own sources of revenue, but it is almost entirely dependent on the wealth that is dispersed by the palace. It was originally justified on the basis of the premise that the palace was the most competent of efficiently distributing money for the benefit of society. Another concept that is comparable is the temple economy. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Palace economy Chapter 2: Aegean civilization Chapter 3: Linear B Chapter 4: Michael Ventris Chapter 5: Minoan civilization Chapter 6: Knossos Chapter 7: Phaistos Chapter 8: Cycladic culture Chapter 9: Mycenaean Greece Chapter 10: Mycenaean Greek Chapter 11: Aegean art Chapter 12: Minoan pottery Chapter 13: Amnisos Chapter 14: Gareth Alun Owens Chapter 15: Minoan chronology Chapter 16: Mycenaean pottery Chapter 17: Stirrup jar Chapter 18: Throne Room, Knossos Chapter 19: Plantation economy Chapter 20: Mycenaean religion Chapter 21: PY Ta 641 (II) Answering the public top questions about palace economy. (III) Real world examples for the usage of palace economy in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of palace economy.

This volume presents contemporary evidence scientific, archaeological, botanical, textual, and historical for major revisions in our understanding of winemaking in antiquity. Among the subjects covered are the domestication of the Vinifera grape, the wine trade, the iconography of ancient wine, and the analytical and archaeological challenges posed by ancient wines. The essayists argue that wine existed as long ago as 3500 BC, almost half a millennium earlier than experts believed. Discover named these findings among the most important in 1991. Featuring the work of 23 internationally known scholars and writers, the book offers the first wide ranging treatment of wine in the early history of western Asia and the Mediterranean. Comprehensive and accessible while providing full documentation, it is sure to serve as a catalyst for future research.

This revised and expanded edition of the classic 1999 edited book includes all the chapters from the original volume plus a new, updated, introduction and several new chapters. The current book is an up-to-date review of research into Mycenaean palatial systems with chapters by archaeologists and Linear B specialists that will be useful to scholars, instructors, and advanced students. This book aims to define more accurately the term "palace" in light of both recent archaeological research in the Aegean and current anthropological thinking on the structure and origin of early states. Regional centers do not exist as independent entities. They articulate with more extensive sociopolitical systems. The concept of palace needs to be incorporated into enhanced models of Mycenaean state organization, ones that more completely integrate primary centers with networks of regional settlement and economy.