文档介绍：RELIGION, SOCIETY AND ETHNICITY ON CRETE
AT THE END OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE.
THE CONTEXTUAL FRAMEWORK OF LM IIIC CULT ACTIVITIES*
1. Introduction
The significant methodological shift undergone by the study of Aegean religion over the
last few decades has cogently shown that cult evidence cannot be considered in isolation, and
at the same time that it can also help reconstruct of social, political and even ethnic
It follows that a model constructed on the idea of cult institutions reflecting different levels of
socio-political integration on scales of plexity may prove This approach
– which requires the recognition of specific assemblages among the artefacts associated with
cult activity – facilitates understanding of variations in the material evidence for cult and also
affords the opportunity to distinguish oppositions, of any nature, in the pattern of distribution
of the material culture. The many difficulties inherent in any enquiry which also takes ethnicity
into consideration need no further stressing. However, we should bear in mind that it is in
conditions of petition over resources that cultural discontinuities may be related
to the boundaries of ethnic As far as Crete is concerned, a striking case is offered
by the central area of the island during LM II - LM IIIA1 – a case upon which the focus first
came to