Minoan earthquakes : breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity / edited by Simon Jusseret and Manuel Sintubin.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. 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.

Part 1. Introduction and theoretical background -- 1. 'In bulls doth the Earth-Shaker delight' : introduction to the volume / Jan Driessen -- 2. Seismological issues of concern for archaeoseismology / Susan E. Hough -- 3. Palaeoseismology / James P. McCalpin -- 4. Archaeoseismology / Manuel Sintubin81 -- 5. Non-invasive techniques in archaeoseismology / Christoph Gr�utzner and Thomas Wiatr -- part 2. Geological and seismotectonic context -- 6. The geological setting of Crete : an overview / Charalampos Fassoulas -- 7. Earthquake sources and seismotectonics in the area of Crete / Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos -- 8. The palaeoseismological study of capable faults on Crete / Jack Mason and Klaus Reicherter -- part 3. Minoan archaeoseismology -- 9. Archaeoseismological research on Minoan Crete : past and present / Simon Jusseret -- 10. An architectural style of openness and mutability as stimulus for the development of an earthquake-resistant building technology at Akrotiri, Thera, and Minoan Crete / Clairy Palyvou -- 11. Minoan structural systems : earthquake-resistant characteristics. The role of timber / Eleftheria Tsakanika -- part 4. Case studies -- 12. Evidence for three earthquakes at Mochlos in the Neopalatial period, c. 1700-1430 BC / Jeffrey S. Soles, Floyd W. McCoy and Rhonda Suka -- 13. Punctuation in palatial prehistory : earthquakes as the stratigraphical markers of the 18th-15th centuries BC in central Crete / Colin F. Macdonald -- 14. Man the measure : earthquakes as depositional agents in Minoan Crete / Tim Cunningham -- part 5. Critical appraisal and conclusion -- 15. Earthquakes and Minoan Crete : breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity / Simon Jusseret and Manuel Sintubin.

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