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  title info:
    title: Dawn of discovery
    sub title: the early British travellers to Crete : Richard Pocoke, Robert Pashley and Thomas Spratt, and their contributions to the island's Bronze Age archaeological heritage
  name:
    name part: Moore, Dudley.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Archaeopress
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (iv, 174 pages) : illustrations, maps.
  abstract: "This work focuses on three important British travellers to Crete during the 18th and 19th centuries to establish whether or not they made any significant contribution to the field of research with regard to the archaeological heritage of Bronze Age Crete. It brings these 'lost pioneers' of antiquity to the fore and to recognize their efforts as part of the foundation of the discovery of the island's Bronze Age archaeology prior to the groundbreaking excavations of Sir Arthur Evans. They are Richard Pococke (1704-65), Robert Pashley (1805-59) and Thomas Spratt (1811-88). Having dealt with the terms that these travellers used in describing ancient remains, the work looks briefly at the background to Bronze Age Crete itself. Thereafter the development from antiquarianism into archaeology is followed to establish the motives behind these travellers' wanderings in Crete. Consideration is given to whether any sites they described might have been of the Bronze Age and, in addition, various views of the mythical Labyrinth are looked at in an attempt to compound the theory that there may have been a certain belief in a period prior to the known Classical era (of the 5th century BC Greece). Questions answered include: How do the travellers' 'field surveys' and discoveries compare with what is now known today from excavation? Were some of their references to 'Cyclopean' stonework an identification of Bronze Age architecture? Do they deserve recognition for the identification of a prehistory of Crete? Why are their names missing from so many books on the history of archaeology and the discovery of Cretan archaeology? This work brings together, for the first time, an understanding of the views and comparative discoveries of three 18th and 19th century travellers of the, then, unknown ancient pre-history of Bronze Age Crete"--Publisher's web site.
  note: Dudley Moore.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-174).
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pococke, Richard
      name part: 1704-1765
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Crete
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pashley, Robert
      name part: 1805-1859
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Crete
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Spratt, T. A. B. (Thomas Abel Brimage)
      name part: 1811-1888
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Crete
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pashley, Robert
      name part: 1805-1859
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pococke, Richard
      name part: 1704-1765
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Spratt, T. A. B. (Thomas Abel Brimage)
      name part: 1811-1888
  subject:
    geographic: Crete (Greece)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Crete
  subject:
    geographic: Crète (Grèce)
    topic: Antiquités
  subject:
    topic: Fouilles (Archéologie)
    geographic: Grèce
    geographic: Crète
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Expeditions
  subject:
    topic: Diaries, letters & journals
  subject:
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
  subject:
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Crete
  classification: DF221.C8 M66 2010
  classification: 939/.18
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      name part: Moore, Dudley.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2010
    identifier: (DLC) 2009512737
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  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 131202
    record change date: 20240725161006.3
    record identifier: in00004799111
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng