Great talk on "The Deep State in the Ancient World" by Louise Hitchcock at #asor2020 yesterday. First, reinterpreting Minoan "palaces" as "temples" & proposing Crete had a Sumer-style temple-based economy until the Late Palatial Period (1/x)
Great talk on "The Deep State in the Ancient World" by Louise Hitchcock at #asor2020 yesterday. First, reinterpreting Minoan "palaces" as "temples" & proposing Crete had a Sumer-style temple-based economy until the Late Palatial Period (1/x)
Great talk on "The Deep State in the Ancient World" by Louise Hitchcock at #asor2020 yesterday. First, reinterpreting Minoan "palaces" as "temples" & proposing Crete had a Sumer-style temple-based economy until the Late Palatial Period (1/x)
Great talk on "The Deep State in the Ancient World" by Louise Hitchcock at #asor2020 yesterday. First, reinterpreting Minoan "palaces" as "temples" & proposing Crete had a Sumer-style temple-based economy until the Late Palatial Period (1/x)
Proposed a Minoan temple bureaucracy based on (1) benches & meeting rooms near archives & (2) artistic representation of of "faceless" individuals. This "Deep State" may've facilitated/hindered each ruler's (priest-king's?) policies in the interest of long-term benefit. (2/2)
Proposed a Minoan temple bureaucracy based on (1) benches & meeting rooms near archives & (2) artistic representation of of "faceless" individuals. This "Deep State" may've facilitated/hindered each ruler's (priest-king's?) policies in the interest of long-term benefit. (2/2)
Proposed a Minoan temple bureaucracy based on (1) benches & meeting rooms near archives & (2) artistic representation of of "faceless" individuals. This "Deep State" may've facilitated/hindered each ruler's (priest-king's?) policies in the interest of long-term benefit. (2/2)
Proposed a Minoan temple bureaucracy based on (1) benches & meeting rooms near archives & (2) artistic representation of of "faceless" individuals. This "Deep State" may've facilitated/hindered each ruler's (priest-king's?) policies in the interest of long-term benefit. (2/2)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)

(The swords & boar-tusk helmets are Mycenaean)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)(The swords & boar-tusk helmets are Mycenaean)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)(The swords & boar-tusk helmets are Mycenaean)
And, just for the heck of it, here's more pretty-pretty from my visit to Knossos & the Heraklion Museum in 2009 ;)(The swords & boar-tusk helmets are Mycenaean)
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