Jan Driessen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 184638 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jan Driessen |
| PRENOMES | Jan |
| SOBRENOME | Driessen |
| ASSINATURA | DRIESSEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6146-5010 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The agricultural system of a crisis years settlement
To date, archaeobotanical records for Late Bronze Age Cyprus provide little insight into agricultural activity of the time, such as specific farming systems and cultivation practices. This paper presents the results of an archaeobotanical study for the site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos (LC IIC, c. 1230–1170 BCE): a short-lived settlement that existed towards the end of the Late Bronze Age during a time often referred to as the crisis years on account of…
The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi. Volume II
Sphinx or warrior? A small, bronze head from Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Cyprus
The coastal hill-site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos, located in the east part of Larnaka Bay on the island of Cyprus, occupies a special position in the discussions about the collapse of Late Bronze Age societies around 1200 BCE, the Crisis Years, and the potential role of the “Sea Peoples” mentioned in Egyptian and Near Eastern sources in this collapse. The successive excavation campaigns that have taken place on the hill thus far have revealed the rema…
J. Whitley, Knossos. Myth, History and Archaeology
This account of the history of Knossos forms part of a wider series of Archaeological Histories that discusses the history of sites, buildings and towns from their construction to the present day and it is in this context that Whitley’s pleasantly written – with a style somewhere between the academic and the personal – and instructive book should be approached. Knossos, or rather its studies, are very much alive. It not only forms the core of two…
The death and the (digital) re-birth of a god – 3D virtual refitting of the Palaikastro Kouros
The Gathering
Political Geographies of the Bronze Age Aegean
Cyprus and Ugarit at the End of the Late Bronze Age
Revisiting the Minoan palaces
Scholars have long hypothesised that the central courts of the elaborate Minoan complexes of Crete (c. 1950-1450 BC) were used for ritualised, communal gatherings. New archaeological evidence from the court centre at the site of Sissi offers unique insights into the social practices, regional history and political organisation of this Bronze Age island civilisation. The remains of consumption rituals practised at Sissi's central court, along with…
Mobile (after-)lifeways
Archaeology and Geophysics in Tandem on Crete
Remote sensing techniques, both on the ground (geophysical prospection) and remote (aerial and satellite imagery), have repeatedly shown their usefulness in the detection and mapping of unknown archaeological features and sites, but their results remain relatively sterile and not fully unwrapped if no archaeological verification is implemented to evaluate the reliability of the signals encountered. Employing a more coupled approach of geophysical…
The Santorini eruption. An archaeological investigation of its distal impacts on Minoan Crete
Keßler Torben, Subsistenz und Macht. Palatiale und elitäre Vorratshaltung auf Kreta während der Alt-und Neupalastzeit (Deutsches archäologisches Institut Athen, Athenaia, 9), Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag…
Les urnes funéraires et sarcophages d’Étrurie offrent une ample matière pour aborder la question de la réception du mythe grec dans une société particulière et celle de l’impact des modèles hellénistiques sur une production artisanale. L’auteur part de l’analyse du livre de Fr. De Angelis sur les urnes funéraires de Chiusi pour instituer un dialogue critique et constructif avec les thèses qui y sont exprimées. La tradition iconographique des myth…
Beyond the collective … The Minoan Palace in action
Jan Driessen focused on the formation of coalitions rather than individual power as an important factor in the structure of Minoan Palatial society
An integrated 3D shape analysis and scientific visualization approach to the study of a Late Bronze Age unique stone object from Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Cyprus
Understanding Minoan In-House Relationships on Late Bronze Age Crete
Houses, space, and architecture are ways through which identities and social relations are enacted and performed; they produce and support practices that themselves are needed to reproduce or generate identities and interpersonal associations. As archaeologists, we are especially interested in the ways static structures can be used to identify ever-changing social relations; and this chapter is an attempt to approach the architectural configurati…
D arcque Pascal, Van de Moortel Aleydis, Schmid Martin (dir.), Fouilles exécutées à Malia. Les abords Nord‐Est du palais I. Les recherches et l’histoire du secteur ( Études Crétoises , 35), Athènes, É…
Un nouveau livre de Filippo Coarelli présente, au terme d’un réexamen des principaux ensembles monumentaux de Pergame et de l’analyse des monographies ou études de détail qui en ont été proposées, la première approche globale de ce vaste complexe réparti sur des terrasses, en portant une attention particulière aux édifices et cérémonies destinés à exalter la puissance des souverains et de leurs divinités protectrices. Il contient un nombre import…
‘In bulls doth the Earth-Shaker delight’ – Introduction to the volume
The Late Minoan I building at Vai (Crete)
In 1950, the French School at Athens conducted a brief excavation near the palm forest of Vai in Eastern Crete. This produced a good deal of Minoan material of which some was kept at the storerooms in Malia. This had never been published. In view of the intrinsic importance of this material and following the publication of stylistically and chronologically similar deposits from nearby sites such as Palaikastro, we present here some of the most di…
The Mycenaean Seminar 2013–14
Journal Article THE MYCENAEAN SEMINAR 2013–14 Get access JOANNE CUTLER, JOANNE CUTLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER, PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PEGGY SOTIRAKOPOULOU, PEGGY SOTIRAKOPOULOU Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. DRIESSEN, J. DRIESSEN Search for other works by this…
Malia
The ancient name of the site of Malia is still unknown. Some suggestions have included setoija and Milatos, a place name assumed to have later moved eastward. Located in a fertile, terra rossa coastal valley a few hours by foot from the main Minoan site of Knossos and majestically encircled by the Selena mountains, Malia is a type site for Minoan archaeology for several reasons. Not only was it abandoned at the end of the Bronze Age and hence its…
Philistor
Back to the Beginning
Journées maliotes Malia, ville et territoire
THE MALIA DAYS The Malia Days, organized by the Ecole française d'Athènes on November 2 and 3, 2007, focused on the organisation of space and the exploitation of resources, themes that allowed uniting the approaches of current work on two different scales, those of agglomeration and urbanism, on the one hand, and of the territorial organisation, on the other. All the contributions are concerned with ongoing research, of recent or forthcoming publ…
Crisis to Collapse. The Archaeology of Social Breakdown
Inscriptions peintes en linéaire B à Malia
Στη διάρκεια της ανασκαφικής περιόδου 1990 στη συνοικία Ν των Μαλίων, βρέθηκαν δύο επιγραφές σε γραμμική Β γραφή, ζωγραφισμένες πάνω σε δύο ψευδόστομους αμφορείς. Προέρχονται από ένα κτήριο που καταστράφηκε στις αρχές της ΥΜ III Β περιόδου, σύμφωνα με το άφθονο υλικό που βρέθηκε μέσα στο στρώμα καταστροφής. Αποτελείται η κάθε μία από μία λέξη, πιθανόν ανθρωπόνυμο. Αποτελούν μια νέα απόδειξη για το ενδιαφέρον της Υ Μ III εποχής στα Μάλια
An integrated 3D shape analysis and scientific visualization approach to the study of a Late Bronze Age unique stone object from Pyla-Kokkinokremos, Cyprus
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1986
New excavations were undertaken at Palaikastro in 1986 in the fields lying between the previous excavations and the sea. The remains of two structures and a roadway were found. Building 1 is a monumental structure, constructed in LM IA, that seems to have been destroyed in LM IB, and probably reoccupied and destroyed/abandoned in LM IIIA2. Over the top of Building 1 a less impressive structure was built and occupied then abandoned in LM IIIB. The…
The Gathering
The Archaeology of a Dream
Raccords et quasi-raccords de fragments dans CoMIK I et II
Ό πρώτος τόμος τοΰ Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos τυπώθηκε τό 1986 · 6 δεύτερος βγαίνει φέτο : τριάντα επτά συναρμογές θραυσμάτων πραγματοποιήθηκαν στον πρώτο τόμο άπό τά τέλη τοΰ 1984. Ό δεύτερος τόμος περιέχει εβδομήντα ανέκδοτες συναρμογές. Οι συγγραφείς τίς παρουσιάζουν καί τίς σχολιάζουν δπως είχαν ήδη κάνει γιά τίς σαράντα τρεις ανέκδοτες συναρμογές τοΰ CoMIK Ι (BCH 110 [1986], σ. 21-39)
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1994 and 1996
Work at Palaikastro in the 1994 and 1996 seasons was concentrated in Building 6 in the southern area adjacent to Main Street, where tests had previously been made in 1990–1. It was confirmed that the architectural history of the area ended before the Santorini eruption. Its later use as a walled open space was marked by the construction in LM IB of two wells. These were fully excavated and were very productive of useful stratified material. The p…
Malia
Driessen Jan, Farnoux Alexandre. Malia. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 118, livraison 2, 1994. pp. 471-477
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1991
The fifth excavation season at Palaikastro is reported. The principal discoveries are a floor deposit of the EM III/MM I A period, a well stratified sequence of levels from the MM II A to MM III B /LM I A periods, floor levels of the LM II and LM III AI periods, and a floor deposit of the LM III A2/B period with storage jars and a bull's head rhyton. Also noteworthy are the discovery of mason's marks on the N facade of Building 5, and fragments o…
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1988
A third season of excavations at Palaikastro was concentrated on the central area of the new site where four main structures have been identified; Buildings 1, 3, 4 and 5. This report highlights the more interesting finds, including the head of the ivory statuette, the torso and arms of which were found last year, and the first evidence for the LM II reoccupation of east Crete in the form of a Palace Style sherd and part of a central Cretan Ephyr…
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1987
A second season of new excavations was undertaken at Palaikastro in 1987 in the area of Building 1, partially revealed last year, and in the adjacent fields to the south. Two new structures were denned, Buildings 3 and 4, and most of the plan of Building 1 traced. Features suggesting that Building 1 was public and played a role in the religious life of the town in LM I are the high quality of its construction, a possible grandstand with stone hor…
An Archaeological Survey of the Roussolakkos Area at Palaikastro
In Part I, a survey of the Minoan town at Palaikastro recording architectural features and sherd densities is presented. The survey allows for the town limits to be drawn and the probable location of the town centre to be identified. Possible approach routes are noted and an extension of the town to the Promontory and East Beach areas is examined. Part II is a report on building materials at Palaikastro and the Minoan quarries at Ta Skaria, where…
Revisiting the Minoan palaces
Scholars have long hypothesised that the central courts of the elaborate Minoan complexes of Crete (c. 1950-1450 BC) were used for ritualised, communal gatherings. New archaeological evidence from the court centre at the site of Sissi offers unique insights into the social practices, regional history and political organisation of this Bronze Age island civilisation. The remains of consumption rituals practised at Sissi's central court, along with…
Archaeology and Geophysics in Tandem on Crete
Remote sensing techniques, both on the ground (geophysical prospection) and remote (aerial and satellite imagery), have repeatedly shown their usefulness in the detection and mapping of unknown archaeological features and sites, but their results remain relatively sterile and not fully unwrapped if no archaeological verification is implemented to evaluate the reliability of the signals encountered. Employing a more coupled approach of geophysical…
The Late Minoan I building at Vai (Crete)
In 1950, the French School at Athens conducted a brief excavation near the palm forest of Vai in Eastern Crete. This produced a good deal of Minoan material of which some was kept at the storerooms in Malia. This had never been published. In view of the intrinsic importance of this material and following the publication of stylistically and chronologically similar deposits from nearby sites such as Palaikastro, we present here some of the most di…
Journées maliotes Malia, ville et territoire
THE MALIA DAYS The Malia Days, organized by the Ecole française d'Athènes on November 2 and 3, 2007, focused on the organisation of space and the exploitation of resources, themes that allowed uniting the approaches of current work on two different scales, those of agglomeration and urbanism, on the one hand, and of the territorial organisation, on the other. All the contributions are concerned with ongoing research, of recent or forthcoming publ…
Malia
Malia
Pelon Olivier, Farnoux Alexandre, Driessen Jan, Muller Sylvie. Malia. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 115, livraison 2, 1991. pp. 726-750
Some Military Aspects of the Aegean in the Late Fifteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries B.C
Part 1 (Driessen) discusses the evidence in the Linear B tablets for a military organization and the use of mercenaries at Mycenaean Knossos. First, the Pylian evidence for foreign troops is discussed. At Knossos, there is also evidence for relatively large groups of men who may be of non-Cretan origin in the Linear B tablets. It is asked whether these may be foreigners, as in the Pylian tablets, who rendered military service in return for fiefs …
An Archaeological Survey of the Roussolakkos Area at Palaikastro
In Part I, a survey of the Minoan town at Palaikastro recording architectural features and sherd densities is presented. The survey allows for the town limits to be drawn and the probable location of the town centre to be identified. Possible approach routes are noted and an extension of the town to the Promontory and East Beach areas is examined. Part II is a report on building materials at Palaikastro and the Minoan quarries at Ta Skaria, where…
Some Military Aspects of the Aegean in the Late Fifteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries B.C
Part 1 (Driessen) discusses the evidence in the Linear B tablets for a military organization and the use of mercenaries at Mycenaean Knossos. First, the Pylian evidence for foreign troops is discussed. At Knossos, there is also evidence for relatively large groups of men who may be of non-Cretan origin in the Linear B tablets. It is asked whether these may be foreigners, as in the Pylian tablets, who rendered military service in return for fiefs …
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1986
New excavations were undertaken at Palaikastro in 1986 in the fields lying between the previous excavations and the sea. The remains of two structures and a roadway were found. Building 1 is a monumental structure, constructed in LM IA, that seems to have been destroyed in LM IB, and probably reoccupied and destroyed/abandoned in LM IIIA2. Over the top of Building 1 a less impressive structure was built and occupied then abandoned in LM IIIB. The…
Raccords et quasi-raccords de fragments dans CoMIK I et II
Ό πρώτος τόμος τοΰ Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos τυπώθηκε τό 1986 · 6 δεύτερος βγαίνει φέτο : τριάντα επτά συναρμογές θραυσμάτων πραγματοποιήθηκαν στον πρώτο τόμο άπό τά τέλη τοΰ 1984. Ό δεύτερος τόμος περιέχει εβδομήντα ανέκδοτες συναρμογές. Οι συγγραφείς τίς παρουσιάζουν καί τίς σχολιάζουν δπως είχαν ήδη κάνει γιά τίς σαράντα τρεις ανέκδοτες συναρμογές τοΰ CoMIK Ι (BCH 110 [1986], σ. 21-39)
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1987
A second season of new excavations was undertaken at Palaikastro in 1987 in the area of Building 1, partially revealed last year, and in the adjacent fields to the south. Two new structures were denned, Buildings 3 and 4, and most of the plan of Building 1 traced. Features suggesting that Building 1 was public and played a role in the religious life of the town in LM I are the high quality of its construction, a possible grandstand with stone hor…
The Drainage System of the Domestic Quarter in the Palace at Knossos
The system is described in detail with reference to the first stone-by-stone plans and photographs of the interior. An analysis of function concludes that the main aim of the system when constructed in Middle Minoan IIA was to drain the Central Court; this remained its primary function until at least Late Minoan I. During the great building programme of Middle Minoan IIIA, the system was expanded to serve new Light Wells, with further additions b…
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1988
A third season of excavations at Palaikastro was concentrated on the central area of the new site where four main structures have been identified; Buildings 1, 3, 4 and 5. This report highlights the more interesting finds, including the head of the ivory statuette, the torso and arms of which were found last year, and the first evidence for the LM II reoccupation of east Crete in the form of a Palace Style sherd and part of a central Cretan Ephyr…
Malia
Pelon Olivier, Farnoux Alexandre, Driessen Jan, Muller Sylvie. Malia. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 115, livraison 2, 1991. pp. 726-750
Inscriptions peintes en linéaire B à Malia
Στη διάρκεια της ανασκαφικής περιόδου 1990 στη συνοικία Ν των Μαλίων, βρέθηκαν δύο επιγραφές σε γραμμική Β γραφή, ζωγραφισμένες πάνω σε δύο ψευδόστομους αμφορείς. Προέρχονται από ένα κτήριο που καταστράφηκε στις αρχές της ΥΜ III Β περιόδου, σύμφωνα με το άφθονο υλικό που βρέθηκε μέσα στο στρώμα καταστροφής. Αποτελείται η κάθε μία από μία λέξη, πιθανόν ανθρωπόνυμο. Αποτελούν μια νέα απόδειξη για το ενδιαφέρον της Υ Μ III εποχής στα Μάλια
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1990
The season's work is presented: this was directed to the complete excavation of Building 5, the possible source of the chryselephantine statuette. The latest additions to the statuette are described
Homère et les tablettes en linéaire B. Mise au point
Avant l'apparition de l'alphabet grec, le monde egeen protohistorique a pratique quatre systemes graphiques differents : le hieroglyphique cretois, le lineaire A, le lineaire B et le chypro-minoen. En depit de certaines affirmations, a l'exception du lineaire B, ces ecritures demeurent indechiffrees. Il est clair, toutefois, qu'elles sont toutes de nature syllabique, en d'autres termes que chaque signe represente une voyelle ou une consonne suivi…
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1991
The fifth excavation season at Palaikastro is reported. The principal discoveries are a floor deposit of the EM III/MM I A period, a well stratified sequence of levels from the MM II A to MM III B /LM I A periods, floor levels of the LM II and LM III AI periods, and a floor deposit of the LM III A2/B period with storage jars and a bull's head rhyton. Also noteworthy are the discovery of mason's marks on the N facade of Building 5, and fragments o…
Malia
Malia
Driessen Jan, Farnoux Alexandre. Malia. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 118, livraison 2, 1994. pp. 471-477
Crisis architecture » ? Some Observations on Architectural Adaptations as Immediate Responses to Changing Socio-Cultural Conditions
Driessen Jan. « Crisis architecture » ? Some Observations on Architectural Adaptations as Immediate Responses to Changing Socio-Cultural Conditions. In: Topoi, volume 5/1, 1995. pp. 63-88
Excavations at Palaikastro, 1994 and 1996
Work at Palaikastro in the 1994 and 1996 seasons was concentrated in Building 6 in the southern area adjacent to Main Street, where tests had previously been made in 1990–1. It was confirmed that the architectural history of the area ended before the Santorini eruption. Its later use as a walled open space was marked by the construction in LM IB of two wells. These were fully excavated and were very productive of useful stratified material. The p…
The Archaeology of a Dream
Journées maliotes Malia, ville et territoire
THE MALIA DAYS The Malia Days, organized by the Ecole française d'Athènes on November 2 and 3, 2007, focused on the organisation of space and the exploitation of resources, themes that allowed uniting the approaches of current work on two different scales, those of agglomeration and urbanism, on the one hand, and of the territorial organisation, on the other. All the contributions are concerned with ongoing research, of recent or forthcoming publ…
Back to the Beginning
Malia
The ancient name of the site of Malia is still unknown. Some suggestions have included setoija and Milatos, a place name assumed to have later moved eastward. Located in a fertile, terra rossa coastal valley a few hours by foot from the main Minoan site of Knossos and majestically encircled by the Selena mountains, Malia is a type site for Minoan archaeology for several reasons. Not only was it abandoned at the end of the Bronze Age and hence its…
Philistor
The Late Minoan I building at Vai (Crete)
In 1950, the French School at Athens conducted a brief excavation near the palm forest of Vai in Eastern Crete. This produced a good deal of Minoan material of which some was kept at the storerooms in Malia. This had never been published. In view of the intrinsic importance of this material and following the publication of stylistically and chronologically similar deposits from nearby sites such as Palaikastro, we present here some of the most di…
The Mycenaean Seminar 2013–14
Journal Article THE MYCENAEAN SEMINAR 2013–14 Get access JOANNE CUTLER, JOANNE CUTLER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER, PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PEGGY SOTIRAKOPOULOU, PEGGY SOTIRAKOPOULOU Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. DRIESSEN, J. DRIESSEN Search for other works by this…
Understanding Minoan In-House Relationships on Late Bronze Age Crete
Houses, space, and architecture are ways through which identities and social relations are enacted and performed; they produce and support practices that themselves are needed to reproduce or generate identities and interpersonal associations. As archaeologists, we are especially interested in the ways static structures can be used to identify ever-changing social relations; and this chapter is an attempt to approach the architectural configurati…
D arcque Pascal, Van de Moortel Aleydis, Schmid Martin (dir.), Fouilles exécutées à Malia. Les abords Nord‐Est du palais I. Les recherches et l’histoire du secteur ( Études Crétoises , 35), Athènes, É…
Un nouveau livre de Filippo Coarelli présente, au terme d’un réexamen des principaux ensembles monumentaux de Pergame et de l’analyse des monographies ou études de détail qui en ont été proposées, la première approche globale de ce vaste complexe réparti sur des terrasses, en portant une attention particulière aux édifices et cérémonies destinés à exalter la puissance des souverains et de leurs divinités protectrices. Il contient un nombre import…
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