You are invited to an IIHSA Online Lecture on Thursday, 25th November at 6.00 pm (Irish time) / 8.00 pm (Greek time) by Katerina Vrettou (PhD candidate, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg)

Movability and the regular contacts between different areas in the Aegean during the long period of the Bronze Age, resulted to the Aegean becoming a region where many elements where about to interrelate and shape different cultural traits. The regular andclose contacts between Cyclades and Crete played a crucial role in these developing processes and contributed to the creation of an amalgam of cultural features in Crete where the influence of the Cyclades is observable. This paper constitutes an analyticapproach of the character of the transcultural entanglements that were created between Cyclades and Crete during the Bronze Age. The most crucial question that arises is how the Cycladic ‘foreign’ objects in Crete were perceived by the local population and further how they became adopted, in some cases adapted and in the end integrated in the local codes of communication and practice.

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