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Arthur Evans, the eldest son of archeologist Sir John Evans, was born on July 8, 1851, at Nash Mills, Hertfordshire.
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Signs on Vase from Orchomenos compared with Cretan ........ 57 II. Comparison between Lycian, Carian, and Minoan Signs. .. .. 66 III. Comparison of Minoan Signs of Crete and Cyprus ......... 71 IV. Comparisons between Lycian and Carian Signs and those of the Cypriote Syllabary .. 76 V. Phoenician, c., Letters of Uncertain Meaning compared with Minoan Signs. ... 87 VI. Phoenician, c., Letters of Ascertained Meaning compared with Minoan Signs ... 89 VII. Comparison of the Greek Complementary Letters with South Semitic and Minoan Forms .92 VIII. Preliminary Comparisons of Minoan and Iberic Linear Forms 99 IX. Personal Marks on Pots, Phylakopi .. .. .. .. .. .112 X. Hieroglyphic and Linear Degenerations .114 XI. Human and Animal Types on Egypto-L ibyan Cylinders and Prism compared with Minoan Forms 124 XII. Diagram showing Derivation of the Double Sickle and Allied Types on Cretan Seal-stones from Egyptian Button-seals of Vlth Dynasty 128 XIII. Cretan Hieroglyphs or Conventionalized Pictographs 232 XIV. Cretan Hieroglyphs or Conventionalized Pictographs .. .. .. .. 233 XV. Comparative Groups of S, Leg, and Gate 237 XVI. Egyptian Comparisons with Minoan Hieroglyphs 240 XVII. Differentiations of Crook Sign 249 XVIII. Numerals of Hieroglyphic System 258 XIX. Glyptic and Graffito Versions of I dentical Sign-groups ........ 261 XX. Sign-groups only found in Graffito Inscriptions ......... 262 XXI. Transposition of Signs in Similar Groups .......... 262 XXII. Family Tree of Minoan Titles and Personal Badges 266 XXIII. Official Titles 268 XXIV. Signs on Phaestos Disk .............. 276 XXV. Signs in Similar Collocations with or without the Distinguishing Marks .... 289 XXVI. Examples of Parallel Disposition in Sign-groups ......... 290 PLATE I. II. III. IVA,IVB,V,VI. VII, VIII, IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. LIST OF PLATES A Engraved Seals, c., with Primitive Linear Signs. Seal (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Arthur Evans, the eldest son of archeologist Sir John Evans, was born on July 8, 1851, at Nash Mills, Hertfordshire.
He received his education at Harrow and at the universities of Oxford and Göttingen and was appointed a fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.
In 1884 he became curator of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, a post he held until 1908, when he was appointed extraordinary professor of prehistoric archeology at the university. Evans was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1901, was knighted in 1911, and served as president of the Society of Antiquities (1914 - 1919) and president of the British Association (1916 - 1919). His important publications date from his early years of excavations in Crete. He died near Oxford on July 11, 1941. Evans was originally led to take an interest in prehistoric Crete following a visit to Athens, where he examined some engraved gems and ascertained that they were of Cretan origin. He visited Crete in 1894, and 5 years later he purchased the Kephala site near Knossos. He worked at Knossos until 1935. His excavations in Crete were carried out simultaneously with Italian, American, and other British excavations, but his were by far the most productive. Evans uncovered a hitherto unknown civilization of the Bronze Age which he named Minoan after the legendary Cretan king Minos. He divided the materials that he excavated into three main epochs, Early, Middle, and Late, stretching in time from 3000 B. C. to 1200 B. C. Within each epoch he distinguished successive phases of pottery art which he established as indexes of technical and artistic development. His dating, as well as some of his important historical conclusions, was challenged by some scholars as late as 1960. Evans's findings, supplemented by the work of other archeologists, showed that Minoan culture was to a certain degree a formative cause in the Mycenaean culture of mainland Greece. He also found indications of contacts between the Minoan civilization and that of Europe and Egypt. He unearthed many samples of two pictographic scripts named Linear A and Linear B, which he was unable to decipher. (In 1953 Michael Ventris and John Chadwick proposed a decipherment of Linear B, and they concluded that it was written in archaic Greek. Linear A is still undeciphered. ) Evans's work on Crete supplied vital chronological indexes for the Mediterranean culture of the 3d and 2d millennia B. C.
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In 1878 Evans proposed to Margaret Freeman. The couple were married near the Freeman home in Wookey, at the Parish Church. They lived happily.
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