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	Arthur Evans Summary
		Arthur Evans, the eldest son of archeologist Sir John Evans, was born on July 8, 1851, at Nash Mills, Hertfordshire.
		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).
		Evans' special interest was the Greek island of Crete, and he was largely responsible for the excavations of the palace-city of Knossos, chief centre of the Minoan civilization, which uncovered the site that is open to visitors today.
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	Arthur Evans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the son of Sir John Evans (archaeologist), a paper manufacturer and amateur archaeologist of Welsh descent.
		Evans' special interest was the Greek island of Crete, and he was largely responsible for the excavations of the palace-city of Knossos, chief center of the Minoan civilization, which uncovered the site that is open to visitors today.
		Evans was knighted in 1911 for his services to archaeology, and is commemorated both at Knossos and at the Ashmolean Museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Evans (354 words)

	Sir Arthur Evans
		Evans' father, Sir John Evans (1823-1908), ran a paper mill and was distinguished archaeologist and numismatist.
		In 1884 Evans was appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
		Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth.
	www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org /evansa.htm (929 words)

	BMCR-L: BMCR 01.02.17, MacGillivray, Sir Arthur Evans and the Minoan Myth
		Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth.
		Sir Arthur Evans marveled the world with his extraordinary discoveries at Knossos that shaped not only our conception of the prehistoric culture known as Minoan on the island of Crete but the very origins of European society.
		Arthur Evans was born in England in 1851 the only child of John Evans, a successful paper maker turned distinguished archaeologist.
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	Sir Arthur Evans
		Evans was born in Nash Mills, England, and educated at the University of Oxford, where from 1884 to 1908 he was curator of the Ashmolean Museum.
		Evans was a product of his time; by today’s standards, archaeologists at the turn of the last century were amateurs, more concerned with finding “antiquities” than with the systematic and scientific uncovering of a civilization.
		Evans states: “The clay archives found in the Palace of Knossos and elsewhere have proved that the prehistoric Cretan had already, a thousand years before the appearance of the first written record of Classical Greece, passed through every stage in the evolution of a highly developed style of script.” (Evans 41).
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	Arthur Evans : Sir Arthur Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Arthur John Evans (1851 - 1941), was the son of Sir John Evans, a paper manufacturer and amateur archaeologist of Welsh descent.
		While Evans was working at Knossos in the period between 1899 and 1935, many of his contemporaries were interested only in removing items of interest from the sites they uncovered.
		Evans was knighted for his services to archaeology, and is commemorated both at Knossos and at the Ashmolean Museum.
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	Athena Review, 3,3: Minoan Crete: Sir Arthur Evans and the Excavation of the Palace at Knossos
		Sir Arthur Evans and the Excavation of the Palace at Knossos
		Evans was born in 1851 in Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, England.
		Evans interpreted the complex layout of the palace at Knossos as "labyrinthine," and connected this with the double-axe symbol or labrys found engraved on columns at the palace.
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		Sir Arthur Evans, who first threw light on the significance of the pillar and other symbols of Crete,1 believes that tree and pillar worship in Palestine and Anatolia was "taken over from the older stock" by Semites and Hittites.
		Up until Sir Arthur Evans' archeological excavations in the first quarter of the 20th century, these tales seemed to be Greek legend.
		In 1902 Sir Arthur Evans published the important article "The Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult." At that time he had not conducted enough excavations on Crete to be aware of the richness of the Minoan material which he would later have at his disposal.
	www.lycos.com /info/arthur-evans--sir-arthur-evans.html (557 words)

	HistoryWiz Books: Minotaur, Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Sir Arthur Evans and the Archeology of the Minoan Myth
		Sir Arthur Evans was the diminutive, fiery archaeologist who, at an excavation in Knossos in 1900, discovered what he called the Palace of Minos and presented to the world his stunning re-creation of Minoan civilization.
		Arthur Evans leapt into the public imagination with his 1900 discovery of Crete's Palace of Knossos, interpreted as the lair of the mythical Minotaur.
	books.historywiz.org /moreinfo/minotaur.htm (850 words)

	Knitting Circle Arthur Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		This is the startling theory at the heart of a new book about Sir Arthur Evans, the Victorian scholar, and his discovery of the palace of King Minos during his landmark excavations at Knossos, in Crete.
		Evans wasn't perfect and he was eccentric, but he was a pioneering archaeologist and a remarkably generous character in pocket, spirit and mind.
		Evans is not, from the outside, a particularly plausible villain and the tactics that MacGillivray must adopt to paint him as such become increasingly desperate as the book progresses: never let a sentence pass without the insertion of a pejorative adjective; never suggest a decent motive on Evans's part if a bad one will do."
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /arthurevans1851.html (1437 words)

	Arthur Evans
		Sir Arthur Evans was born into a wealthy British family and educated at Oxford University and the University of Gottingen.
		Evans became the Curator of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford from 1884 to 1908, and he published numerous books recounting his adventures and discoveries.
		Sir Arthur Evans is admired for his intuition, his creative imagination and his profound scholarship which discovered the first European Civilisation.
	www.thehotel.gr /arthur-evans (226 words)

	Arthur Evans - Phantis
		Sir Arthur John Evans (July 8, 1851 – July 11, 1941) was an English archaeologist.
		Evans' special interest was the Greek island of Crete, and he was largely responsible for the excavations of the palace-city of Knossos, chief center of the Minoan civilization, which uncovered the site that is open to visitors today.
		Nevertheless, Evans generated strange and convoluted explanations for these findings, and in enmity, he actually used his influence to have Wace removed from his tenured position at the British School of Archaeology in Athens.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Arthur_Evans (374 words)

	SIR JOHN EVANS - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOHN EVANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		His eldest son, ARTHUR JOHN EVANS, born in 1851, was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and Gdttirigen.
		EVANS, OLIVER (1755-1819), American mechanician, was born at Newport, Delaware, in 1755.
		He was apprenticed to a wheelwright, and at the age of twenty-two he invented a machine for making the card-teeth used in carding wool and cotton.
	59.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EV/EVANS_SIR_JOHN.htm (611 words)

	Knitting Circle Arthur Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		This is the startling theory at the heart of a new book about Sir Arthur Evans, the Victorian scholar, and his discovery of the palace of King Minos during his landmark excavations at Knossos, in Crete.
		Evans wasn't perfect and he was eccentric, but he was a pioneering archaeologist and a remarkably generous character in pocket, spirit and mind.
		Evans is not, from the outside, a particularly plausible villain and the tactics that MacGillivray must adopt to paint him as such become increasingly desperate as the book progresses: never let a sentence pass without the insertion of a pejorative adjective; never suggest a decent motive on Evans's part if a bad one will do."
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/arthurevans1851.html (1459 words)

	Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth
		SIR Arthur Evans (1851-1941) began his inaugural lecture as Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in 1884 `Our theme is History, the history of the rise and succession of human Arts, Institutions and Beliefs'.
		But Evans and his architects very carefully reconstituted parts of the palace from the direct evidence of the surviving remains, especially the superbly engineered Grand Staircase.
		As for Evans himself, the founder of the subject, whether or not one cares to read Alexander MacGillivray's biography, one should certainly still read that of Joan Evans.
	www.worldagesarchive.com /Reference_Links/Minotaur_Review.htm (1376 words)

	Arthur Evans Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Sir Arthur John Evans (July 8 1851 - July 11 1941) brought into the light of day the civilization he dubbed "Minoan which had been a dim mythic memory.
		He was the son of Sir John Evans, a paper manufacturer and amateur archaeologist of Welsh descent.
		It should be remembered that while Evans was working at Knossos in the period between 1899 and 1935 many of his contemporaries were interested only in removing items of interest from the sites they uncovered.
	www.ebiog.com /biography/3102/arthur-evans/bio.htm (300 words)

	The Little Palace at Knossos \| The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications
		The archaeological material under study includes all the published and unpublished material of the Little Palace from Evans' excavation together with the pottery sherds from the makeup of walls, which were collected during a recent restoration work by the KG’ Ephoria of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.
		Arthur Evans’ The Palace of Minos at Knossos is more of an overall study of the Minoan civilization rather than a detailed publication of his excavations.
		Evans, who was in no doubt of the funeral and cultic nature of the building, envisaged the inner chamber to be a burial plot with the ground and upper floor of the `Temple' devoted to rituals and worship.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Islands/Knossos_97/index.htm (880 words)

	How did Sir Arthur Evans carry out his excavations at Knossos? What are some of his major contributions to archaeology? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Sir Arthur Evans, assisted by Duncan Mackenzie, excavated the Minoan palace at Knossos, Crete, from 1900 onward.
		Evans was not an experienced archaeologist but, as the son of prehistorian John Evans, he knew the importance of controlled excavation and careful recording.
		Evans discovered the earliest literate society in Europe, and gave a name to early Cretan civilization -- Minoan after the legendary King Minos.
	www.digonsite.com /drdig/greece/79.html (145 words)

	----- SIR ARTHUR EVANS, ARCHAEOLOGIST IN MINOAN CRETE -----
		Evans was a British archaeologist, born in Nash Mills, England, and educated at Harrow School, Brasenose College, the University of Oxford, and the University of Göttingen.
		Evans continued his researches until 1931, with an interruption for the duration of the first world war.
		All questions aside, Evans is constantly admired for his intuition, his creative imagination and his profound scholarship.
	www.dilos.com /region/crete/evans.html (651 words)

	Sir Arthur John Evans — Infoplease.com
		Darwin among the archaeologists: the John Evans nexus and the Borneo Caves.
		Contexts for women's manuscript miscellanies: the case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne.
		Speaking for the Dead: King Charles, Anna Weamys, and the Commemorations of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0817940.html (260 words)

	Biography of Arthur Evans--Beaverland Historica for history and culture buffs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		A well-known English archaeologist, Arthur Evans excavated the “Palace of Knossos” on the island of Crete.
		According to Greek myth, King Minos, a tyrant law-giver, had a wife, Pasiphae, who was punished by the Greek god Zeus with a passion for a bull, with which she made love, and later she gave birth to a half-man-and-half-bull monster called the Minotaur.
		It was Evans who conceived of the Minoan timeline, dividing the periods of Bronze Age Cretan culture into three distinct sections—the Early, Middle, and Late Minoan.
	barclay1720.tripod.com /hist/crete/evans.htm (985 words)

	Evans, Sir Arthur John on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Darwin among the archaeologists: the John Evans nexus and the Borneo Caves.
		Speaking for the Dead: King Charles, Anna Weamys, and the Commemorations of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.
		Arthur Levitt and Three Notable CEOs Will Examine Business Turnarounds at Special Breakfast Event June 3 in New York; The Conference Board Presents 'The CEO Dialogues'.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/e/evans-a1j1.asp (362 words)

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		When, a century ago, Arthur Evans first excavated the site of Knossos in north central Crete, he uncovered a dazzling culture that stunned and delighted the Western world.
		On March 23, 1900 Arthur Evans began his excavation of Knossos on the island of Crete.
		Arthur Evans is called a neatherd and had the responsibility for the cows of the town (p.238).
	www.lycos.com /info/arthur-evans.html (424 words)

	Knossos.Introduction
		Arthur Evans was born in 1851 in Hertfordshire England, the son of Sir John Evans, one of the fathers of prehistoric archaeology, and was brought up among archaeologists and antiquarians.
		Evans started work in the area investigated by Kalokairinos 20 years before and immediately came upon the remains of what he described as the ‘Throne Room of Minos’.
		Evans was struck by the apparent absence of fortifications around the site and took this as confirmation of the ‘Thalassocracy of Minos’ described by Thucydides.
	www.odysseyadventures.ca /articles/knossos/knossos_evans.htm (887 words)

	Arthur Evans
		Sir Arthur John Evans (July 8, 1851 –; July 11, 1941) was a British archaeologist.
		While many of his contemporaries were interested in removing items of interest from the sites they uncovered, Evans wanted to turn Knossos into a museum where Minoan culture could become tangible, as he was far more interested in building a whole vision of the past than simply displaying its riches.
		Though deciphering and translating the scripts found on the site always eluded him, Evans recognized that they were in two scripts, which he dubbed "Linear A" and "Linear B".
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewArch/ArthurEvans.html (407 words)

	Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		That the author has issues with Evans is an understatement and parrying all of his attacks (most of which are the authors own unsubstantiated suspicions or irelevant details) is a waste of time.
		He writes that he suspects Evans was driven to pursue his career because of the "repressed 'beastliness' of his homosexuality..." His efforts degenerate further a few hundred pages later with innuendo about a young man Evans adopted and his association with Baden Powell and the Boy Scout movement.
		Evans might learn that he had chased off the other suitors only to find the bride barren of promise and her dowry worthless.
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	Arthur Evans: HistoryWiz HistoryMaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Archeology was moving from the amateur treasure hunt of Troy to a scientific discipline, and Evans was a part of that.
		Evans found many artifacts showing that bulls and bull-leaping were part of the culture, probably
		Ventris was successful, but not until after Evans' death in 1941 at the age of 90.
	www.historywiz.com /historymakers/arthurevans.htm (590 words)

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