A Regional Survey and Analyses of the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 1

A Regional Survey and Analyses of the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 1
Author: Barbara Hayden
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1934536202

Vrokastro remains one of the few Early Iron Age settlements excavated in Crete, and it is key to understanding the nature and history of regional settlement during this period. Volume I of the Vrokrastro survey presents the first catalogue of the pottery excavated from the settlement and cemeteries by Edith Hall in 1910 and 1912, along with a brief analysis of metal objects from the town and its cemeteries and new profile drawings and photographs. This site is important for its size, long settlement history that includes both the Bronze and Early Iron Age, and its artifacts, which reveal a local pottery tradition and contacts with other areas of Crete and the Aegean. In addition, Vrokastro is the only completely excavated site within the survey boundaries, and is thus the type-site for the new systematic survey recently undertaken in this area. Barbara Hayden provides new insights concerning the chronology of the settlement and its tombs, the nature of occupation at the site over 500 years, and commentary on burial practices and techniques. She reviews the evidence for contacts with other areas in Crete and the Aegean. This publication will be of use to those interested in ceramics of the period, settlement patterns, history, trade, burial customs, and metalworking. Following the first two catalogues of the Cretan collection of the Museum's Mediterranean Section, its conclusions are an integral part of the overall Vrokastro regional survey.

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 3

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 3
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781931707794

CD-ROM for vol. 2 includes Appendices 1-6 and the Vrokastro archaeological survey project.

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 3

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 3
Author: Barbara J. Hayden
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781931707794

Volume 3 presents the supplementary materials that support the settlement history of the Vrokastro region, derived from intensive and systematic survey. The book presents brief summaries of regional pottery of the Bronze Age, Roman, and medieval to modern periods (with tables). Illustrations include maps, plans, pottery profiles, and photographs of sites, features, and pottery. The CD-ROM pottery catalogue is divided into four main units: Neolithic-Geometric, Orientalizing-Hellenistic, Early Roman-Late Roman, and Late Byzantine through Turkish-Modern. Content of the book's CD-ROM may be found online at this location: http://core.tdar.org/project/376591. Many of the sites have been damaged or destroyed by recent development, and this publication will remain their only record. University Museum Monograph, 123

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 2

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete, Volume 2
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781931707596

CD-ROM for vol. 2 includes Appendices 1-6 and the Vrokastro archaeological survey project.

Roman Crete: New Perspectives

Roman Crete: New Perspectives
Author: Jane E. Francis
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785700960

The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and intensive research on artifacts, history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant data for assessing Crete alongside other Roman provinces. New research has also meant a reevaluation of old data in light of new discoveries, and the history and archaeology of Crete is now being rewritten. The breadth of topics addressed by the papers in this volume is an indication of Crete’s vast archaeological potential for contributing to current academic issues such as Romanization/acculturation, climate and landscape studies, regional production and distribution, iconographic trends, domestic housing, economy and trade, and the transition to the late-Antique era. These papers confirm Crete’s place as a fully realized participant in the Roman world over the course of many centuries but also position it as a newly discovered source of academic inquiry.

South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros

South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros
Author: Emilia Oddo
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2022-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803271310

Contributions investigate the settlement patterns, maritime connectivity, and material culture of the southeast of Crete in a diachronic fashion, in an attempt to define it as a region and trace its history. Papers focus primarily on the archaeology of the sites along the coastal strip spanning between the Myrtos Valley and Kato Zakros.

Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture
Author: Michela Spataro
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782979506

The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socioeconomic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian ‘technomic’ category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioral schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence.

Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling

Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling
Author: Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789693209

In this book, based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in 2017, scholars, artists and craftspeople explore how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

Classical Archaeology in Context

Classical Archaeology in Context
Author: Donald Haggis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1614519986

This book compiles a series of case studies derived from archaeological excavation in Greek cultural contexts in the Mediterranean (ca. 800-100 B.C), addressing the current state of the field, the goals and direction of Greek archaeology, and its place in archaeological thought and practice. Overviews of archaeological sites and analyses of assemblages and contexts explore how new forms of data; methods of data recovery and analysis; and sampling strategies have affected the discourse in classical archaeology and the range of research questions and strategies at our disposal. Recent excavations and field practices are steering the way that we approach Greek cultural landscapes and form broader theoretical perspectives, while generating new research questions and interpretive frameworks that in turn affect how we sample sites, collect and study material remains, and ultimately construct the archaeological record. The book confronts the implications of an integrated dialogue between realms of data and interpretive methodologies, addressing how reengagement with the site, assemblage, or artifact, from the excavation context can structure the way that we link archaeological and systemic contexts in classical archaeology.

Kavousi IIC

Kavousi IIC
Author: INSTAP Academic Press
Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1623034051

This book is the third volume in the final report of the cleaning and excavations at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Vronda-located near Kavousi in eastern Crete-that were conducted between 1983 and 1992. Detailed analyses of the architecture, pottery, other finds (including figurines and stone tools), and botanical and faunal remains are presented in this volume, along with a complete history of the site and an attempt to reconstruct the social, political, and religious organization of the settlement.