An archaeological survey of the Gournia landscape : a regional history of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in antiquity / by L. Vance Watrous [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watrous, Livingston Vance, 1943-

Institute for Aegean Prehistory.

Series:

Prehistory monographs ; 37.

Prehistory monographs ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minoans.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mirabella Bay Region (Greece)--Antiquities.

Mirabella Bay Region (Greece).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Mirabella Bay Region.

Gournia (Extinct city).

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : INSTAP Academic Press, 2012.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

A regional survey was undertaken in the central part of the Mirabello Bay area: along the northeastern coast of Crete in the Gournia Valley and the northern half of the Isthmus of Ierapetra, ending in the valley of Episkopi, to provide a regional context for the Bronze Age palace and settlement of Gournia. As this survey was the last and geographically most central compared to three other surveys (Vrokastro [Hayden 2004a], Pseira [Betancourt, Davaras, and Hope Simpson 2005], and Kavousi [Haggis 2005]) conducted in the Mirabello region, it ties together the data from all four surveys regarding.

Contents:

The field project / L. Vance Watrous

The region / L. Vance Watrous and Eberhard Zangger

Final Neolithic period : egalitarian and heterogeneous communities / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz

Early Minoan I-II periods : emergence of a stratified society / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz

Early Minoan III-middle Minoan IA periods : disruption and social reorganization / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz

Middle Minoan IB-II periods : growth of regional factions and conflict / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz

Middle Minoan III-late Minoan I periods : the rise of a regional state / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz

Late Minoan IIIA-IIIB periods : depopulation and Mycenaean occupation / L. Vance Watrous

Late Minoan IIIC-geometric periods : retreat into refuge settlements / Krzysztof Nowicki

Orientalizing classical periods : population nucleation and development of the polis / L. Vance Watrous

Hellenistic-Roman periods : expansion of the isthmus in an international era / Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan

Conclusions / L. Vance Watrous

Appendices: A. Catalog of sites / L. Vance Watrous

B. Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery / Donald Haggis

Late Minoan IIIC-orientalizing pottery / Donald Haggis

Archaic-Hellenistic pottery / L. Vance Watrous

E. Roman pottery / John Hayes and Angeliki Kossyva.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Archaeological survey of the Gournia landscape.

ISBN:

1623030390

9781623030391

OCLC:

852658233

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