| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Prehistory monographs ; 37 |
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Prehistory monographs ; 37.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Minoans.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Mirabella Bay Region
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Minoans.
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| SUBJECT |
Mirabella Bay Region (Greece) -- Antiquities
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Gournia (Extinct city) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91002900
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| Subject |
Greece -- Gournia (Extinct city)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watrous, Livingston Vance, 1943-
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| LC no. |
2012015212 |
| ISBN |
1623030390 |
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9781623030391 |
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9781299734555 |
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1299734553 |
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