An archaeological survey of the Gournia landscape [[electronic resource] ] : a regional history of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in antiquity / / by L. Vance Watrous ... [et al.] ; contributions by L. Vance Watrous ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452510303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : INSTAP Academic Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1-62303-039-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Collana: Prehistory monographs ; ; 37
• Altri autori (Persone): WatrousLivingston Vance <1943->
• Disciplina: 939/.18
• Soggetti: Minoans; Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Mirabella Bay Region; Electronic books.; Mirabella Bay Region (Greece) Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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