Excavations at Azoria, 2003–2004, Part 2: The Final Neolithic, Late Prepalatial, and Early Iron Age Occupation

Haggis, Donald C.; Mook, Margaret S.; Carter, Tristan; Snyder, Lynn M.

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“…Prinias in Crete is a large settlement founded c. 1200 BC on a major north–south route. It has been extensively excavated, but its abandonment for occupation only in the seventh century prevents the extensive recovery of strata and objects from 1200–1000 BC in their original use context (Rizza 2011); Azoria in east Crete is similar (Haggis et al 2007). Among shorter-lived sites founded c. 1200 BC, most excavated examples are small.…”

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Mobility and Metals: Insights on Manufacturing, Consumption, Knowledge and Procurement Networks at the Bronze–iron Transition From the Karphi Assemblage

Wallace

2022

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This paper investigates the transformative effects on technology of state collapse and related major cultural transitions in the period 1200–1000 BC (Late Bronze to Iron Age). It documents and assesses a notably large, preserved metal artefact assemblage (mainly bronze) from one of the best-known Mediterranean sites of the period. This is the large mountaintop town of Karphi, recently confirmed through excavation as occupied solely at the Bronze–Iron transition. Few other contemporary Aegean settlements sharing these characteristics of size, complexity and single-period occupation have been excavated, producing a lack of comparably informative metals assemblages. This contextual interpretative study considers in-depth knowledge of the archaeology of the site and its landscape alongside the results (published and discussed in Archaeometry in 2021) of surface HH-XRF testing on the whole assemblage. The latter is preserved in similar condition throughout, offering opportunities for broad internal alloy composition profiling by the latter method, as well as limited general compositional comparison with other assemblages from the contemporary Mediterranean. Comparisons of an interregional nature are attempted through typological, technological and contextual study of the Karphi material. In considering using this range of evidence, and considering how procurement, manufacturing technology and consumption processes around bulk metals and metal artefacts changed following state collapse, the analysis dwells on and highlights signs of locally centred, agent-driven shifts in contact, cultural and economic networks. On the basis of the full range of evidence addressed, it argues that Lasithian groups made specific, informed choices about manufacture and consumption without relying on specialised manufacture and supply from other points within Crete.

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“…Detailed investigation of Aegean lifeways after c. 1200 BC offers a more complex picture (see, e.g. for Crete, Day, Klein and Turner 2009; Haggis et al 2007; Nowicki 2000). Karphi, in the high-altitude Lasithi landscape of central Crete (Fig.…”

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Mobility and Metals: Insights on Manufacturing, Consumption, Knowledge and Procurement Networks at the Bronze–iron Transition From the Karphi Assemblage

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2022

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…3. For previous reports, see Haggis et al 2004Haggis et al , 2007aHaggis et al , 2007bHaggis et al , 2011 Two aspects of the study of Archaic houses are particularly relevant to our work at Azoria. The first is the identity and structure of the Greek household in the Aegean, which has conventionally been held to emerge around 600 in the form of the notional "courtyard house," carrying with it social and gendered as well as functional divisions of space that emphasize the identity of the nuclear family and role of the male citizenry in the social and political landscape of the polis.…”

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The Excavation of Archaic Houses at Azoria in 2005–2006

Haggis¹,

Mook²,

Fitzsimons³

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Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studi

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This article reports on the excavation of Archaic houses (6th-early 5th century b.c.) in 2005 and 2006 at Azoria in eastern Crete. Five houses are discussed: four on the South Acropolis on the periphery of the civic center, and one on the North Acropolis. Well-preserved floor deposits provide evidence for room functions and permit a preliminary analysis of domestic space. The houses fill a lacuna in the published record of the 6th and early 5th centuries b.c. and contribute to our understanding of the form of Archaic houses in the Aegean and the integration of domestic space into an urban context. Disciplines Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity | Archaeological Anthropology Comments This article is from Hesperia 80 (2011): 431-489. Posted with permission. Rights This article is protected under the Creative Commons BY-NC license that allows for downloading and sharing articles, as long as the ASCSA and Hesperia are credited as the source. The articles and works derived from them cannot be used for commercial purposes.

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Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete

Day

2016

Mediterranean Families in Antiquity

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Excavations at Azoria, 2003–2004, Part 2: The Final Neolithic, Late Prepalatial, and Early Iron Age Occupation

Cited by 30 publications

References 31 publications

Mobility and Metals: Insights on Manufacturing, Consumption, Knowledge and Procurement Networks at the Bronze–iron Transition From the Karphi Assemblage

Mobility and Metals: Insights on Manufacturing, Consumption, Knowledge and Procurement Networks at the Bronze–iron Transition From the Karphi Assemblage

The Excavation of Archaic Houses at Azoria in 2005–2006

Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete

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