Excavatons at Kavousi, Crete, 1989 and 1990

Gesell, Geraldine C.; Day, Leslie Preston; Coulson, William D. E.

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“…On the other hand it differs from kylikes of the Late Minoan IIIB–C transition or the early IIIC period which have very slim, straight stems as well as very shallow, curved-profile bowls (Nowicki 2008a, figs. 45–6, 49; see also Gesell, Day and Coulson 1995, fig. 14.1).…”

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Surviving Crisis: Insights From New Excavation at Karphi, 2008

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Mylona

2012

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Seventy years after its first investigation, Karphi (Karfi) on Crete was the subject of a new pilot excavation in 2008. The main aim was to provide the first up-to-date detailed contextual records for the site across a representative area, thus filling in interpretative gaps left by the original extensive excavation. This paper presents and analyses these records with the aim of investigating the likely complexity of social systems at one of the largest new communities founded in Crete after the collapse of Bronze Age states c.1200 bc. Recent research has tended to focus on small villages, or on sites which later developed into poleis, meaning that crisis-period remains are poorly preserved. Occupied only between the crisis horizon of c.1200 bc and an important nucleation of Cretan communities at large ‘proto-polis’ settlements occurring in the early tenth century, the large Karphi site offers insight into the special challenges of creating large, potentially diverse new communities in crisis circumstances. It has one of the most dramatic of the new settlement locations, on steep-sided peaks 1100 m above sea level in an area which had never previously been settled. The social and economic adjustments needed here were particularly sharp and urgent, and the paper examines the structures which enabled them, using preliminary analyses of bioarchaeological data from the new project to assist reconstruction of the economy. The site has had other, highly specialised uses in its history, on which the new excavation has thrown light. The results highlight not only the resonance of this landscape in ancient consciousness, but also the ways in which such resonance could be exploited, both in the socially volatile post-collapse period and in the context of enhanced social and economic complexity as polis states started to come into being. Finally, a first set of radiocarbon dates from the new excavation is presented and assessed with regard to the dating of the Cretan Bronze to Iron Age transition and its wider ramifications.

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Surviving Crisis: Insights From New Excavation at Karphi, 2008

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Mylona

2012

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…Recent excavations and surveys conducted on Crete since the 1970s, as well as the publication of synthetic material studies, allow for a reconsideration of Lato (Preston Day et al . 2009; Gesell et al . 1983; 1985; 1988; 1990; 1991; 1995; Haggis 2005; Haggis et al .…”

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The ‘Temple House’ at Lato Reconsidered

Gaignerot-Driessen¹

2012

Oxford J Archaeology

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This paper reconsiders the 'Temple House', a building excavated in 1969-70 on the Temple terrace of the site of Lato in eastern Crete. While the building was dated to the Hellenistic (HL) period and identified as domestic space by the excavator, a restudy of the material from the excavation, combined with an examination of the excavation notebooks, and observations on site, reveal a more complex history of use, unusual architectural details, and a heterogeneous range of dates (from Late Minoan (LM) IIIC to HL) and functions, suggesting original funerary and post-funerary cult contexts. It is possible to recognize the remains of a Subminoan (SM)/Protogeometric (PG) burial and evidence for an Early Iron Age (EIA) and HL tomb cult, allowing a reconsideration of the history of Lato and the process of city-state formation in eastern Crete.

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Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete

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2016

Mediterranean Families in Antiquity

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Excavatons at Kavousi, Crete, 1989 and 1990

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Surviving Crisis: Insights From New Excavation at Karphi, 2008

Surviving Crisis: Insights From New Excavation at Karphi, 2008

The ‘Temple House’ at Lato Reconsidered

Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete

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