Prehistoric and early historic settlement in the Ziros region, eastern Crete

Branigan, Keith

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“…One possible interpretation of the site is that it was a way-station on a 'pilgrimage route', probably from the east, through the Krousonas gorge, to the Nida plain and the Idaean Cave (ID2091 Also visited by Evans in 1896 was the upland region of Ziros, connected to both the Xerokambos/Ambelos and the Goudouras regions of the southeastern coast (Brown [2001] 225). The region was surveyed by a team led by Keith Branigan in the 1990s (Branigan [1998]; cf. AR 41 [1994][1995] 71), which documented habitation from Late Neolithic to Roman.…”

Section: Eastern Cretementioning

confidence: 99%

Crete (Prehistoric)

Bennet

2013

Arch. Rep.

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Publications of fieldwork continue to appear slowly, but the latest volume of ADelt for Crete, covering the years 2001–2004, appeared in print in summer 2012 (ADelt 56–59 [2001–2004] B5). Inevitably, given the years covered, some of the activity summarized in this volume has already been noted in AG and brief notices of some appears in the decadal summary of the activities of all the prehistoric and Classical ephorias (www.yppo.gr/0/anaskafes; AR 58 [2011–2012] 58). Emphasis here is on those activities not already noted in AG or those where significant new information appears in the new volume of ADelt. The second meeting on Archaeological Work on Crete (AWiC2), alluded to last year (AR 58 [2011–2012] 58), has been published and can be read online through the University of Crete's Library (http://elocus.lib.uoc.gr/dlib/d/0/5/metadata-dlib-1368695830-557833-31681.tkl#). A third meeting is scheduled for December 2013 and will hopefully be made accessible with equally commendable promptness. The proceedings of the Tenth International Cretological Congress held in Chania in 2006 (see AR 53 [2006–2007] 96) are still to appear in print, although e-offprints of individual contributions continue to circulate. New material in this year's entry is therefore drawn primarily from ADelt 56–59 (2001–2004) B5 and AWiC2.The past year has seen a number of significant publications on prehistoric Crete, including the proceedings of several conferences. The publication by the BSA of Intermezzo: Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete (Macdonald and Knappett [2013]), containing papers presented at a workshop held in 2008, complements volumes noted last year (AR 58 [2011–2012] 58) on Late Minoan IB ceramics (Brogan and Hallager [2011]) and on the Prepalatial and Protopalatial periods (Early Minoan to Middle Minoan II) (Schoep et al. [2011]).

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Section: Eastern Cretementioning

confidence: 99%

Crete (Prehistoric)

Bennet

2013

Arch. Rep.

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“…Late FN marginal settlement systems generally take the form of networks of small sites (from hamlets to single dwellings) located on more discrete and dispersed pockets of arable land (e.g., Broodbank 1989 , 320-27;2000 , 149-51 ;Branigan 1998 ). Current evidence suggests that marginal communities continued to rely on mixed farming, supplemented perhaps by forms of economic specialization such as herding, which were appropriate to the specifi c environment in question ( Halstead 2000 , 117-22;.…”

Section: The Modular Household (Ca 3600/3500bc-early Bronze Age)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Neolithic Antecedents

Tomkins

2012

The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean

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At the turn of the twentieth century, excavations beneath Bronze Age strata at Dimini and Sesklo in Thessaly and Knossos on Crete revealed an earlier epoch of human occupation, characterized by stone tools, handmade pottery, and the bones of domesticated animals ( Evans 1901 ;Tsountas 1908 ). Termed Neolithic by analogy with other European regions, it was immediately clear that this was a phase of village-dwelling farmers, the Aegean's fi rst agricultural society. An Imagined NeolithicIn these early years and under the infl uence of nationalist and colonialist agendas, a line was drawn in the sand of prehistory separating the more familiar, village-dwelling, sedentary, pottery-using farmers of the Neolithic and Bronze Age from the more alien, cave-dwelling, mobile foragers of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ( Zvelebil 1995 ). In what has become a modern origin myth for Western society, the development of agriculture and sedentism was viewed as 'an escape from the impasse of savagery' ( Childe 1942 , 55 )-a revolutionary beginning in the development of modernity, albeit one eclipsed in modern signifi cance by the 'urban revolution' and the 'emergence of civilization' in the Bronze Age ( Childe 1942 , 79-163 ;1950;Renfrew 1972 ). To modern eyes accustomed to almost constant change, the nearly constant continuity of the Neolithic seemed backward or uninteresting.

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“…Although a comprehensive summary of Neolithic research on Crete lies beyond the scope of this article (see Tomkins, 2000, andcontributions in Isaakidou &Tomkins, 2008a, for further references), two postwar achievements deserve special mention. The multiplication of intensive surveys, particularly in mountainous regions, contributed significantly to the comprehension of the Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age population dynamics beyond the coastal plains (e.g., Hood, Warren, & Cadogan, 1964;Blackman & Branigan, 1975, 1977Watrous, 1982;Watrous et al, 1993;Branigan, 1998). At Knossos, new excavations were carried out by Hood and subsequently by John Evans (1964Evans ( , 1968.…”

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Socializing geoarchaeology: Insights from Bourdieu's theory of practice applied to Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete

Jusseret

2010

Geoarchaeology

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Because the history of human life is about ways of inhabiting the world, geoarchaeology should play a central role in the archaeological program and cannot be reduced to a mere subspecialty of archaeology with its own autonomous theories and concerns. Hence there is a pressing need for theorizing; geoarchaeology cannot ignore nearly five decades of theoretical debates in archaeology. This contribution endeavors to demonstrate the benefits that may be achieved by practically applying social theories to the interpretation of geoarchaeological results. Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice inspired a generation of post-processual archaeologists, yet the avenues of interpretation that this opened up have barely been explored in approaches in the Earth sciences to the human past. It is suggested that the work of Bourdieu offers the possibility to sidestep recurrent issues of scale and incompatibilities of resolution between archaeological and geological dating. The argument is sustained by an alternative reading of geoarchaeological results coming from Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete.

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Prehistoric and early historic settlement in the Ziros region, eastern Crete

Cited by 5 publications

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Crete (Prehistoric)

Crete (Prehistoric)

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Socializing geoarchaeology: Insights from Bourdieu's theory of practice applied to Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete

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