The Historiography of Landscape Research on Crete

Gkiasta, Marina

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“…Other neighbouring major urban centres include Myrtos Pyrgos to the south and Gournia to the east. The study area was selected due to the availability of good quality digital data based on extensive information obtained from archaeological surveys, which is representative of the historical and environmental diversity of the period and region under study (Gkiasta, 2008).…”

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Deletion/Substitution/Addition (DSA) model selection algorithm applied to the study of archaeological settlement patterning

Fernandes

Geeven

Soetens

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Deletion/Substitution/Addition (DSA) model selection algorithm applied to the study of archaeological settlement patterning

Fernandes

Geeven

Soetens

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Surface surveys still occupy a prominent position in archaeological research on Crete (e.g., Greco et al, 2002;Moody et al, 2003;Hayden et al, 2004;Betancourt, Davaras, & Hope Simpson, 2004Haggis et al, 2005). A recent and comprehensive analysis of the archaeological surveys carried out on Crete has recently been proposed by Gkiasta (2008). The body of work previously sketched has actively participated in breaking down the once crisp boundary separating the Cretan Neolithic and Bronze Age.…”

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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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“…9 Bevan 2002, 217. 10 See Gkiasta (2008) for an overview. 11 But see Moody (2012) for an important attempt to take into account all the different production zones and their likely economic products.…”

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Toward a Definition of Minoan Agro-Pastoral Landscapes: Results of the Survey at Palaikastro (Crete)

Orengo

Knappett

2018

American Journal of Archaeology

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Agricultural production and the palatial redistribution of staples have played a key role in the debate concerning the emergence of social complexity in Minoan Crete. However, much of the focus has fallen on major settlements where such products were consumed, rather than on the landscape where agricultural surplus was produced. While there is no shortage of landscape surveys on Crete, their emphasis has typically been on the distribution of rural settlements instead of on identifying landscape structures and arrangements-such as terraces, enclosures, and field systems-that might provide data about a territory's economic focus. A key aim of the new survey at Palaikastro has been to address this bias. By combining extensive archaeological survey with differential GPS (DGPS) measurements, high-resolution aerial photography, and microrelief generation and analysis, the project has identified hundreds of structures, forming an almost continuous fossilized landscape and providing important clues on landscape management practices. The results highlight the importance of pastoral practices, to which a large part of the landscape was dedicated. Agricultural arrangements were also documented in the form of terraced areas adapted for dryland agriculture and reflecting concerns for soil retention. We argue that a highly structured landscape, indicative of pressures in land use, was established during the Middle and Late Minoan periods across Palaikastro's territory. 1 introduction When archaeologists first started to take into account the local socioeconomic conditions on Bronze Age Crete for explaining the emergence of complexity, they could hardly ignore the substantial storage facilities at each of the main palatial sites of Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia. These facilities seemed ideally suited to the accumulation and control of large quantities of 1 Th is fi eldwork was completed with permit ΥΠΠΟΤ/ΓΔΑΠΚ/ΑΡΧ/Α2/Φ1/14658/ 240, under the auspices of the British School at Athens. We are most grateful to the Lasithi Ephorate of Antiquities, the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the British School at Athens. Funding and support was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the Hal Jackman Foundation, and the Universities of Toronto, Nott ingham, Bristol, and Louvain. We would also like to thank Tim Cunningham for sharing his extensive knowledge of the study area and Paul Halstead for conducting ethnographic interviews of local residents and for his willingness to discuss the hypotheses presented in this fi eld report. In relation to Paul's work we would also like to acknowledge our informants at Palaikastro: Manolis Mavrokoukoulakis and Kostas Mazonakis. Discussions with Santiago Riera, Alexandra Livarda, Llorenç Picornell, and Athanasia (Nancy) Krahtopoulou greatly contributed to improvements in the report, but, as always, all errors remain our own. Finally, we would like to warmly thank the three anonymous reviewers for the AJA and Editor-in-Chief J...

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The Historiography of Landscape Research on Crete

Cited by 24 publications

References 40 publications

Deletion/Substitution/Addition (DSA) model selection algorithm applied to the study of archaeological settlement patterning

Deletion/Substitution/Addition (DSA) model selection algorithm applied to the study of archaeological settlement patterning

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

Toward a Definition of Minoan Agro-Pastoral Landscapes: Results of the Survey at Palaikastro (Crete)

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