An Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape. A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity

L. Vance Watrous, Donald Haggis, Krzysztof Nowicki, Natalia Vogeikoff- Brogan & Maryanne Schultz

City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Year: 2012

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Series: Prehistory Monographs 37

Description: Hardback, xxvii & 191 p., 15 b/w tables, 49 b/w maps, 64 b/w figures, 59 b/w plates, 28,5x22 cm

contributions by John Hayes, Angeliki Kossyva & Eberhard Zangger

Abstract

This project was conceived in 1991 by L.V. Watrous. At that time, the Mirabello Bay area had been the focus of excavation at various sites – e.g., Vasiliki, Mochlos, Kavousi, and Pseira – for a number of years. Moreover, two surveys had just been completed in the Istron and Kavousi areas. All of this work left the central part of the Mirabello Bay area, the Isthmus of Ierapetra, and the palatial site of Gournia untouched. For this reason, Watrous approached Costis Davaras, Ephor of East Crete, with the idea of undertaking a regional survey around Gournia to be followed by excavation at Gournia itself. Davaras agreed, and the three-year project began in 1992 with the general goal of providing a regional context for the site of Gournia. The area included the northern coast of Crete in the Gournia Valley and the northern half of the Isthmus of Ierapetra, ending in the valley of Episkopi.

Contents

List of Tables [ix]
List of Maps [xi]
List of Figures [xiii]
List of Plates [xvii]
Preface [xxi]
Acknowledgments [xxiii]
Chronology [xxv]
List of Abbreviations [xxvii]

PART I. THE GOURNIA PROJECT AND THE REGION

1. L. Vance Watrous, ‘The Field Project’ [3-8]

2. L. Vance Watrous & Eberhard Zangger, ‘The Region’ [9-13]

PART II. HISTORY OF SETTLEMENT DURING ANTIQUITY

3. L. Vance Watrous & Maryanne Schultz, ‘Final Neolithic Period: Egalitarian and Heterogeneous Communities’ [17-20]

4. L. Vance Watrous & Maryanne Schultz, ‘Early Minoan I–II Periods: Emergence of a Stratified Society’ [21-31]

5. L. Vance Watrous & Maryanne Schultz, ‘Early Minoan III–Middle Minoan IA Periods: Disruption and Social Reorganization’ [33-40]

6. L. Vance Watrous & Maryanne Schultz, ‘Middle Minoan IB–II Periods: Growth of Regional Factions and Conflict’ [41-50]

7. L. Vance Watrous & Maryanne Schultz, Middle Minoan III–Late Minoan I Periods: The Rise of a Regional State’ [51-63]

8. L. Vance Watrous, ‘Late Minoan IIIA–IIIB Periods: Depopulation and Mycenaean Occupation’ [65-67]

9. Krzysztof Nowicki, ‘Late Minoan IIIC–Geometric Periods: Retreat into Refuge Settlements’ [69-76]

10. L. Vance Watrous, ‘Orientalizing–Classical Periods: Population Nucleation and Development of the Polis’ [77-79]

11. Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, ‘Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Expansion of the Isthmus in an International Era’ [81-93]

PART III. CONCLUSIONS

12. L. Vance Watrous, ‘Conclusions’ [97-102]

PART IV. APPENDICES

A. L. Vance Watrous, ‘Catalog of Sites’ [105-133]

B. Donald Haggis, ‘Neolithic and Bronze Age Pottery’ [135-154]

C. Donald Haggis, ‘Late Minoan IIIC–Orientalizing Pottery’ [155-161]

D. L. Vance Watrous, ‘Archaic–Hellenistic Pottery’ [163-166]

E. John Hayes & Angeliki Kossyva, ‘Roman Pottery’ [167-174]

References [175-188]
Index [189-191]