Livari Skiadi. A Minoan Cemetery in Southeast Crete. I. Excavation and Finds

Yiannis Papadatos & Chrysa Sofianou

City: Philadelphia

Year: 2015

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Series: Prehistory Monographs 50

Description: Hardback, 322 p., 63 b/w tables, 43 b/w plates, 28.7x22.1

Abstract

This is the first of a two-volume final report on the excavation of the Minoan cemetery and associated finds at Livari Skiadi, near Goudouras, at the southeastern end of Crete. The cemetery was unearthed during a rescue excavation performed by the 24th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and with the participation of the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The excavation lasted from 2008 until 2010 and revealed a tholos tomb and burial rock shelter used in the Prepalatial period, a house tomb dated to the Neopalatial period, and deposits of funerary material in open areas surrounding these tombs. The study and analysis of the material followed immediately, allowing the full publication of the remains and the associated finds to be completed within five years of the completion of the excavation, while a second volume on the organic materials (e.g., human remains, ecofacts) and the final conclusions is in preparation.

Contents

List of Table [ix]
List of Figures [xiii]
List of Plates [xvii]
Introduction and Acknowledgments [xxi]
List of Abbreviations [xxiii]

PART I. SITE, EXCAVATION, AND ARCHITECTURE

Chapter 1. The Site (Chrysa Sofianou) [3]
Chapter 2. Excavation and Stratigraphy, (Chrysa Sofianou and Yiannis Papadatos) [7]
Chapter 3. Architecture (Yiannis Papadatos) [21]

PART II. POTTERY

Chapter 4. Prepalatial Pottery: Typological Analysis (Yiannis Papadatos) [27]
Chapter 5. Prepalatial Pottery: Petrographic Analysis (Eleni Nodarou) [61]
Chapter 6. Prepalatial Pottery: Discussion and Interpretation (Yiannis Papadatos) [77]
Chapter 7. Neopalatial Pottery (Yiannis Papadatos) [85]
Chapter 8. Late Hellenistic/Early Roman Pottery (Chrysa Sofianou) [89]

PART III. SMALL FINDS

Chapter 9. Metalwork (Yiannis Papadatos) [93]
Chapter 10. Stone Vases (Yiannis Papadatos) [99]
Chapter 11. Jewelry (Yiannis Papadatos) [101]
Chapter 12. Seals (Yiannis Papadatos) [107]
Chapter 13. Miscellaneous Finds (Yiannis Papadatos) [111]
Chapter 14. Chipped Stone (Tristan Carter) [113]

PART IV. APPENDICES AND CONCORDANCES

Appendix A. Analysis of Prepalatial Pottery with Scanning Electron Microscopy (Eleni Nodarou & Michel Roggenbucke) [129]
Appendix B. Analysis of Metallic and Faience Artifacts with Portable X-Ray Flourescence Spectroscopy (Katharine Hall) [133]
Concordance A. Siteia Museum, Excavation, and Catalog Numbers [139]
Concordance B. Pottery Groups and Contexts [141]
References [145]
Index [153]
Tables
Figures
Plates