Crete
Beyond the Palaces: Proceedings of the
Crete 2000 Conference
edited by Leslie Preston
Day, Margaret S. Mook,
and James D. Muhly
This volume presents the papers from
the conference "Crete 2000: A Centennial Celebration of American
Archaeological Work on Crete (1900–2000)," held in Athens
from July 10–12, 2000. The American School of Classical Studies
at Athens and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP)
Study Center for East Crete organized the conference. Scholars
participating in the American and joint Greek-American excavations
on Crete or studying material from these excavations were
invited to present papers at the conference. The volume is
divided into the following sections: Trade, Society and Religion,
Chronology and History, Landscape and Survey, and Technology
and Production.
Contents: Introduction: History of American
Excavations on Crete (Geraldine C. Gesell). PART I: TRADE. 1. Pseira and Knossos:
The Transformation of an East Cretan Seaport (Philip P. Betancourt);
2. The Incised and Relief Lily Jars from Mochlos (Thomas M. Brogan);
3. Kommos: The Sea-Gate to Southern Crete (Joseph W. Shaw); 4. A Possible Minoan Harbor on South Crete
(Elpida Hadjidaki). PART II: SOCIETY AND RELIGION. 5. The Big House at Vronda and the Great House at
Karphi: Evidence for Social Structure in LM IIIC Crete (Leslie Preston Day and Lynn M. Snyder); 6.
Gournia, Vronda Kavousi, Kephala Vasilikis: A Triad of Interrelated Shrines of the Expiring Minoan Age
on the Isthmus of Ierapetra (Theodore Eliopoulos); 7. The Architecture of the Late Minoan IIIC Shrine
(Building G) at Vronda, Kavousi (Nancy L. Klein); 8. Halasmenos, Destroyed but not Invisible: New Insights
on the LM IIIC Period in the Isthmus of Ierapetra. First Presentation of the Pottery from the 1992–1997
Campaigns (Metaxia Tsipopoulou); 9. Household Analysis in Dark Age Crete (Kevin T. Glowacki); 10. Religion at
Minoan Kommos (Maria C. Shaw). PART III: CHRONOLOGY AND HISTORY. 11. New Construction at Mochlos in the LM IB
Period (Jeffrey S. Soles); 12. From Foundation to Abandonment: New Ceramic Phasing for the Late Bronze Age and
Early Iron Age on the Kastro at Kavousi (Margaret S. Mook); 13. Writing on the Walls: The Architectural Context
of Archaic Cretan Laws (Paula J. Perlman); 14. Eleutherna and the Greek World, ca. 600–400 B.C. (Brice Erickson); 15.
The Late Hellenistic Period in East Crete (Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan). PART IV: LANDSCAPE AND SURVEY. 16. Past and Present
Perspectives on the Archaeological Landscapes of Mirabello (Donald C. Haggis); 17. Vrokastro and the Settlement Pattern
of the LM IIIA–Geometric Periods (Barbara J. Hayden); 18. Western Crete in the Bronze Age: A Survey of the Evidence (Jennifer Moody);
19. South of Kavousi, East of Mochlos: The West Siteia Mountains at the End of the Bronze Age (Krzysztof Nowicki).
PART V: TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION. 20. Chrysokamino and the Beginnings of Metal Technology on Crete and in the Aegean (James D. Muhly),
21. Mochlos and Melos: A Special Relationship? Creating Identity and Status in Minoan Crete (Tristan Carter); 22. Late Minoan III Mochlos
and the Regional Consumption of Pottery (R. Angus K. Smith).
340p, 204 b/w figs, 4 tbs
(Prehistory Monographs 10, INSTAP Academic Press, 2004)
ISBN-10: 1-931534-09-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-931534-09-3
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