South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros
Edited by Emilia Oddo Edited by Konstantinos Chalikias
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(September 2022)
ISBN: 9781803271309
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Contributions investigate the settlement patterns, maritime connectivity, and material culture of the southeast of Crete in a diachronic fashion, in an attempt to define it as a region and trace its history. Papers focus primarily on the archaeology of the sites along the coastal strip spanning between the Myrtos Valley and Kato Zakr
South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name held in Pacheia Ammos (Crete) in July 2017. Its aim is to investigate the settlement patterns, maritime connectivity, and material culture of the southeast of Crete in a diachronic fashion, in an attempt to define it as a region and trace its history. The title South by Southeast, an ironic take on Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, North by Northwest, encapsulates the uncertainty of what exactly the Southeast means and our need to clarify its geographical limits and cultural span. The papers presented focus primarily on the archaeology of the sites along the coastal strip spanning between the Myrtos Valley and Kato Zakros, an area that has time and again produced evidence of interconnection. Indeed one of the most important aspects surfacing from the volume is the evidence for the diachronic existence of the Southeast as a distinct cultural entity. The elements that tied the sites together shifted at times, forcing us to evaluate the concept of region as a flexible one that reflects different ways of defining a community.
Preface and Acknowledgements – Emilia Oddo and Konstantinos Chalikias
Introduction – Metaxia Tsipopoulou
Chapter 1 – Southeast Crete Before the Bronze Age – Lily Bonga
Chapter 2 – Living on the Edge: Habitation on the Uplands of East Crete – Preliminary Results from
an Extensive Survey – Tina Kalantzopoulou
Chapter 3 – Simulating Prehistoric Settlement in the Ierapetra Region: Extrapolations from the
Northern Isthmus – Christine Spencer and Todd Whitelaw
Chapter 4 – From Coastscapes to Small Worlds: The Changing Face of Maritime Interaction in
Southeast Crete – Carl Knappett
Chapter 5 – The Kato Zakros Valley in the Kaleidoscope of History – Lefteris Platon
Chapter 6 – Choiromandres: Periods of Use and Character of the Occupation. An Overview – Leonidas Vokotopoulos
Chapter 7 – ‘Εδώ στο Νότο’: South Coast Fabrics and Patterns of Pottery Production in
South-Southeast Crete – Eleni Nodarou
Chapter 8 – Conceptualizing Southeastern Crete in the Archaic Through Hellenistic Periods – Brice Erickson
Chapter 9 – Γυναικεία κεφαλή από την Ιεράπυτνα (The Discovery of a Roman, Marble Female Head from Ancient Hierapytna) – Chrysa Sofianou
Chapter 10 – Southeast Crete Goes International: Hierapytna in the Late Hellenistic and Early
Roman Periods – Scott Gallimore
Chapter 11 – The Role of the Sea for the Southeastern Coast of Crete as Seen through the
Archaeological Evidence, From the Early Minoan to the Roman Period – Tatiana Fragkopoulou
Conclusion – Navigating a World of Mountains, Coasts and Islands. Diachronic Evidence for a
Connected Southeast Crete – Emilia Oddo and Konstantinos Chalikias
Conference Program
Emilia Oddo is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA). Her interests are centred on the archaeology of Crete in the Bronze Age, especially the Late Bronze Age (Neopalatial period, ca. 1700–1470 BCE). She is a specialist in ceramics analysis. Much of her research to date has focused on the ways in which pottery style is manipulated to convey the identities of different geographical areas of Crete as well as different socio-political groups.
Konstantinos Chalikias received his PhD from Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany. His research interests include the study of diachronic settlement patterns on Crete, the exploitation of Cretan island and mountain landscapes during the Bronze Age, and the use of technologies such as time-lapse photography and remote sensing in understanding long-term changes in the transformation of cultural landscapes.
- Edited by Emilia Oddo
- Edited by Konstantinos Chalikias
'In sum, this is a stimulating book, a delight to read, and well-illustrated, and leaves us with a series of puzzles and important questions for the future.' – Luca Girella (2023): Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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'Alongside their 2019 volume, the editors and authors have made a valuable contribution to the study of a neglected area of Crete.' – Dominic Pollard (2023): Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (Issue 11.4).
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