South By Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros

by: Oddo, E. Chalikias, K.

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 Zakros.

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.

Contents
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

South By Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros

by: Oddo, E. Chalikias, K.

• ISBN-13: 9781803271309 / 978-1-80327-130-9
• ISBN-03: 1803271302 / 1-80327-130-2
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 2022