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 Hitchcocks 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.
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'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 '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).
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 : 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 (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. 17001470 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.
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