Petras, Siteia: The Pre- and proto-palatial cemetery in context. Acts of a two-day conference held at the Danish institute at Athens, 14-15 February 2015

by: Tsipopoulou, M.

The second conference report on the archaeological site of Petras, Siteia concerns the progress of research conducted about the very important and extensive cemetery of the Pre- and Proto-palatial periods in eastern Crete - one of very few excavations started in Crete in the 21st century. An international group of specialists present and discuss various aspects of the remains of thelarge, unplundered cemetery and the adjacent settlements traces and in contextualizing the cemetery they try to understand it in the historical, economic and political framework of Pre- and Proto-palatial Crete in general, and Eastern Crete in particular.

Contents:
11 List of Contributors
15 Preface
19 Abbreviations
21 Works Cited
55 Greeting from Rune Frederiksen
Director Emeritus of the Danish Institute at Athens
56 Greetings from Kristina Winther-Jacobsen
Director of the Danish Institute at Athens
57 Documenting sociopolitical changes in Pre- and Proto-palatial Petras:
The house tomb cemetery
Metaxia Tsipopoulou
103 The Tripartite Facade at the Petras cemetery
Philip P. Betancourt, Metaxia Tsipopoulou and Miriam Clinton
111 Ceremonial Area 1: Identity and dating of a special ritual space
in the Petras cemetery
Metaxia Tsipopoulou
131 Pottery fabrics and recipes in the later Pre- and Proto-palatial period at Petras:
The petrographic evidence from House Tomb 2 and Ceremonial Area 1
Eleni Nodarou
143 Further seals from the cemetery at Petras
Olga Krzyszkowska
159 Variability and differentiation: A first look at the stone vase assemblage
in the Petras cemetery
Maria Relaki & Christina Tsoraki
179 The Petras ?Sphinx?? An essay on hybridity
Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw
195 The use of querns and other ground stone hand tools in Early to Middle Minoan
mortuary practices at Petras
Heidi M. C. Dierckx
203 Special silver alloys from the Pre- and Proto-palatial cemetery of Petras, Crete
Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, Philip P. Betancourt, Susan C. Ferrence, & James D. Muhly
215 An intriguing set of discs from the Protopalatial tombs at Petras
Thomas M. Brogan & Alessandra Giumlia-Mair
225 The plant remains of the house tombs at Petras: Acts of destruction,
transformation and preservation
Evi Margaritis
237 Feeding the dead, toasting the living? The view from faunal remains
Valasia Isaakidou
245 Male bonding and remembering the ancestors?
The Late Minoan III reoccupation and use of the Kephala-Petras Cemetery Area
David W. Rupp
269 The sea in the afterlife of the Minoans: The shell material from Petras cemetery
in context
Tatiana Theodoropoulou
271 ?Όσο ψηλά και αν ανεβείς λέξη μην πεις μεγάλη ?πο χώμα σε έφτιαξε ο θεός κι
εκειά γυρίζεις πάλι?. Cretan mantinada for death
Sevasti Triantaphyllou
291 House Tomb 5: A preliminary analysis of the human skeletal remains
Sevasti Triantaphyllou, Sotiria Kiorpe & Metaxia Tsipopoulou
301 Compare and contrast: The house tomb at Myrtos-Pyrgos
Gerald Cadogan
311 Mortuary practices, the ideology of death and social organization of the Siteia area:
The Petras cemetery within its broader funerary landscape
Yiannis Papadatos
325 Mobility patterns and cultural identities in Pre- and Proto-palatial central
and eastern Crete
Efthymia Nikita, Sevi Triantaphyllou, Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos,
Lefteris Platon
341 Pezoules Kephala, Zakros. I. Form of the tombs and burial habits
Lefteris Platon
355 Pezoules Kephala, Zakros. II. The chronological and evaluative position of the finds
in the framework of the life of the neighboring settlement
Lefteris Platon & Maria Tsiboukaki
369 Funerary practices at Sissi: The treatment of the body in the house tombs
Ilse Schoep, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Aurore Schmitt & Peter Tomkins
385 Funerary ritual and social structure in the Old Palace period:
A multifarious liaison
Giorgos Vavouranakis
399 East Cretan networks in the Middle Bronze Age
Carl Knappett & Cristina Ichim
413 Final discussion
Chaired by Colin F. Macdonald
425 Final remarks: Some comments on the Pre- and Proto-palatial cemetery
and the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Petras Kephala
Donald C. Haggis
437 Index

Petras, Siteia: The Pre- and proto-palatial cemetery in context. Acts of a two-day conference held at the Danish institute at Athens, 14-15 February 2015

by: Tsipopoulou, M.

• ISBN-13: 9788771841572 / 978-87-7184-157-2
• ISBN-03: 8771841571 / 87-7184-157-1
• Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, 2017