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This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on
the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in
Ierapetra in May 2005. The 38 papers presented here range from a
discussion of household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to
the domestic correlates of "globalization" during the early Roman
Empire. These studies demonstrate a variety of methodological
approaches currently employed for understanding houses and
household activities. Key themes include understanding the built
environment in all of its manifestations, the variability of
domestic organization, the role of houses and households in
mediating social (and perhaps even ethnic) identity within a
community or region, household composition, and of course,
household activities of all types, ranging from basic subsistence
needs to production and consumption at a supra-household level.
A regional survey was undertaken in the central part of the
Mirabello Bay area: along the northeastern coast of Crete in the
Gournia Valley and the northern half of the Isthmus of Ierapetra,
ending in the valley of Episkopi, to provide a regional context for
the Bronze Age palace and settlement of Gournia. As this survey was
the last and geographically most central compared to three other
surveys (Vrokastro [Hayden 2004a], Pseira [Betancourt, Davaras, and
Hope Simpson 2005], and Kavousi [Haggis 2005]) conducted in the
Mirabello region, it ties together the data from all four surveys
regarding the environment, population(s), and social organization
of an entire region. Furthermore, this volume goes beyond the
survey data to consider, at some length, the evidence from local
excavations, so as to provide an in-depth and integrated picture of
the regional socio-economic development. It is meant as a regional
archaeological study of the Mirabello Bay area.
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