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The plain of Phaistos : cycles of social complexity in the Mesara region of Crete / L. Vance Watrous, Despoina Hadzi-Vallianou, Harriet Blitzer ; with contributions by John Bennet ... [et al.].
- Title
- The plain of Phaistos : cycles of social complexity in the Mesara region of Crete / L. Vance Watrous, Despoina Hadzi-Vallianou, Harriet Blitzer ; with contributions by John Bennet ... [et al.].
- Author
- Watrous, Livingston Vance, 1943-
- Publication
- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.
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- Description
- xxvi, 668 p., [70] p. of plates : ill., maps; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete presents the results of an interdisciplinary regional field project (1984-1987) carried out in the vast Mesara Plain on the island of Crete. This volume traces the changing patterns of settlement and cycles of social complexity from the Late Neolithic period to the present day within the heartland of the state of Phaistos in southern Crete. The archaeological, geological, botanical, environmental, ethnographic, and historical studies of this project establish the regional identity of the Western Mesara and define changing man-land relationships through time. Using a combination of empirical, processual, and post-processual theoretical approaches, this volume investigates a central problem: how and why did the Bronze Age and Classical states arise at Phaistos?"--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Monumenta archaeologica ; 23
- Uniform Title
- Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) v. 23.
- Subject
- Sozialgeschichte
- Sozialgeschichte
- Social archaeology > Greece > Mesara Plain
- Social archaeology > Greece > Phaistos (Extinct city)
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Mesara Plain
- Minoans > Greece > Mesara Plain
- Mesara Plain (Greece) > History
- Mesara Plain (Greece) > Antiquities
- Phaistos (Extinct city) > Antiquities
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 595-668) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I: The western Mesara project -- II: The natural environment and its use -- III: Prehistoric settlement and society -- IV: Historical settlement and society -- V: Final perspectives.
- ISBN
- 1931745145 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004028968
- OCLC
- 57211140
- SCSB-10081334
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library