Research Catalog

Title

Stable places and changing perceptions : cave archaeology in Greece / edited by Fanis Mavridis, Jesper Tae Jensen.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mavridis, Fanis
• Jensen, Jesper Tae

Description

xxi, 333 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (black and white); 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 2558

Uniform Title

BAR international series ; 2558.

Subject

• Caves > Greece
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece
• Antiquities
• Caves
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Greece > Antiquities
• Greece

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Terms of Use (note)

• Current Copyright Fee: GBP12.00

Contents

Opening remarks -- Preface / Fanis Mavridis and Jesper Tae Jensen -- Introduction: Stable spaces - changing perception: cave archaeology in Greece / Fanis Mavridis, Jesper Tae Jensen and Lina Kormazopoulou -- part 1. Science: Chronology, palaeontology, geology, environment. Radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites in caves and rockshelters in Greece / Yorgos Facorellis -- Cave sediment studies in Greece: a contextual approach to the archaeological record / Panagiotis Karkanas -- Caves and fossils: palaeontology in Greek caves and fissures / Alexandra A.E. van der geer and Michalis D. Dermitzakis -- Sea-level changes from the middle Palaeolithic to the early Neolithic and their implications on the colonization of the Ionian Islands / Maria Gkioni, Maria Geraga, Yorgos Papatheodorou, and Yorgos Ferentinos -- part 2. Caves in prehistory. The use of palaeolithic caves and rockshelters in Greece: a synopsis / Antigone Papadea -- The early Holocene occupation of caves in the Balkans / Frank Falkenstein -- Perspectives of symbolism and ritualism for the late Neolithic communities at Sarakenos Cave, Boeotia / Stella Katsarou and Adamantios Sampson -- part 3. Cretan caves. The uses of caves in Minoan Crete: a diachronic analysis / Lefteris Platon -- Caves in the ritual landscape of Minoan Crete / Elissa Faro -- Defining Bronze Age ritual caves in Crete / Loeta Tyree -- Cretan caves sanctuaries of the early Iron Age to the Roman period / Nikolaos Stampolidis and Antonis Kotsonas -- part 4. Caves in historical times. Mapping Greek sacred caves: sources, features, cults / Katja Sporn -- Emperors between Skylla and Polyphemos: the use and abuse of Roman grottoes / Mette Catherina Hermannsen -- "Through the double gates of sleep" (Verg. Aen. 6.236.): cave-oracles in Graeco-Roman antiquity / Wiebke Friese -- Non-ritual use of caves in the classical and late Roman periods: the case of Attika / Jere Wickens -- part 5. Case studies in cave archaeology. Anonymous cave of Schisto at Keratsini, Attika: a preliminary report on a diachronic cave occupation from the Pleistocene/Holocene transition to the Byzantine times / Fanis Mavridis, Lina Kormazopoulou, Antigone Papadea, Orestis Apostolikas, Daishuke Yamaguchi, Zarko Tankosic, Georgia Kotzamani, Katerina Trantalidou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Yannis Maniatis, Katerina Papagianni, and Dimitris Lambropoulos -- Das Gebirge als Lebensraum Zur kultischen Bedeutung und profanen Nutzung der Höhlen und Überhänge des Latmos in 6. und 5. Jahrtausend v. Chr. / Anneliese Peschlow-Bindokat -- Schisto Cave at Keratsini (Attika): the pottery from classical through Roman times / Alexandra Zampiti -- Prehistoric use and ancient ritual worship at the Cave of Hagia Triada on Helikon / Vivi Vasilopoulou -- Epilogue. Digging up caves: a unique experience / Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika.

ISBN

• 9781407311791
• 1407311794

LCCN

2013481492

OCLC

• ocn864785232
• 864785232
• SCSB-1764599

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library