Description
Book SynopsisAt first sight, the cliffside site of Katalimata looks like an extreme refuge place where one might expect small groups of people hiding for a brief time during the most serious period of threat. Excavation of the largest of the terraces, however, has shown that use of the place was often long-lasting and more complex. The most interesting result of the project was the identification at Katalimata of almost all the same phases known from elsewhere in Crete as periods of disturbances, relocations, and destructions. This monograph provides a detailed discussion of the six occupational phases recorded on the largest of Monastiraki Katalimata's terraces and offers a reconstruction of the site's role in the context of Cretan history.
Trade ReviewThis book is valuable for those interested in landscape studies and ceramics for almost all cultural periods in Crete. Nowicki has walked, slept, eaten, found water, and lived within this environment, forming close friendships with the shepherds who know it best. Consequently, he has documented not just the sites themselves but also the territory between. No one individual working on the island knows more about how these sites evolved or related to one another within complex environments. Few, if any, have been as enterprising or as brave, and the partial results of this lifetimes achievement can be found in this concise and well-organized volume.' -- AJA Online Book Reviews AJA Online Book Reviews
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Topography of the Site; The Excavation of Terrace C, including a Catalog of Contexts; The History of Terrace C; Monastiraki Katalimata and Cretan History; Catalog of Illustrated Pottery; Catalog of Pottery Groups; Catalog of Small Finds.
