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Monastiraki Katalimata: Excavation of a Cretan Refuge Site, 1993-2000
Krzysztof Nowicki
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Description for Monastiraki Katalimata: Excavation of a Cretan Refuge Site, 1993-2000
Hardback. Num Pages: 275 pages, 1 table, 91 b/w figs, 32 b/w pls. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 289 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1450.
At 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 ... Read more
At 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
INSTAP Academic Press United States
Number of pages
275
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9781931534246
SKU
V9781931534246
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About Krzysztof Nowicki
Krzysztof Nowicki is Head of the Department of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.
Reviews for Monastiraki Katalimata: Excavation of a Cretan Refuge Site, 1993-2000
This 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 ... Read more