Donald C. Haggis

Sandy Pylos : an archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino

Pylos is a natural harbor located on the southwestern coast of the Peloponnesian Peninsula of Greece. Homers Odyssey describes Sandy Pylos as the seat of King Nestor, who welcomed Telemachos as he searched for his father, Odysseus, ten years after the Trojan War. Millennia later, modern Greece won its independence from Turkey there in the 1827 naval battle of Navarino. This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the Stone Age to the present. Designed for general readers and travelers interested in ancient Greece, as well as scholars, it presents the findings of a consortium of archaeologists, natural scientists, historians, and art historians who joined forces to study the history of not just one archaeological site, but of an entire landscape, and not just in a single period, but at all times in the past. This approach, based on understanding a whole regional system over an extended time from many disciplinary perspectives, represents the state-of-the-art in archaeological research. It clearly demonstrates how historical and archaeological evidence can be synthesized to offer richer insights into the past.

The Kavousi Coarse Wares: A Bronze Age Chronology for Survey in the Mirabello Area, East Crete

This paper presents the results of the Kavousi-Thriphti Survey coarse-ware study. It is argued that coarse utilitarian pottery can be used for dating sites in archaeological survey, and further, that coarse pottery on the surface of any site with a domestic or storage function may represent a wider, and thus more accurate, chronological range than the associated fine wares. Detailed descriptions of 18 coarse fabric types identified in the survey region are presented. Thirteen of these fabrics were determined to be chronologically diagnostic. These fabric types, with their proposed chronological ranges and proveniences, provide sufficient data to begin analyzing the distribution of coarse ceramics in the protopalatial and neopalatial periods. The results lay the groundwork for more detailed petrographic analyses and provenience studies of coarse wares in the Bay of Mirabello.*

Excavations at Kalo Khorio, East Crete

This report presents the results of an excavation in the area of Kalo Khorio-Istron in eastern Crete, which recovered a portion of a Protopalatial (Middle Minoan I-II) cemetery and a well-preserved Early Minoan I house. Although Prepalatial and Protopalatial house tomb architecture from the eastern end of the island is well documented, all too frequently the internal configuration of burials - particularly- larnax and pithos interments - is ill defined or poorly preserved. The possible internal arrangement of a group of larnax burials is illustrated here, and questions of chronology, function, and secondary burial practices are considered. Well-stratified Early Minoan I domestic or habitation remains have previously been fully published from only two sites on the island, Debla and Knossos, while none had been reported from East Crete. The presentation here of the EM I architecture, stratigraphy, and pottery from Kalo Khorio contributes to the definition of EM I ceramic phases and relative chronology, as well as to an understanding of the formal relationship between EM I and EM II A material culture in eastern Crete.

Khalasmeno and Katalimata: two early iron age settlements in Monastiraki, East Crete

Survey was conducted at Khalasmeno and Katalimata to document two new Late Minoan (LM) IIIC settlements that have substantial artifacts and architectural remains suitable for assessing and comparring site size, chronology, and function

Classical archaeology in context : theory and practice in excavation in the Greek world

The archaeology of Greece remains ensconced in traditional discourses of classics and art history. In recent decades, fieldwork has led to new research directions, allowing us to reevaluate classical archaeology as a distinct field generating its own research questions. This book compiles case studies of current fieldwork in the Greek world (ca. 800-100 B.C.), considering new data and approaches in shaping a discourse in Greek archaeology.