| Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies Contributor(s): Tsipopoulou, Metaxia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 8771240535 ISBN-13: 9788771240535 Publisher: Aarhus University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 939.18 |
| Series: Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens |
| Physical Information: 364 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Papers given on a seminar celebrating the 25-year anniversary of the Petras excavations. Petras in western Crete was the site of a Minoan settlement. Despite the evidence for habitation in the last phase of the Neolithic period (3500 B.C.), the first settlement is dated to the Early Minoan II period (2600-2300 B.C.). It continued to be inhabited until 1450 B.C., when it was destroyed, along with the other Minoan centres. A short reoccupation occurred during the Late Minoan III period (1400-1300 B.C.). The settlement flourished in the Old Palace period (2000-1650 B.C.), when the central building of palatial character was built on the top of the hill; it reached a peak, however, in the New Palace period (2000-1450 B.C.) when many alterations of the buildings took place. In the 12th-13th centuries A.D. the top of the hill was occupied by a cemetery, of which 32 graves have been excavated. |
