Distribution of EM I-III domestic and burial sites in north-central and east Crete / Calliope E. Galanaki and Joanna Triantafylidi -- Early Minoan IB cemetery / Calliope E. Galanaki -- Catalog of EM IB tombs and their finds / Calliope E. Galanaki, Danae Z. Kontopodi, and Joanna Triantafylidi -- Catalog of EM IB pottery sherds / Joanna Triantafylidi and Giorgos Pantermarakis -- Burial architecture and funerary practices at the EM IB cemetery / Kostas Sbonias -- Human skeletal remains in the EM IB Cemetery : the question of the missing bones / Argyro Nafplioti -- Early Minoan IB pottery / Yiannis Papadatos -- Petrographic analysis of the EM IB pottery / Eleni Nodarou -- Analysis of the EM IB pottery with scanning electron microscopy / Ioannis Iliopoulos -- Metal objects from the EM IB cemetery : jewelry and implements / Calliope E. Galanaki -- Technological observations based on the analyses of metal and steatite finds from the EM IB cemetery / Yannis Bassiakos, Chrysa Apostolaki, Vassilis Perdikatsis, and Sophia Sotiropoulou -- Small finds of stone from the EM IB Cemetery : obsidian, chert, and stone jewelry / Doniert Evely -- Material of marine origin from the EM IB cemetery / Anastasios Eleftheriou, Joanna Triantafylidi, Lilian Karali, and Calliope E. Galanaki -- Discussion I : the EM IB cemetery as part of the Aegean World / Yiannis Papadatos and Calliope E. Galanaki -- Distribution of Protopalatial-Neopalatial domestic and burial sites in north-central Crete / Calliope E. Galanaki, Joanna Triantafylidi, and Christina Papadaki -- Minoan building / Calliope E. Galanaki -- Architecture of the Minoan building / Calliope E. Galanaki and Christina Papadaki -- Introduction to the pottery from the Minoan building / Christina Papadaki and Calliope E. Galanaki, with statistics by Charalambos Stratigis -- Pottery from the Minoan building / Christina Papadaki, Eleni Nodarou, and Calliope E. Galanaki -- Petrographic analysis of pottery from the Minoan building / Eleni Nodarou -- Discussion II : stratigraphy, dating, and use of the Minoan building / Calliope E. Galanaki, Evangelos Kyriakidis, and Christina Papadaki -- The region of Gournes during the historic period : a hidden rural landscape? / Alexandros Kastanakis -- Geological observations on the Gournes area / Charalambos Fassoulas -- Discussion III : the Gournes region through time / Alexandros Kastanakis and Charalambos Fassoulas -- Epilogue: Gournes and Its landscape / Calliope E. Galanaki.
Summary:
"The results of the excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery-including 37 tombs and an associated rectangular Minoan building-at Gournes in north-central Crete revealed strong relations with the Cyclades during the time of the Kampos Cultural Group, as exemplified by the distinctive style of pottery and other types of burial objects such as obsidian pieces and metal items. The discussion of burial practices at Gournes involves both the significance of several features of the funerary architecture and the consideration of the character and deposition of offerings in the tombs. The burial architecture and artifacts are profusely illustrated and tables of data are presented. The cemetery is compared with other Early Bronze Age sites within and outside Crete to investigate links among Prepalatial funerary practices and also to look into settlement sites that display similar characteristics that may reveal possible intercultural relations in the Aegean. Their interconnections confirm the existence, since the Early Minoan I period, of a dense social network including the Cycladic islands and contacts with distant areas of Crete. The Minoan building was used from Early Minoan III to Late Minoan IA, and its ritual character in association with the funerary context suggests that it was originally constructed as a house tomb and was reused later as a support building for rituals after the abandonment of the Early Minoan IB cemetery"-- Provided by publisher.
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