The Early Gournia Town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4534644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey S Soles (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-167 |
| Publication date | 1979-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9114 • E-ISSN: 1939-828X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/504898 |
| OpenAlex | W2319817205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article, written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Harriet Boyd Hawes's excavation at Gournia, presents the evidence for the town which occupied the Gournia ridge in the Middle Minoan I and II periods. Remains from this early town are sparse, but suggest that the town may have appeared much like that which replaced it in the New Palace period. It differed from the later town, however, in one notable respect: in the location of a small, but important cemetery on the northern end of the Gournia ridge, adjacent to the town itself. This cemetery, unlike anything in the later town, consisted of a number of small house-like tombs with an open-air shrine set in their midst. The shrine, of a type found in other parts of Crete during the Middle Bronze Age, may have provided for community worship before the Palace and its shrines were constructed
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Bronze Age · Cartography · Excavation · Geography · Middle Ages · Period (music · Ridge · Small town · Sociology · Theology · Worship · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2017 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |