Stable places and changing perceptions
Subtitle: cave archaeology in Greece
By: edited by Fanis Mavridis, Jesper Tae Jensen
Series: BAR international series -- 2558; BAR international series -- 2558.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781407311791
Subjects: Caves; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Opening remarks; title: Preface / Fanis Mavridis and Jesper Tae Jensen; title: Introduction: Stable spaces - changing perception: cave archaeology in Greece / Fanis Mavridis, Jesper Tae Jensen and Lina Kormazopoulou; title: part 1. Science: Chronology, palaeontology, geology, environment. Radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites in caves and rockshelters in Greece / Yorgos Facorellis; title: Cave sediment studies in Greece: a contextual approach to the archaeological record / Panagiotis Karkanas; title: Caves and fossils: palaeontology in Greek caves and fissures / Alexandra A.E. van der geer and Michalis D. Dermitzakis; title: Sea-level changes from the middle Palaeolithic to the early Neolithic and their implications on the colonization of the Ionian Islands / Maria Gkioni, Maria Geraga, Yorgos Papatheodorou, and Yorgos Ferentinos; title: part 2. Caves in prehistory. The use of palaeolithic caves and rockshelters in Greece: a synopsis / Antigone Papadea; title: The early Holocene occupation of caves in the Balkans / Frank Falkenstein; title: Perspectives of symbolism and ritualism for the late Neolithic communities at Sarakenos Cave, Boeotia / Stella Katsarou and Adamantios Sampson; title: part 3. Cretan caves. The uses of caves in Minoan Crete: a diachronic analysis / Lefteris Platon; title: Caves in the ritual landscape of Minoan Crete / Elissa Faro; title: Defining Bronze Age ritual caves in Crete / Loeta Tyree; title: Cretan caves sanctuaries of the early Iron Age to the Roman period / Nikolaos Stampolidis and Antonis Kotsonas; title: part 4. Caves in historical times. Mapping Greek sacred caves: sources, features, cults / Katja Sporn; title: Emperors between Skylla and Polyphemos: the use and abuse of Roman grottoes / Mette Catherina Hermannsen; title: "Through the double gates of sleep" (Verg. Aen. 6.236.): cave-oracles in Graeco-Roman antiquity / Wiebke Friese; title: Non-ritual use of caves in the classical and late Roman periods: the case of Attika / Jere Wickens; title: part 5. Case studies in cave archaeology. Anonymous cave of Schisto at Keratsini, Attika: a preliminary report on a diachronic cave occupation from the Pleistocene/Holocene transition to the Byzantine times / Fanis Mavridis, Lina Kormazopoulou, Antigone Papadea, Orestis Apostolikas, Daishuke Yamaguchi, Zarko Tankosic, Georgia Kotzamani, Katerina Trantalidou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Yannis Maniatis, Katerina Papagianni, and Dimitris Lambropoulos; title: Das Gebirge als Lebensraum Zur kultischen Bedeutung und profanen Nutzung der Höhlen und Überhänge des Latmos in 6. und 5. Jahrtausend v. Chr. / Anneliese Peschlow-Bindokat; title: Schisto Cave at Keratsini (Attika): the pottery from classical through Roman times / Alexandra Zampiti; title: Prehistoric use and ancient ritual worship at the Cave of Hagia Triada on Helikon / Vivi Vasilopoulou; title: Epilogue. Digging up caves: a unique experience / Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika.