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Sandy Pylos : an archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino
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Sandy Pylos : an archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino

Author: Jack L Davis; Susan E Alcock; et al
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st ed
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jack L Davis; Susan E Alcock; et al
ISBN: 0292715943 9780292715943 0292715951 9780292715950
OCLC Number: 37663433
Description: xliii, 342 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Glimpses of Messenia past / Jack L. Davis -- The environmental setting / Eberhard Zangger -- The physical scientist's role in regional archaeology / Eberhard Zangger -- From pollen to plants / Sergei Yazvenko -- The history of archaeological investigation in Messenia / Nigel Spencer -- The discovery of the palace of Nestor / Jack L. Davis. Marinatos in Pylos / Yannos G. Lolos -- The palace and its dependencies / Jack L. Davis -- The port of Nestor / Eberhard Zangger -- Mycenaean burial at Pylos / Yannos G. Lolos -- The palace and its operations / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine -- The Ano Englianos hilltop after the palace / Charles G. Griebel and Michael C. Nelson -- The perfumed-oil industry / Cynthia W/ Shelmerdine. The Linear B archives and the kingdom of Nestor III / John Bennet -- The Prap Survey's contribution / John Bennet -- Umme and Nichoria / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine -- After the palace : the early "history" of Messenia / Ann B. Harrison -- Nichoria : an Early Iron Age village in Messenia / Nigel Spencer -- The battle of Sphacteria, 425 B.C. / Nigel Spencer. Liberation and conquest : Hellenistic and Roman Messenia / Susan E. Alcock -- Dialiskari : a Late Roman villa on the Messenian coast / David Stone and Axel Kampke -- Power from the dead : tomb cult in postliberation Messenia / Susan E. Alcock -- Bouka / Ann B. Harrison -- Medieval Messenia / Sharon E.J. Gerstel. The estates of Niccolò Acciaiuoli / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Venetian Methoni, Modon / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Byzantine sgraffito ware / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- The Second Ottoman Period and the Greek Revolution / Jack L. Davis -- Hasanaga : a glimpse into the Ottoman countryside / Susan E. Alcock -- The battle of Navarino / Charles Watkinson. From Pausanias to the present / Jack L. Davis -- Messenia's multiple pasts / Jack L. Davis -- Computers and maps at Prap / Sebastian Heath -- A fieldwalker's perspective on Prap / Maria Antoniou and Kalliope Kaloyerakou.
Responsibility: edited by Jack L. Davis ; with contributions by Susan E. Alcock ... [et al.].
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