Volume 32 / Number 3
1990
Special Edition: The Cultural Heritage of Crete
On The Cover: Myers balloon aerial photograph of the peninsula on the southeast coastof Pseira, showing the Minoan settlement.
Vol. 32 / No. 3
By: J. Wilson Myers and Eleanor Emlen Myers
Low-Altitude Aerial Photography in Crete
As early as 1930, at the fortress tell of Megiddo, the biblical Armageddon, vertical balloon photographs were used to help […]
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Vol. 32 / No. 3
By: Harriet Blitzer
Pastoral Life in the Mountains of Crete: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective
Archaeological research in Crete has always maintained a tenuous and sometimes contrary bond with evidence of traditional human activity in […]
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By: Barbara J. Hayden and Jennifer A. Moody
The Vrokastro Survey Project: Providing a Context for an Early Iron Age Site
Of the most dramatic coastlines in Europe is located along the northern shores of eastern Crete, where sea-weathered rock formations, […]
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By: Barbara J. Hayden, Jennifer A. Moody and Polymnia Muhly
Introduction – Winter 1990
Generations of historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and scientists have chosen Crete as the focus of their research. A combination of factors […]
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By: Joseph W. Shaw
North American Archaeological Work in Crete, 1880 to 1990
The First Phase of Research The island of Crete with its rich Minoan and Classical civilization has been the field […]
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Vol. 32 / No. 3
By: Philip P. Betancourt
The Stone Vessels of Pseira
“Never…have I seen so many stone vases in so short a time.” Richard Seager, letter to Edith Hall from Pseira, […]
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By: Polymnia Muhly
The Great Goddess and the Priest-King: Minoan Religion in Flux
The discussion of practically every aspect of Minoan civilization begins with the work of Sir Arthur Evans, who, almost half […]
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By: Geraldine C. Gesell, Leslie Preston Day and William D.E. Coulson
Tombs and Burial Practices in Early Iron Age Crete
Tombs and graves have always been of particular interest to archaeologists for the information they provide about the people buried […]
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