List of Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
Works Cited
Greeting from Rune Frederiksen Director Emeritus of the Danish Institute at Athens
Greetings from Kristina Winther-Jacobsen Director of the Danish Institute at Athens
Documenting sociopolitical changes in Pre- and Proto-palatial Petras: The house tomb cemetery Metaxia Tsipopoulou
The Tripartite Facade at the Petras cemetery Philip P. Betancourt, Metaxia Tsipopoulou and Miriam Clinton
Ceremonial Area 1: Identity and dating of a special ritual space in the Petras cemetery Metaxia Tsipopoulou
Pottery fabrics and recipes in the later Pre- and Proto-palatial period at Petras: The petrographic evidence from House Tomb 2 and Ceremonial Area 1 Eleni Nodarou
Further seals from the cemetery at Petras Olga Krzyszkowska
Variability and differentiation: A first look at the stone vase assemblage in the Petras cemetery Maria Relaki & Christina Tsoraki
The Petras 'Sphinx'? An essay on hybridity Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw
The use of querns and other ground stone hand tools in Early to Middle Minoan mortuary practices at Petras Heidi M. C. Dierckx
Special silver alloys from the Pre- and Proto-palatial cemetery of Petras, Crete Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, Philip P. Betancourt, Susan C. Ferrence, & James D. Muhly
An intriguing set of discs from the Protopalatial tombs at Petras Thomas M. Brogan & Alessandra Giumlia-Mair
The plant remains of the house tombs at Petras: Acts of destruction, transformation and preservation Evi Margaritis
Feeding the dead, toasting the living? The view from faunal remains Valasia Isaakidou
Male bonding and remembering the ancestors? The Late Minoan III reoccupation and use of the Kephala-Petras Cemetery Area David W. Rupp
The sea in the afterlife of the Minoans: The shell material from Petras cemetery in context Tatiana Theodoropoulou '
Oso psela kai an anebeis lexe men peis megale 'po choma se ephtiaxe o theos ki ekeia gyrizeis pali'. Cretan mantinada for death Sevasti Triantaphyllou
House Tomb 5: A preliminary analysis of the human skeletal remains Sevasti Triantaphyllou, Sotiria Kiorpe & Metaxia Tsipopoulou
Compare and contrast: The house tomb at Myrtos-Pyrgos Gerald Cadogan
Mortuary practices, the ideology of death and social organization of the Siteia area: The Petras cemetery within its broader funerary landscape Yiannis Papadatos
Mobility patterns and cultural identities in Pre- and Proto-palatial central and eastern Crete Efthymia Nikita, Sevi Triantaphyllou, Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Lefteris Platon
Pezoules Kephala, Zakros. I. Form of the tombs and burial habits Lefteris Platon Pezoules
Kephala, Zakros. II. The chronological and evaluative position of the finds in the framework of the life of the neighboring settlement Lefteris Platon & Maria Tsiboukaki
Funerary practices at Sissi: The treatment of the body in the house tombs Ilse Schoep, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Aurore Schmitt & Peter Tomkins
Funerary ritual and social structure in the Old Palace period: A multifarious liaison Giorgos Vavouranakis
East Cretan networks in the Middle Bronze Age Carl Knappett & Cristina Ichim
Final discussion Chaired by Colin F. Macdonald
Final remarks: Some comments on the Pre- and Proto-palatial cemetery and the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Petras Kephala Donald C. Haggis
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