STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete
edited by Kevin T. Glowacki and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
Hesperia Supplement 44
520 pp, 252 col and b/w figs, 19 tables
8.5" x 11"
Paper, ISBN: 978-0-87661-544-7
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Status: Active
Retail Price $75
This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005. The 38 papers presented here range from a discussion of household activities at Final Neolithic Phaistos to the domestic correlates of “globalization” during the early Roman Empire. These studies demonstrate a variety of methodological approaches currently employed for understanding houses and household activities. Key themes include understanding the built environment in all of its manifestations, the variability of domestic organization, the role of houses and households in mediating social (and perhaps even ethnic) identity within a community or region, household composition, and of course, household activities of all types, ranging from basic subsistence needs to production and consumption at a suprahousehold level.
About the Author: Kevin T. Glowacki is Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History at Texas A&M University. Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan is the Doreen C. Spitzer Director of Archives at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.