Excavations in the Archaic Civic Buildings at Azoria in 2005–2006

Haggis, Donald C.; Mook, Margaret S.; Fitzsimons, Rodney; Scarry, C. Margaret; Snyder, Lynn M.; West, William C.

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“…On the basis of this work, and of related evidence, olive-oil production using a technique that did not involve complete crushing of all olives during milling has been inferred in the aforementioned Hellenistic site of Tria Platania (Margaritis and Jones 2008b). Similarly, olive-oil production has been suggested for the Protogeometric/Early Greek site North of the Little Palace, Knossos (Livarda 2008), and at the Archaic city of Azoria in Crete (Haggis et al 2011), among other sites.…”

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Archaeobotany in Greece

Livarda¹

2014

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This paper provides a brief overview of the history and main achievements of archaeobotanical work in Greece to date, with the aim of highlighting its potential and creating a framework in which future work can be contextualized. The term “archaeobotany” is used here in its narrow sense, referring to the study of plant macroremains, such as seeds, fruits and other plant parts, and excluding charcoal studies or “anthracology” and analyses of microremains (for example pollen, phytoliths), which have developed to become separate subdisciplines.

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Archaeobotany in Greece

Livarda¹

2014

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“…The work at Azoria has identified a community created in the mid-seventh century BC and abandoned in the early fifth century BC. Azoria thus gives us a rare unencumbered window into this formative early period m polis formation on Crete (Haggis et al 2011).…”

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The Archaic Polis of Azoria

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2011

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This article seeks to build a structural model for the development of the Cretan polis through an analysis of the civic structure of Archaic Azoria. Azoria's civic structural network is compared to that of the early polis on mainland Greece. Insights gained from comparative modeling of elite-sponsored civic structure in these two regions are applied to Crete, allowing us to construct a more robust network of early 'polital' structure for that island. Results of this analysis indicate that Cretan elites constructed their positions within the Cretan polis through methods such as exclusion. They additionally show that the unique relationship between civic institutions and those of the Cretan inter-polital sanctuary highlights the role that the institutions within the andreion and within civic cult play in polis development, as well as elucidating the unique character of the family-community interface on Crete. Results of this analysis highlight important issues in the emergence of the Cretan polis, and suggest fruitful future research.

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“…olive press installation from Azoria in East Crete. This installation was discovered in the larger west room of a two-room structure (D300) from the Service Building, excavated in 2006 under the direction of D. Haggis and M. Mook [51]. D300 contained overwhelming archaeological evidence for the processing and pressing of olives: a press bench, press beam sockets, numerous weights, and a basin, found together with substantial quantities of olive pits-including seeds from press-cake.…”

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Ancient Organic Residues as Cultural and Environmental Proxies: The Value of Legacy Objects

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Birney

2019

Sustainability

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Often treated as an accessory science, organic residue analysis (ORA) has the capacity to illuminate otherwise hidden aspects of ancient technology, culture, and economy, and therein can play a central role in archaeological inquiry. Through ORA, both the intact vessel freshly excavated from a tomb and the sherd tucked away in a museum storage closet can offer insights into their contents, their histories, and the cultures that created them-provided the results can be carefully calibrated to account for their treatment during and after excavation. The case study below presents ORA data obtained from a range of artifacts from Late Bronze Age Crete, setting results from freshly-excavated and legacy objects alongside one another. Although legacy objects do tend to yield diminished results from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective, our comparative work has demonstrated both their value and untapped potential when their object biographies are carefully considered. It also sheds light on biomarker degradation processes, which have implications for methodologies of extraction and interpretation of legacy objects. Comparative studies such as these broaden the pool of viable ORA candidates, and therein amplify ORA's ability to reveal patterns of consumption as well as ecological and environmental change. They also highlight the role and value of data-sharing in collaborative environments such as the OpenARCHEM archaeometric database.Sustainability 2019, 11, 656 2 of 20 chemical, environmental, and anthropogenically-induced degradation that affect them; it also has significant implications for future methodologies of sample collection and interpretation.In the comparative case study below, we present, in parallel, ORA results taken from artifacts excavated at Mochlos and Tourloti, both Late Bronze Age (LBA) sites in East Crete (Figure 1). We offer some preliminary comments on their ramifications for the variable expression of compounds, the significance of vessel topography, and the overarching value of legacy data in ORA studies as a whole. This is the second in a series of short studies undertaken with the ARCHEM library of samples integrated into the OpenARCHEM archaeometric database, a new open-access repository, resource, and publication outlet for archaeometric data [2].Sustainability 2019, 11 FOR PEER REVIEW 2

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Excavations in the Archaic Civic Buildings at Azoria in 2005–2006

Cited by 48 publications

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Archaeobotany in Greece

Archaeobotany in Greece

The Archaic Polis of Azoria

Ancient Organic Residues as Cultural and Environmental Proxies: The Value of Legacy Objects

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