Oddo Emilia, Chalikias Konstantinos (eds.) South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros

Archaeopress, 2022. — 160 p.South by Southeast: The History and Archaeology of Southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name held in Pacheia Ammos (Crete) in July 2017. Its aim is to investigate the settlement patterns, maritime connectivity, and material culture of the southeast of Crete in a diachronic fashion, in an attempt to define it as a region and trace its history. The title South by Southeast, an ironic take on Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, North by Northwest, encapsulates the uncertainty of what exactly the Southeast means and our need to clarify its geographical limits and cultural span. The papers presented focus primarily on the archaeology of the sites along the coastal strip spanning between the Myrtos Valley and Kato Zakros, an area that has time and again produced evidence of interconnection. Indeed one of the most important aspects surfacing from the volume is the evidence for the diachronic existence of the Southeast as a distinct cultural entity. The elements that tied the sites together shifted at times, forcing us to evaluate the concept of region as a flexible one that reflects different ways of defining a community.Emilia Oddo is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA). Her interests are centred on the archaeology of Crete in the Bronze Age, especially the Late Bronze Age (Neopalatial period, ca. 1700–1470 BCE). She is a specialist in ceramics analysis. Much of her research to date has focused on the ways in which pottery style is manipulated to convey the identities of different geographical areas of Crete as well as different socio-political groups.Konstantinos Chalikias received his PhD from Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany. His research interests include the study of diachronic settlement patterns on Crete, the exploitation of Cretan island and mountain landscapes during the Bronze Age, and the use of technologies such as time-lapse photography and remote sensing in understanding long-term changes in the transformation of cultural landscapes.