Rural Settlement in Hellenistic and Roman Crete: The Akrotiri PeninsulaThe central position of this study is that rural development in Crete under Roman rule (beginning 67 BC) was built upon traditional relationships of people to the land. It is argued that the productive forces behind agricultural subsistence may have altered little from Hellenistic times. The author supports this claim by examining a series of linked variables germane to a reconstruction of rural organization over the periods in question: settlement patterns, land tenure, land use, production activities, and spheres of economic interaction. |
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1st century 1st century A.D. activity agricultural Akrotiri Akrotiri peninsula Alcock amphorae ancient Anopolis Aptera archaeological Ayiofarango base black-gloss BM Map Byz-V glazed calcareous grits centers Chaniotis Chapter city-state CL-HL Classical and Hellenistic coast coastal context Cretan Crete cultivation Density district early historical economic Elev elite estates evidence excavated fabric containing farms Garage glazed sherds Gondicas Gortyna grog harbor Hellenistic period Hierapytna HL-ER identified indicated Kalathas Kavousi Khania Kissamos Knossos Kydonia land Lasithi Late Hellenistic Late Roman located Locus Loutraki Markoulaki material mica Minoa Moody orange fabric pattern peninsula phyllite pink-buff fabric plain polis Polyrrhenia Post-Roman pottery production quartz ravine regions remains ridge rim fig rural sites Sackett Sanders settlement sherds slopes Soudha Bay Sphakia Standard Ware suggests surface survey terrace territory Tersana tombs urban valley Variant villas Visibility Vrokastro walls Watrous West Crete Western Mesara Willetts