Letter from Katerina Kopaka to Emmett L. Bennett Jr., January 12, 2000

In an email exchange, Bennett writes to Kopaka that he has copies of files which she has requested. She responds with an address where to send these files.Classic

‘Gavdos: The House’. A Theatre/Archaeology Narrative and Pieces of Knowledge of Diachronic Home Life

At the site called Katalymata, on the island of Gavdos off the south western Cretan shores, the University of Crete is excavating a spacious building complex dating back to the Bronze Age (3rd and mainly 2nd millennia BC). In this paper, we discuss a theatrical performance inspired by this discovery and investigation, which was first presented in situ on the field in 2012. The play was created by young members of the research team, who are themselves both archaeologists and actors. It is based on the accounts in the excavation notebooks of the prehistoric activities revealed in the building’s stratigraphy and enlivened by the memories of the modern islanders of their happenings at home. It also draws upon wider cognitive pieces of relevant knowledge—philosophical, literary and other. This combination was moulded to produce a structured narrative of domestic life on the island through time, and illustrate some specific aspects and overall meanings, material and symbolic, of ‘dwelling’ down the ages. Since its Gavdiot premiere, the work has been adapted for different media to travel in Greece and elsewhere in Europe, as a performative guided tour played in historic houses, as a lecture performance for conferences and art venues, and as an audiovisual installation in museums of contemporary art

BEKIARI C.: Supporting Chronological Reasoning in Archaeology

Abstract. This paper is a study on the formal representation of the information concerning archaeological finds and historical data that is relevant to the discourse about chronology. It aims at contributing to the theoretical foundations of chronological reasoning in Archaeology. Starting from the ontological analysis of the CIDOC CRM (ISO/CD21127), we define and classify elements of archaeological and historical evidence through the kinds of their chronological consequences and the complexity of chronological reasoning that they can support. Our work also aims at identifying broad categories that may allow for generalization and unification of the vast variety of methods discussed in the literature. Moreover, we identify five classes of evidence and background knowledge for temporal reasoning, and suggest a generalized interval-based formalism