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Kavousi IIB
The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Periphery
Leslie Preston Day (Author); Kevin T. Glowacki (Author)
This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning
and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi in eastern
Crete. It describes the excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of the buildings
on the slopes of the Vronda ridge: Building Complexes E, I-O-N, and L-M, Building
F, and the pottery kiln, as well as areas excavated on the periphery that did not
belong to any of these buildings. It also presents lists, catalogs, and images of
artifacts and ecofacts that were uncovered at the site.
Table of Contents: 1. Building Complex E; 2. Building F; 3. Kiln and Surrounding
Area; 4. Building Complex I-O-N, 5. Building Complex L-M; 6. Other Areas in
the Environs of the Vronda Ridge; Appendix A. Archaeomagnetic Results from
Kavousi
9781931534697, £53.00, Available Now, HB, 444p, 70 B/W charts, 136 B/W figures, 30 B/W plates,
Prehistory Monographs 39, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea
T. Cullen (Author); L. E. Talalay (Author); W. R. Ferrand (Author); D. R. Keller (Author)
The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation
at Plakari (near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the
Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern
Euboea. These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea
Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the
study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea
for over 25 years. These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists
once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region
in prehistory. The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and
social landscape that characterised the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the
Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and
vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork.
9781931534703, £46.00, April 2013, HB, 280p, 22 tables, 37 B/W figures, 47 B/W plates,
Prehistory Monographs 40, INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Prehistory – Aegean
Aphrodite’s Kephali
An Early Minoan I Defensive Site in Eastern Crete
Philip P. Betancourt (Author)
The small site of Aphrodite’s Kephali, among several other Minoan and later sites,
took advantage of the valley topography in the Isthmus of Ierapetra in eastern Crete
by establishing themselves along the nearby hills, resulting in easy access to the
natural trade route between the Aegean and the Libyan Seas. A discussion of the
architecture, artifacts, and ecofacts are presented from the excavation of this Early
Minoan I watchtower. The conclusions challenge some of the commonly held views
about Crete in the third millennium B.C. It is suggested that rather than being a
precursor to a socially complex state that would arise later, early polities involving
several communities probably already existed in the isthmus during the EM I period.
Social and economic differentiation existed on a regional, not just a local level, and
decisions for mutual defense could involve collaboration by groups of workers,
including the building of the watchtower that is the focus of this volume.
9781931534710, £46.00, April 2013, HB, 272p, 30 tables, 97 B/W figures, Prehistory Monographs 41
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
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