Published by: British School at Athens
Supplementary Volumes No. 26
Editors: William Cavanagh, Joost Crouwel, Richard Catling, Donald Shipley

This intensive, full-coverage survey was conducted by the Universities of Nottingham and Amsterdam in conjunction with the British School at Athens between 1983 and 1988. It covered a territory of just over 70 sq km in central Laconia, extending from the east side of the River Evrotas, close to Sparta, up into the foothills of the Parnon range. The Survey identified over 400 sites, the great majority of them previously unknown, dating variously to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Veneto-Turkish periods. The new information makes possible a re-evaluation of the settlement history and rural economy of Sparta and Laconia. This is presented in Volume I, in which the ecology and geomorphology of the region set the scene for period by period analyses of the results and implications of the Survey. Volume II assembles the primary data, including a pottery series for each period and separate studies of chipped and ground-stone artefacts, inscriptions, architectural fragments, other finds, and the results of geophysical survey. The site catalogue is complemented by a new gazetteer of archaeological sites in the rest of Laconia. Vol I - Methodology and Interpretation. Chapters cover the survey methodology (Cavanagh, Shipley, Crouwel), soils (Fiselier, van Berghem), historical ecology (Rackham), prehistory (Cavanagh, Crouwel), the archaic-classical period (Catling), the hellenistic-Roman (Shipley), the Byzantine-Ottoman (Armstrong), and modern settlements (Wagstaff). Approx. xxx + 500 pp., 92 illustrations in text, plus coloured soil map folded in pocket.

ISBN: 0904887227

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Supplementary Volumes No. 25
Editor: Ken Wardle

The excavation of the Early Neolithic site of Nea Nikomedeia by Dr R. J. Rodden between 1961 and 1964 was an important landmark in the development of prehistoric archaeology in Greece. The systematic recovery of the plans of complete houses, of plant and animal remains and of a rich collection of pottery and other artefacts enables a detailed examination of one of the earliest farming settlements in Europe. This first volume of the definitive report includes Dr Rodden's own account of the discovery of the site and the circumstances of the excavation. The full account, with plans and diagrams, of the stratigraphy and the architecture of the post-framed houses has been prepared by Gillian Pyke. The discussion of the fine Early Neolithic pottery by Paraskevi Young includes technical studies of manufacturing techniques as well as full illustration of its variety of shape and decoration.

ISBN: 0904887197

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Supplementary Volumes No. 24

Author: Iphiyenia Tournavitou
The excavation of the important, and in many ways unique, group of Houses at Mycenae, lying outside the Citadel Walls south-west of the Tomb of Clytemnestra, was started under the direction of Alan Wace of the British School at Athens between 1950 and 1955 and completed under that of Nicolas Verdelis between 1957 and 1963. These Houses are notable as the source of the first group of Linear B tablets to be found at Mycenae and for the range of rich finds they contained, many previously unparalleled. This volume (comprising pp. xx + 340 approx., 45 figs., 39 plates; pp. 815 on microfiche) presents a full and complete publication of the actual excavation, the architecture and the finds of all categories, including the 22,000 ivories from which the volume takes its name. In particular, study is made of the function of the Houses individually and as a group and their role in the bureaucracy and economy of Mycenae in the 13th century BC. Detailed catalogues of all the material are available to the reader on microfiche and appendices present scientific analyses of the transport stirrup jars.

ISBN: 090488712X

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Supplementary Volumes No. 23
Editors: MR Popham, P Calligas, Hugh Sackett

This book publishes the building at Lefkandi, Toumba, a structure of key significance in the history of Greek architecture. The excavation of the building and the burials within it is detailed, with a full account of the architecture, the large bronze amphora which housed the warrior's ashes, and minor finds. A chronological sequence is traced through the construction of the building, the human and horse burials inside, and the final heaping of a mound to cover the whole structure. The conclusions to be drawn from this progression about the purpose of the building are explored in the discussion. The pottery finds from the building are published in Lefkandi II, Part 1. Pp. 103 + 38 plates

ISBN: 0 904887 111

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Published by: British School at Athens
Supplementary Volumes No. 22

Authors: Richard Catling, Irene Lemos
In three successive seasons, between 1981 and 1983, a joint Greek-British excavation uncovered a monumental building at the locality 'Toumba' at Lefkandi in Euboea. In the centre of the structure had been buried a warrior, a woman and four horses, with features reminiscent of a hero's burial in Homer. Soon after the burials were made the building was dismantled and covered with a mound. The size and nature of the structure have revolutionised knowledge of early Greek architecture. This first part of the final excavation report is a detailed study of the pottery, which constitutes the evidence for dating the construction and burying of the building to an advanced stage of Middle Protogeometric, conventionally dated around 950 BC, or somewhat earlier. The large quantity of pottery found mostly in the earth fill of the mound has great importance in itself, in that it comprises the largest assemblage of domestic pottery of this little known period discovered so far in Greece. Pp. 200 + 80 plates

ISBN: 0 904887 09X

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