Kavousi IV. The Early Iron Age Cemeteries at Vronda
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Description
This 2 volume set presents the results of the excavation of two cemeteries at the site of Vronda Kavousi in East Crete: the cemetery of tholos tombs belong to the Subminoan to Protogeometric periods (with some use in the eighth century B.C.) and the cemetery of enclosure graves with cremation burials belonging to the Late Geometric to Late Orientalizing periods. A discussion of individual graves (including the stratigraphy, architecture, human remains, faunal and botanical remains, pottery, and other finds) is followed by the analysis of the cremation process and human remains, the faunal and botanical remains, the pottery, the petrographic analysis of the pottery, the metals and other finds, the burial customs, and the history and society of the burying population. A study of the capacities of some of the pottery vessels and a metallurgical analysis of the iron objects appear in appendices. Volume 1 contains the text and Volume 2 contains the Tables, Charts, Figures, and Plates.
Contents: Volume 1: Frontmatter. 1. Introduction, Leslie Preston Day. 2. Tholos Tombs at Vronda, Leslie Preston Day and Maria A. Liston. 3. Enclosure Burials at Vronda, Leslie Preston Day, Maria A. Liston, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, David S. Reese, and Lynn M. Snyder. 4. Cremation Process, Maria A. Liston. 5. Human Remains, Maria A. Liston. 6. Faunal and Botanical Remains, Lynn M. Snyder, David S. Reese, and Kimberly Flint-Hamilton. 7. Funerary Architecture, Leslie Preston Day. 8. Early Iron Age Pottery, Leslie Preston Day. 9. Petrographic Analysis of the Grave Ceramic Assemblage, Eleni Nodarou.
10. Finds Other than Pottery, Leslie Preston Day, with a contribution by Julie Unruh. 11. Burial Customs, Leslie Preston Day.
12. History and Society in the Vronda Graves, Leslie Preston Day. Appendix A. Estimates of Vessel Capacities, Kevin T. Glowacki. Appendix B. Metallographic and Analytical (SEM-EDAX) Investigation of Metalwork from Early Iron Age Kavousi, Effie Photos-Jones. Appendix C. Concordance of Excavation Inventory Numbers with Catalog Numbers and Museum Numbers. References. Index. Volume 2: Frontmatter. Tables. Charts. Figures. Plates.
Hardback: 454 pp. of text Vol. 1, 330 pp. of backmatter Vol. 2, 175 figs., 83 pls., 31 tables, 15 charts.
(Prehistory Monographs 71, INSTAP Academic Press, 2023)
ISBN 978-1-931534-36-9
