The storage of staples and its importance for the functioning of Cretan Bronze Age society has become an active topic of debate. This study reassesses the intrinsic relationship between storage and sociopolitical complexity by combining testimonies on the storage of staples from palatial, nonpalatial elite, and ordinary domestic contexts dated to the LM I period. The main goals are (1) to examine a wide range of information concerned with the storage of staples; (2) to develop a comprehensive model to explain how storage strategies operate within LM I societies; and (3) to infer...

Second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project, this title is also the first volume on the cleaning (19821984) and excavations (19871992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete.

Excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded a pottery assemblage from 31 tombs and 11 houses, which are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated together with petrographic analyses. The cemetery remains mirror the settlement remains, and the conclusions discuss how the two sites reflect each other. Rarely in Crete are a settlement and its cemetery both preserved, and it is extremely fortunate to be able to document both in a series of scientific excavation reports (Mochlos IIA-IIC). Contents: Introduction; 1. Petrographic Analysis of the Late Minoan...

This volume of the report on the excavations at the Minoan cemetery on Pseira, a small island off the coast of Crete, covers the excavation and interpretation of the architecture and material culture found in Block AF.

Contains 30 articles that include topics on Bronze and Iron Age metallurgy around the Eastern Mediterranean in such places as Crete, the Cyclades, Cyprus, and Turkey.

This volume presents the final report on the excavation of two prepalatial tholos tombs and their associated remains at Chatzinas Liophyto near the Moni Odigitria in south-central Crete.

This volume details the excavation of the 'Cave of the Cyclops' on the island of Youra in the North Aegean. The cave was occupied at various times from the Mesolithic through Roman periods.

The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world. By establishing the origins and distribution of these jars, these vases are placed within their historical context.

The publication of the Hagia Photia Cemetery is planned in three volumes. The first volume, which has already been published (Davaras and Betancourt 2004), presented the tomb groups and the architecture. The second volume about the excavation of the Hagia Photia cemetery focuses on the pottery. The third volume will present the obsidian, stone finds, metal objects, and other discoveries.

House X is by far the largest and best appointed of the Minoan houses excavated at Kommos in south-central Crete, a Minoan harbor and settlement that later became the site of a Greek sanctuary. This is a description of the stratigraphic excavation of this elite house, along with numerous architectural plans.