Research Catalog

Title

The Alatzomouri rock shelter : an early Minoan III deposit in eastern Crete / edited by Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan, and Philip P. Betancourt ; with contributions from Vili Apostolakou, Philip P. Betancourt, Thomas M. Brogan, Joanne E. Cutler, Heidi M.C. Dierckx, Susan C. Ferrence, Floyd W. McCoy, Evi Margaritis, Dimitra Mylona, and Eleni Nodarou.

Publication

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : INSTAP Academic Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Apostolakou, Vilē
• Brogan, Thomas M.
• Betancourt, Philip P., 1936-

Description

xx, 136 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of figures, 49 numbered pages of plates; 29 cm.

Summary

"Describes and illustrates the excavation of an artificial rock shelter in Crete, Greece. Pottery and small finds such as stone tools, loomweights, and ecofactual remains were recovered. The ceramics elucidate the style and chronology of East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware, which dates to the end of the Early Bronze Age"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Prehistory monographs ; 58

Uniform Title

Prehistory monographs ; 58.

Subjects

• Pacheía Ámmos (Greece) > Antiquities
• Caves > Greece > Pacheía Ámmos
• Pottery, Minoan > Greece > Pacheía Ámmos
• Crete (Greece) > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Pacheía Ámmos
• Minoans > Material culture > Greece > Pacheía Ámmos

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

[1] The evidence -- Introduction / Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan, and Philip P. Betancourt -- Geology and geoarchaeology / Floyd W. McCoy -- Excavation and stratigraphy / Thomas M. Brogan -- Pottery / Philip P. Betancourt and Thomas M. Brogan -- Chipped and ground stone tools / Heidi M.C. Dierckx -- Textile tools / Thomas M. Brogan and Joanne E. Cutler -- Marine animals / Dimitra Mylona -- Archaeobotanical remains / Evi Margaritis -- Miscellaneous objects / Thomas M. Brogan and Philip P. Betancourt -- Pottery statistics / Philip P. Betancourt, Thomas M. Brogan, and Susan C. Ferrence -- Ceramic petrography / Eleni Nodarou -- [2] Discussion -- Evidence for chronology / Philip P. Betancourt, Thomas M. Brogan, and Vili Apostolakou -- Interpretation of the rock shelter / Vili Apostolakou, Thomas M. Brogan, Susan C. Ferrence, and Philip P. Betancourt -- Concordance A: Hagios Nikolaos Museum numbers and catalog numbers -- Concordance B: Field and catalog numbers.

ISBN

• 9781931534932
• 1931534934
• 9781623034153 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017010701

OCLC

• ocn978285578
• 978285578
• SCSB-8938392

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries