Suchergebnisse

The architecture of Vronda / Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein -- The pottery / Leslie Preston Day -- The terracotta figurines / Geraldine C. Gesell -- The ground and chipped stone implements from the settlement / Heidi M.C. Dierckx -- Small finds of various categories / Leslie Preston Day -- The faunal remains / Lynn M. Snyder and David S. Reese -- The palaeoethnobotany of Vronda / Kimberly Flint-Hamilton -- History of Vronda and society of the LM IIIC Settlement / Leslie Preston Day

"This volume 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"--