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Minoan

Knossos: Protopalatial Deposits in Early Magazine A and the South-West Houses
by Colin F. MacDonald and Carl Knappett, with contributions by I. Schoep, J. Weingarten, V. Isaakidou, and T. Carter
The crucial earliest phases of palatial Knossos are not well known, in part due to over-building by Neopalatial structures and floors. This volume represents the first complete publication of substantial deposits dating to this period, specifically the Middle Minoan IB and IIA phases. This is a first not only for Knossos but for Crete as a whole, and will act as a crucial point of reference for future work on these key phases in the island's ...
Hardback. Price US$136.00

Soil Science and Archaeology: Three Test Cases from Minoan Crete
by Michael W. Morris
A detailed study of the landscape in three regions of Crete
examines the development, stability, and physio-chemical
composition of selected soils near three archaeological sites: Karphi,
a Late Minoan IIIC "Refuge Site"; Chrysokamino, a Final ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00

Knossos Excavations 1957-61: Early Minoan
edited by Sinclair Hood and Gerald Cadogan
From 1957 to 1961, the British School at Athens undertook an extensive programme of stratigraphical excavations at Knossos under Sinclair Hood, then Director of the School. This report publishes in detail the results of investigations into Early Minoan levels, which shed much new light on the era before the 'Old Palace' was established. The three excavations comprised: an Early Minoan I deep well, the oldest at Knossos; trials on the north side ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$195.00, Our Price US$156.00

From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 BC
edited by Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Giorgos Rethemiotakis and Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki
This is a unique two volume box set revealing the history of Crete's luminous Minoan civilization. Volume one is a catalogue of the over 280 objects that were included in the exhibition. It features detailed descriptions as well as excellent color photographs of the wide ranges of rare objects included in the exhibition. While each object is dealt with separately, the volume nonetheless covers numerous aspects of the Minoan culture such as ...

The Knossos Od Series: An Epigraphical Study
by Marie-Louise Nosch
This study is an epigraphical investigation of the Linear B records from the West Wing in the palace of Knossos. Its focus is the group of 61 unclassified Od tablets with the ideogram for wool. The author presents a new classification of the Od tablets by identifying new sets, and by integrating unclassified Od tablets into existing Od sets or into other series recording wool, such as the two well known and thoroughly researched "bureaux", the ...
Paperback. Price US$33.00

Palaikastro: Two Late Minoan Wells
by L.H. Sackett, J.A. MacGillivray, and J.M. Driessen
When Sir Arthur Evans was establishing the chronology of the Minoan period at Knossos in the early twentieth century, Robert Carr Bosanquet and his team from the British School at Athens began to define the contemporary sequence at Palaikastro in eastern Crete. One of the aims of the recent British School excavations at Palaikastro is to refine the early excavator's results and to explore social, political and environmental change within the ...
Hardback. Price US$158.00

Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery. Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P Betancourt, 104th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA, 5 January 2003
edited by Malcom H Wiener, Jayne L Warner, Janice Polonsky and Erin E Hayes
Philip P Betancourt revolutionised the study of Minoan pottery - just one of the many aspects of his career that led to his Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement. This volume presents some of the most recent studies in Minoan pottery using the techniques and methodologies pioneered by Betancourt. An essential collection for any scholar of Minoan pottery or of Aegean Prehistory in general. 157p, col and b/w illus ...
Hardback. Price US$45.00

Knossos: The Little Palace
by Eleni Hatzaki
The Little Palace at Knossos, excavated by Evans and Mackenzie from 1905 - 10, remains the largest neo-palatial building within the Minoan town of Knossos, and to a large extent mirrors the history of the Palace itself. The present work effectively constitutes an excavation report of the LP, publishing for the first time entries from the daybooks of Evans and Mackenzie and many original excavation photographs. The volume provides an extremely ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$134.00, Our Price US$19.98

The Palace of Minos at Knossos
by Chris Scarre and Rebecca Stefoff
On March 23, 1900, Arthur John Evans and his staff began to excavate on Crete, looking for the fabled site of Knossos, where an extraordinary civilization, a precursor to classical Greece, was rumored to have existed. Almost from the first shovel stroke, artifacts began to emerge. Evans realized that here was "an extraordinary phenomenon, nothing Greek, nothing Roman. A wholly unexplored world." The Palace of Minos at Knossos recounts the ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$22.95, Our Price US$5.98

The Cave Sanctuary of Zeus at Psychro: A Study of Extra-urban Sanctuaries in Minoan and Early Iron-Age Crete
by L. Vance Watrous
A study of extra-urban sanctuaries in Minoan and early Iron Age Crete. The study includes a catalogue of the clay finds from the Psychro cave high in the Cretan mountains and sacred to the Cretan Zeus. They have never been published but comprise a large ...
Paperback. Price US$85.00