INSTAP Academic Press
The Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) was founded in 1982 to support projects relevant to the history of the Aegean world from the Paleolithic to the first Olympiad. In 2001, INSTAP Academic Press was started to help publish the results of these projects. The Press is a refereed scholarly publisher of primary source material from archaeological excavations at sites in use during the Prehistoric Period in the Aegean World. All publications are in English.
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The Bronze Age Begins: The Ceramics Revolution of Early Minoan I and the New Forms of Wealth that Transformed Prehistoric Society
by Philip P. Betancourt
This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological, social, and religious advancements we call the Early Bronze Age.
The arguments are two-fold: a detailed explanation of the ceramics we call Early Minoan I ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania II: Pottery from Gournia
by Philip P. Betancourt and Jean Silverman
The Minoan town at Gournia flourished from the Early Bronze Age until its destruction at the end of the Late Minoan IB period. It was later resettled before being abandoned again in LM IIIB. The town was substantial, with houses arranged in irregular ...
Hardback. Price GB £43.00
Hagia Photia Cemetery I: The Tomb Groups and Architecture
by Costis Davaras and Philip P Betancourt
The Hagia Photia Cemetery takes its name from the nearby village on the northeast coast of Crete, 5 km east of modern Siteia. This large Early Minoan burial ground with over fifteen hundred Cycladic imports was discovered in 1971. A total of 263 tombs were excavated as a rescue excavation in 1971 and 1984. Among the 1800 artefacts are some of the earliest known Cretan discoveries of several types: the grave goods come mostly from the Kampos ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00
Introduction to Aegean Art
by Philip P Betancourt
This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to the Bronze Age art objects and architecture that have been uncovered on Crete, the Greek peninsula, and the Cycladic Islands. c.220p, 169 b/w illus, 12 col pls (The Institute for Aegean ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.00
Prehistoric Crete: Regional and Diachronic Studies on Mortuary Systems
edited by Joanne M. Murphy, with contributions by Philip P. Betancourt, Gerald Cadogan, Melissa Eaby, Borja Legarra Herrero, Joanne M. Murphy, and Katia Perna
Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have played seminal roles in our understanding of Minoan culture and the reconstruction of Bronze Age society. For several geographical areas and chronological periods of Cretan history, tombs are the most abundant source of data. Each author in this volume takes a clear and distinct approach to the data, including some that emphasise political geography on ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.00
Pseira II: Building AC (the `shrine') and Other Buildings in Area A
edited by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras
Pseira, in northeast Crete, was a port dating from the end of the Neolithic until the Late Minoan. This, the second volume on the recent joint American-Greek archaeological excavations, reports on the new researches on building AC, the Late Minoan I ...
Hardback. Price GB £41.00
Pseira VI: The Pseira Cemetery I: The Surface Survey
edited by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras
Richard B Seager excavated the Minoan cemetery on Pseira, a small island off the northeast coast of Crete, in 1907, although this work was never published. More recently, the Temple University excavations (1985-1994) under the direction of Philip P Betancourt and Costis Davaras conducted an intensive surface survey of the cemetery area, cleaned and drew plans of all the visible tombs, and excavated tombs that had not been previously investigated. ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
Pseira VII: The Pseira Cemetery II: Excavation of the Tombs
edited by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras
This volume of the reports on the Temple University excavations at the Minoan cemetery on Pseira, a small island off the northeast coast of Crete, covers the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery. The cemetery is remarkable for the diversity of its communal tomb types including burials in cist graves built of vertical slabs, in small tombs constructed of fieldstones, in house tombs, and in jars. The ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00
Pseira X: The Excavation of Block AF
by Philip P. Betancourt
This book is the tenth volume in the series of excavation reports about the harbor town of Pseira, which is located on the island of the same name, just off the northeast coast of Crete. The book focuses on the excavation and interpretation of the architecture and material culture in Block AF. This southern group of buildings is one of the most important areas in the settlement because of its long succession of building phases. Block AF provides ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Retrieval of Materials with Water Separation Machines
by Sarah E Peterson, with contributions by Philip P Betancourt
From the introduction: A water separation, or flotation, machine is an instrument that divides soil into three components: the material that floats (called flot or light fraction), the stones and other heavy portions that do not float (called residue or heavy fraction), and the particles that either dissolve in water or become suspended in it and are washed away.
The primary purpose for utilizing such a device is the recovery of organic ...
Paperback. Price GB £8.00
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