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INSTAP Academic Press - Prehistory Monographs

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	Prehistory Monographs 35 House X at Kommos: A Minoan Mansion near the Sea. Part 1: Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Selected Finds edited by Maria C. Shaw and Joseph W. Shaw 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. Situated on the seacoast of the western Mesara Plain, Kommos ... Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £52.00
	Prehistory Monographs 34 Hagia Photia Cemetery II: The Pottery by Costis Davaras and Philip P. Betancourt 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 ... Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £52.00
	Prehistory Monographs 33 Transport Stirrup Jars of the Bronze Age and East Mediterranean by Halford W. Haskell, Richard E. Jones, Peter M. Day, and John T. Killen The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world. Found in a variety of contexts, the type was used both to transport and to store liquid commodities in bulk. The peak of the production and exchange of this jar corresponded with the time of economic expansion on the Greek mainland. On Crete, stirrup jars appeared at most major centres on the island. Their presence in large numbers in storerooms ... Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £55.00
	Prehistory Monographs 32 Mochlos IIC, Period IV: The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery - The Human Remains and Other Finds edited by Jeffrey S. Soles and Costis Davaras Excavations carried out at the Late Minoan III settlement and cemetery at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded domestic artifacts, human remains, grave goods, and ecofactual material from 31 tombs and 11 houses. These objects are catalogued, discussed, and illustrated. Radiocarbon dates for the site are also presented. The cemetery remains mirror the settlement remains, and the conclusions discuss how the two sites reflect each other. Rarely in Crete ... Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £64.00
	Prehistory Monographs 31 The Cave of the Cyclops - Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece, Volume II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies edited by Adamantios Sampson This book completes the two-part series that serves as the final report for the excavation of the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra in the Northern Sporades of Greece, a site that was occasionally occupied from the Mesolithic through Roman period. The second volume contains the results of detailed studies on the archaeological material, organic remains, and archeometric analyses that complete the image of this significant archaeological ... Hardback. Price GB £55.00
	Prehistory Monographs 30 Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete by Andonis Vasilakis and Keith Branigan 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 (monastery) in south-central Crete. The grave goods and burial remains include pottery, metal objects, chipped stones, stone vases, gold and stone jewelry, sealstones, and human skeletal material. The results of the associated survey of the upper catchment of the Hagiopharango region ... Hardback. Price GB £55.00
	Prehistory Monographs 29 Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly edited by Philip P. Betancourt and Susan C. Ferrence Prof. James D. Muhly has enjoyed a distinguished career in the study of ancient history, archaeology, and metallurgy that includes an emeritus professorship at the University of Pennsylvania and a term as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as well as receiving the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement. In Muhly's honor, a total of 38 eminent scholars have contributed ... Hardback. Price GB £55.00
	Prehistory Monographs 28 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
	Prehistory Monographs 27 Mochlos IIB: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Pottery by R. Angus K. Smith 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 ... Hardback. Price GB £55.00
	Prehistory Monographs 26 Kavousi IIA: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Summit by Leslie Preston Day, Nancy L. Klein, and Lee Ann Turner This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (19821984) and excavations (19871992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. These sites, Vronda and the Kastro, shed light on the Early Iron Age, the transitional period in Cretan history known popularly as the Dark Ages, thereby elucidating the way of life of the people who ... Hardback. Price GB £50.00

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