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24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2026

Kouphovouno: A Neolithic and Bronze Age Site in Laconia. Excavations 2001–06

William Cavanagh, †Christopher Mee & Josette Renard (επιμέλεια)

Kouphovouno: A Neolithic and Bronze Age Site in Laconia. Excavations 2001–06

Πόλη: London

Έτος: 2025

Εκδότης: British School at Athens

Σειρά: BSA Suppl. Vol. 54

Περιγραφή: Σκληρό εξώφυλλο, 486 σ., 224 εικόνες,  16 πίνακες εντός κειμένου, 40 πίνακες εικόνων (28 ασπρόμαυροι & 12 έγχρωμοι)

New excavations at Kouphovouno, in the Peloponnese, yield fresh insights into the Middle and Late Neolithic, and the Early and Middle Bronze Ages of Greece. Living spaces, architecture, the agricultural economy, early technologies, site formation, chronology, burials and population are discussed in the light of new data. Innovative methods of analysis include isotopic characterisation of plant and animal remains to investigate the farming regime, and the site’s chronology has been clarified through a combination of stratigraphy, seriation, and Bayesian analysis of 14C dates. Results from an initial surface survey are compared with the results from excavation. The archaeological detail which underwrites the analysis, including the full petrographic study of the ceramics, is available as a downloadable PDF and is intended that this should also be a quarry of data for future research.

Περιεχόμενα

List of Figures [x]
List of Tables [xiv]
List of Plates [xv]
List of Colour Plates [xvii]
List of Pocket Plans [xiii]
List of Appendices A1-A11 (Supplementary material) [xix]
General Abbreviations [xxv]
Acknowledgements [xxvii]

Introduction [xxix]

Chapter 1. Kouphovouno in Laconia [1-6]
W. Cavanagh

Chapter 2. Fieldwork [7-145]
W. Cavanagh & J. Renard, with contributions by C. Ballut

Chapter 3. Dating [147-151]
W. Cavanagh

Chpater 4. The pottery [153-294]
C. Mee & W. Cavanagh

Chapter 5. The chipped stone tools [295-313]
J. Renard

Chapter 6. The stone tools [315-340]
J. Renard

Chapter 7. Other finds [341-353]
W. Cavanagh

Chapter 8. The burials [355-362]
W. Cavanagh &A. Lagia

Chapter 9. Environmental archaeology at Kouphovouno

The archaeobotany of Neolithic Kouphovouno: plant use and agriculturas practice [363-371]
Charlotte Diffey & Amy Bogaard

The archaeozoology of Neolithic Kouphovouno: animal exploitation and consumption [371-380]
Armelle Gardeisen & Jean Cantuel

Chapter 10. The architecture [381-411]
W. Cavanagh & J. Renard, with contributions by C. Ballut

Chapter 11. Kouphovouno on its broader context [413-424]
W. Cavanagh & J. Renard

Bibliography [425-446]
Index [447-456]
Plates
Colour plates
List of Appendices A1-A11 (Supplementary material)