Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age: The Halasarna Finds and the Aegean Settlement Pattern

Mercourios Georgiadis

City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Year: 2012

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Series: Prehistory Monographs 38

Description: Hardback, 288 p., 5 tables, 9 b/w maps, 25 b/w figures, 18 b/w plates, 28.6x22.1 cm

Abstract

This volume is based on material from an intensive and systematic field survey of Halasarna (modern Kardamaina), located on a coastal plain in the southern part of the Dodecanesian island of Kos, and a study of settlement patterns across the Aegean. It provides a new corpus of data on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods, presents a material sequence based on stylistic analysis, and develops a diachronic understanding of settlement dynamics within a wider regional context.

Contents

List of Tables and Maps [iii]
List of Figures [v]
List of Plates [xii]
Acknowledgments [xvi]
List of Abbreviations [xviii]

1. Introduction [1]

PART I. THE FINDS FROM THE HALASARNA SURVEY PROJECT 2003-2006

2. Topography of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Sites [17]

3. Pottery Fabrics [21]

4. Pottery Shapes [35]

5. The Pottery from Halasarna in Chronological and Regional Perspective [85]

6. Chipped Stone [95]

7. Ground Stone [103]

8. Small Finds [115]

9. The Halasarna Chronology [119]

10. Catalog of Diagnostic Finds [123]

PART II. NEOLITHIC AND EARLY BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE AEGEAN ISLANDS

11. Settlement Patterns in the Pre-Neolithic and Neolithic Aegean [153]

12. Early Bronze Age Settlement Patterns [181]

13. Diachronic Developments in the Halasarna Region in Their Broader Aegean Context [205]

References [209]

Index [227]