Kouphovouno: A Neolithic and Bronze Age Site in Laconia. Excavations 2001–06
Edited by William Cavanagh, †Christopher Mee & Josette Renard
City: London
Year: 2025
Publisher: British School at Athens
Series: BSA Suppl. Vol. 54
Description: Hardback, 486 pp, 224 figures, 16 tables in text, 40 pp plates (28 b/w + 12 colour)
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.
Contents
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)