Lerna, a Preclassical Site in the Argolid
Lerna, a Preclassical Site in the Argolid

Author: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Publisher: ASCSA

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 982

ISBN-13: 9780876613030

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V.5: CD-ROM contains additional information related to the book The Neolithic pottery from Lerna, as well as software, for which rights have been cleared.

The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna
The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna

Author: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Publisher: ASCSA

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0876613059

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V.5: CD-ROM contains additional information related to the book The Neolithic pottery from Lerna, as well as software, for which rights have been cleared.

Lerna in the Argolid
Lerna in the Argolid

Author: John Langdon Caskey

Publisher: ASCSA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780876616802

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Situated on the shores of the Argolic Gulf, only a few miles away from the much later prehistoric sites of Mycenae, Tiryns, and Midea, Lerna is one of the key building blocks in our understanding of Greek archaeology. The first evidence from the site is Neolithic, and the latest settlement evidence is Mycenaean. However, the most important material from the site comes from the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. when a remarkable large, rectangular building known as The House of the Tiles was built. Possibly never finished, with unpainted walls and doors that lead nowhere, the purpose and meaning of this building has provoked vigorous debate. Was it the house of a chief and the precursor of the later Mycenaean palaces? Or was it a communal storage facility, designed to store the elaborately sealed chests and jars found inside? No less mysterious than its use is its destruction: After a violent fire, a huge mound was built on top of the charred foundations, the area avoided by later house builders. This guide is illustrated with many plans and black and white photos.

The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV
The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV

Author: Elizabeth C. Banks

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Published: 2013-05-17

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1621390128

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In 1995 Jeremy B. Rutter presented the pottery of the Fourth Settlement at Lerna in Lerna III: The Pottery of Lerna IV. The present volume is the companion to the Rutter volume, outlining the architectural sequence of the EH III period at the site with descriptions of the major building types and other features, such as hearths, ovens, and bothroi. Careful examination of the individual buildings and their contents constitutes the core of the text. The changing settlement patterns of the site through time are considered, and sources of influences are suggested.

Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture
Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

Author: Michela Spataro

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2015-10-31

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1782979484

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The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socioeconomic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian ‘technomic’ category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioral schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence.