Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77

by A. Colin Renfrew

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Extent: 540 pages

Publisher: British School at Athens

Subjects: European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2007)

ISBN: 9780904887549

Price: $246.00

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The excavations undertaken by the British School at Athens at the Bronze Age site of Phylakopi in the Cycladic island of Melos from 1896 to 1899, under the immediate supervision of Duncan Mackenzie, have been described (by no less an authority than Carl Blegen) as: ‘the first really serious effort to understand stratification, the first really good excavation in Greece’. Since that time Phylakopi has been a key site both for the study of the Cycladic Bronze Age and of prehistoric Aegean interconnections. This volume completes the authoritative account of the excavations undertaken for the British School of Archaeology from 1974 to 1977 under the direction of Colin Renfrew. Leading specialists contribute full descriptions of the stratigraphy, of the pottery of successive phases and of the other finds, now making Phylakopi one of the most comprehensively documented and published sites of the Aegean Bronze Age. Phylakopi was a settlement in close touch with other areas, notably Minoan Crete and Helladic Greece, from the Early Bronze Age onwards, with a marked increase in Minoan imports during the Middle Bronze Age.

  • By (author) A. Colin Renfrew