Kavousi IIA

The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda: The Buildings on the Summit

by Leslie Preston Day, Nancy L. Klein and Lee Ann Turner

Book cover: Kavousi IIA

Extent: 408 pages

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Subjects: European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Prehistory Monographs

Series volume number: 26

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2009)

ISBN: 9781931534512

Price: $95.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2009)

ISBN: 9781623030421

Price: $76.00

This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (1982-1984) and excavations (1987-1992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete.


This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (1982-1984) and excavations (1987-1992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. These sites, Vronda and the Kastro, shed light on the Early Iron Age, the transitional period in Cretan history known popularly as the Dark Ages, thereby elucidating the way of life of the people who lived in the area of Kavousi during that period and how their culture changed over time. Kavousi IIA is devoted to the excavation of material from the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Vronda, particulary the houses on the summit of the Vronda ridge (Buildings A-B, C-D, J-K, and Q), along with earlier (Building P) and later (Building R) structures around them.

  • By (author) Nancy L. Klein
  • By (author) Leslie Preston Day
  • By (author) Lee Ann Turner