Kouphovouno

A Neolithic and Bronze Age Site in Laconia. Excavations 2001-06

by William Cavanagh, Christopher Mee and Josette Renard

Book cover: Kouphovouno

Extent: 486 pages

Publisher: British School at Athens

Subjects: European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Supplementary Volume (British School at Athens)

Series volume number: 54

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(June 2025)

ISBN: 9780904887761

Price: $315.00

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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.

  • By (author) William Cavanagh
  • By (author) Christopher Mee
  • By (author) Josette Renard