This fascicle completes the presentation of the ceramic remains from the Franchthi Cave excavations.

Franchthi Neolithic Pottery, Volume 2: The Later Neolithic Ceramic Phases 3 to 5, Fascicle 10 (Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece)

History

Vitelli, Karen D.

Ancient Civilizations

Indiana University Press

"... a highly innovative study that foregrounds the decision-making and technological choices of Neolithic potters... "Â —Antiquity"... imaginative, rigorous and admirably lucid study." —Journal of Hellenic StudiesThe first of two systematic reports on the more than one million sherds of pottery recovered from the Franchthi Cave and Paralia which will significantly increase our understanding of Neolithic pottery and Neolithic society in southern Greece. Illustrated.

Franchthi Neolithic Pottery, Volume 1: Classification and Ceramic Phases 1 and 2, Fascicle 8 (Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece)

Archaeological Ethics

Looting. Reburial and repatriation. Relations with native peoples. Professional conduct. The second edition of Archaeological Ethics combines compelling articles on these topics written for a general audience with valuable teaching aids. The updated articles provide a fascinating introduction to the issues faced every day in archaeological practice. The article summaries, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and resource guide serve as excellent teaching aids and make this volume ideal for classroom use.

Politics & Social Sciences

Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip

Archaeology

AltaMira Press

Beneath the famous remains of the House of the Tiles and the other Bronze Age remains found at Lerna, a large amount of Neolithic pottery was found during 1950s excavations by the American School of Classical Studies. Although the mixing of material makes it impossible to establish an independent ceramic sequence for the site, the author is able to differentiate Early and Middle Neolithic types using her knowledge of material from the well-stratified Franchthi Cave, across the Argolic Gulf. By placing the ceramic material in archaeological context, the author makes a number of important new claims about Lerna’s earliest history. While the date of the first settlement is still unclear, the Middle Neolithic was clearly a time of intensive occupation at Lerna, when the digging of at least one long ditch across the site suggests some internal planning. Sherds of the first Late Neolithic phase are totally absent, suggesting that Lerna had been abandoned by the end of Middle Neolithic but substantial quantities of Final Neolithic pottery, found largely in pits and two graves, suggest ritual reuse in this period. A final chapter (in both English and Modern Greek) summarizes the results of the study, including the changing patterns of burial practices over the course of the Neolithic. (A CD-ROM with 86 color images of the pottery is included.) This volume is also available to download in .ePub format. This digital format allows reading on your mobile device (such as an iPhone or a Sony Reader) or on your computer (using a reader such as Adobe Digital Editions). Click on the following link to download the .ePub edition: Download as .zip file

The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? is an edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of writing her dissertation in Athens during a coup (1968-1974). An introductory chapter provides background information to clarify references in the letters, additional new comments within the letters amplify points and events, and a final chapter sums up her post-dissertation years. The letters were written during lively times politically and socially, as well as archaeologically, in Greece and around the world. The author was often torn between immersing herself in the past and being involved in the upheavals of that present. The letters show her frequent questioning about whether to remain in archaeology or become an 'activist,' and how she eventually found ways to do both.

Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist?: Letters from the Field 1968-74 (Archaeological Lives)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Archaeopress