Collection: INSTAP
The Institute for Aegean Prehistory established INSTAP Academic Press to publish projects relevant to the history of the Aegean world from the Palaeolithic to the 8th century B.C. It is a scholarly non-profit publisher specializing in high-quality publications of primary source material from archaeological excavations as well as individual studies dealing with material from the prehistoric periods.
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Aegean bronze age rhyta
This comprehensive study of Bronze Age rhyta from the Aegean addresses questions of typology, function, context, and the uses of these vessels. Rhyta are among the most appealing yet enigmatic classes of artefacts from the Aegean Bronze Age, produced in a wide range of forms and media with a cons...
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The wall paintings of the west house at mycenae
The wall paintings from the West House at Mycenae are discussed in relation to their context within the building. Their iconography and stylistic details are explored in relation to other Aegean Bronze Age wall paintings. The fragments are fully cataloged and illustrated with drawings and photos.
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Ayia sotira
This volume is the final publication of the results of excavation of six Mycenaean chamber tombs in the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Ayia Sotira within the Nemea Valley of the Argolid region of Greece. The book is richly illustrated with maps, plans, drawings, photos, and tables of data.
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Knossos tablets
The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets completes nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan Bronze Age. The volume closes with an up-to-date overall ground plan and close-up sector plans of the Palace of Mi...
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Transport stirrup jars of the bronze age aegean and east mediterranean
The transport stirrup jar was a vessel type used extensively in the Late Bronze Age III Aegean world, used both to transport and to store liquid commodities in bulk. This study concentrates on the origins and distribution of the jars and thus tracing exchange routes, placing the jars within their...
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Ke-ra-me-ja
Ke-ra-me-ja is a woman's name that appears on a Linear B tablet from Knossos. It means "potter", and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine's scholarly pursuits: Mycenaean ceramics and Linear B texts. The essays presented to her in this volume demonstrate that her research has had a wi...
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The late minoan iii necropolis of armenoi
This is the first volume on the Late Minoan III necropolis of Armenoi in western Crete. It sets the scene, introduces the site and its topography, and offers the results of site surveys and their finds.
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Kavousi i
This volume provides a comprehensive look at the topography of the area of the archaeological investigation near the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. It sets the stage for the report on the excavations and provides an introduction to the local soils and to the pottery classification us...
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Chalasmenos i
This is the first volume on the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Chalasmenos, located near Ierapetra in eastern Crete. The site was excavated (1992-2014), initially as part of a Greek-American project under the direction of Metaxia Tsipopoulou and the late William Coulson.
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Kos in the neolithic and early bronze age
This volume, based on material from a field survey of Halasarna (modern Kardamaina), located on a coastal plain in the southern part of the Dodecanesian island of Kos, and a study of settlement patterns across the Aegean, provides a new corpus of data on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age periods.
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Keos xi: wall paintings and social context
The iconography of Late Bronze Age wall paintings is presented in their social context within the Cycladic island of Kea and the wider Aegean world. Town, land, and seascapes illustrate the community of this harbor. This book is lavishly illustrated with many color drawings, visualizations, and p...
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Livari skiadi
This book is the first of a two-volume final report on the excavation of the Minoan cemetery and associated finds at Livari Skiadi in the southeastern end of Crete. This volume deals with the excavation of the site and its architecture, pottery and other finds, dating to the Prepalatial, Neopalat...
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Ayioryitika
Ayioryitika, a large settlement in Arcadia in central Greece, is particularly important for its beautifully decorated Middle Neolithic pottery and for its figurines of human figures and animals. Excavated in 1928 by Carl Blegen, the research was never published.This volume provides the fragmentar...
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Mochlos iib
Excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded a pottery assemblage from 31 tombs and 11 houses, which are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated together with petrographic analyses. A series of scientific excavation reports (Mochlos vols. IIA-IIC) documen...
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Mochlos ia
Mochlos is a Minoan town in northeast Crete. Three volumes present the results of the excavations in the Neopalatial levels of the Artisans' Quarter, and at the farmhouse at Chalinomouri: Mochlos IA presents the process of excavation and the architecture; volume IB presents the pottery; and volum...
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Kavousi iib
This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi in eastern Crete. It describes the excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of the buildings on the slopes of the Vronda ridge.
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Mochlos iii
This volume presents the first of several Late Hellenistic buildings that were uncovered on the island of Mochlos, off the northeastern coast of Crete, during Greek-American excavations of the last 25 years. It provides an introduction to the Hellenistic settlement that flourished on the island f...
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Kavousi iic
This book is the third volume in the final report of the cleaning and excavations at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement of Vronda, located near Kavousi in eastern Crete, conducted between 1983 and 1992. Detailed analyses of the architecture, pottery, figurines, stone tools and botanical and faunal r...
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Mortuary behavior and social trajectories in pre- and protopalatial crete
This book constitutes an effort to reach a better understanding of a key period in Cretan and European history by a clear and concise approach to the funerary evidence: it is a comprehensive study of the totality of the known Cretan mortuary record during the Pre- and Protopalatial periods.
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Prehistory of the paximadi peninsula, euboea
The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented in this book: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Eub...
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The alatzomouri rock shelter
This handsome volume describes and illustrates the excavation of an artificial rock shelter in Crete, Greece. Minoan pottery and small finds such as stone tools, loomweights, and ecofactual remains were recovered. The ceramics elucidate the style and chronology of East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware w...
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Kavousi iia
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.
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The galatas survey
This book traces the socioeconomic and political development of the Galatas area and its relations with other areas of Crete during the Neolithic-Ottoman periods. Two powerful rival centers in Crete, Knossos/Herakleion and Kastelli/Lyttos, brought the Galatas area under their control at various t...
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Gournes, pediada
An Early Bronze Age cemetery with 37 tombs shows strong relations with the Cyclades during the time of the Kampos Cultural Group, as exemplified by distinctive pottery, obsidian, and metal items. A dense social network included the Cycladic islands and contacts with distant areas of Crete.
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The politics of storage
The storage of staples and its importance for the functioning of Cretan Bronze Age society has become an active topic of debate. This study reassesses the intrinsic relationship between storage and sociopolitical complexity by combining testimonies on the storage of staples from palatial, nonpala...
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Mochlos ib
Mochlos is a Minoan town in northeast Crete. Three volumes present the results of the excavations in the Neopalatial levels of the Artisans' Quarter, and at the farmhouse at Chalinomouri: Mochlos IA presents the process of excavation and the architecture; volume IB presents the pottery; and volum...
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An archaeological palimpsest in minoan crete
This publication presents the archaeological evidence from two associated Minoan sites situated at Apesokari in the Mesara Plain of South-Central Crete, Tholos Tomb A and the neighboring free-standing domestic complex on Vigla Hill.
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The bronze age begins
This book focuses on economic and social changes, particularly during the opening phase of the Minoan civilization on the island of Crete. New developments in ceramics that reached Crete at the end of the Neolithic period greatly contributed to the creation of economic, technological and religiou...
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Kingship in the mycenaean world and its reflections in the oral tradition
Motivated by the problems of defining the extent and nature of kingship in the Mycenaean world, this book surveys studies of the Linear B tablets, contrasts these theories with knowledge of the Mycenaean kingdoms gained from the archaeological record and compares this evidence with the oral tradi...
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Mochlos iia
The results of excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete are presented. The stratigraphy and architecture of a total of 31 tombs and 11 houses are discussed together with a complete list of artifacts, ecofacts, and skeletal remains from each context.
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Introduction to aegean art
This textbook is a compilation of the author's more than 35 years of teaching and excavation experience in the field of Aegean Bronze Age art history and archaeology. It is geared toward an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as an introduction to Bronze Age art objects and architecture.
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Daidalos at work
This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos. Architecture is the protagonist, whereas the prehistoric time of this architecture is as important as any other historical time.
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An archaeological survey of the gournia landscape
A regional survey was undertaken in the central part of the Mirabello Bay area: along the northeastern coast of Crete in the Gournia Valley and the northern half of the Isthmus of Ierapetra, ending in the valley of Episkopi, to provide a regional context for the Bronze Age palace and settlement o...
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The cave of the cyclops
This book completes the two-part final report for the excavation of the Cave of the Cyclops on the island of Youra in the Northern Sporades of Greece, a site that was occasionally occupied from the Mesolithic through Roman period. It contains studies on the archaeological material, organic remain...
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Elite minoan architecture
This book's aim is to trace the development of elite Minoan architectural forms that arose during the late Protopalatial (Middle Minoan II) and early Neopalatial periods (Middle Minoan III). The study concentrates on the older, larger sites of Knossos, Malia and Phaistos where those forms seem to...
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Mochlos ic
Mochlos is a Minoan town in northeast Crete. Three volumes present the results of the excavations in the Neopalatial levels of the Artisans' Quarter, and at the farmhouse at Chalinomouri: Mochlos IA presents the process of excavation and the architecture; volume IB presents the pottery; and volum...
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The cretan collection in the university of pennsylvania museum iii
This third volume about the Cretan Collection in the Penn Museum presents the Minoan metal artifacts. They provide primary evidence for the early history of metallurgy in southeastern Europe during the second millennium B.C. The assemblage is remarkable for the light its objects shed on the histo...
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5,000 years of fine cretan wines
The long history of wine on Crete includes wine from a Minoan shipwreck, the role of Dionysos/Bacchus, and the famous Malvasia wine among other glimpses throughout the centuries. Legacy grape varietals have been recognized and replanted with a renewed appreciation by modern Cretan winemakers for ...
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Pseira vi
Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan cemetery at Pseira in 1907, but the work was never published. Pseira VI publishes the methodology that was employed for the investigation, the topography of the cemetery area, the ceramic petrography for the cemetery pottery, and the results of the intensive...
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Pseira vii
The results of the cemetery excavations on the small island off the northeast coast of Crete are published in two volumes: Pseira VII presents the results from the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery.
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Power and place in the prehistoric aegean and beyond
The title and thematic orientation of this book demonstrate an attention to power inequalities in the past, particularly as manifested through social access to architectural spaces and landscapes.
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The shrine of eileithyia, minoan goddess of childbirth and motherhood volume ii
This book presents the pottery and the clay and metal sculptures dedicated to the deity Eileithyia in her shrine at Inatos, in southern Crete. This is the second of three planned volumes on this assemblage of specialized gifts to a unique goddess. It follows the Egyptiaka from the shrine that wer...
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Bramiana
The Minoan site at Bramiana in southeastern Crete provides evidence for a Bronze Age economy based on trade, agriculture and craftwork. This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices, revealing a trade network of cooking ...
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Thin-section petrography of ceramic materials
As part of the INSTAP Archaeological Excavation Manual series, Thin-Section Petrography of Ceramic Materials provides a concise overview of the history and application of the practice while detailing how this type of petrographic analysis can benefit archaeologists in the field.
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The shrine of eileithyia minoan goddess of childbirth and motherhood volume i
This volume is a catalog of the ancient Egyptian imports and Egyptianizing artifacts found in 1962 during the excavation of a cave near Tsoutsouros (ancient Inatos), Crete, Greece: a sanctuary dedicated to the Minoan and Greek goddess Eileithyia.
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Kavousi iv (2-volume set)
This two-volume set presents the results of the excavation of two cemeteries at the site of Vronda Kavousi in East Crete: the cemetery of tholos tombs belong to the Subminoan to Protogeometric periods and the cemetery of enclosure graves with cremation burials belonging to the Late Geometric to L...
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Marsa matruh i
This volume provides an overview of the excavations at the site of Marsa Matruh on Bates' Island, located in a lagoon on the coast of the north of Egypt's western desert. It reveals the Late Bronze Age and historical period occupations, and provides an introduction to the environmental morphology...
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Gournia, vasiliki, and other prehistoric sites on the isthmus of hierapetra, crete
This volume presents the primary archaeological report about the excavation of the Late Minoan I town of Gournia in eastern Crete, directed by Harriet Boyd Hawes at the beginning of the 20th century. This second edition presents exactly the same information and images as the first edition, but in...
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