The Marble Finds from Kavos and the Archaeology of Ritual: The sanctuary on Keros and the origins of Aegean ritual practice: the excavations of 2006–2008. Volume III
Permanent URI for this collection
The Marble Finds from Kavos and the Archaeology of Ritual: The sanctuary on Keros and the origins of Aegean ritual practice: the excavations of 2006–2008. Volume III
Edited by Colin Renfrew, Olga Philaniotou, Neil Brodie, Giorgos Gavalas & Michael J. Boyd
The status of Kavos on Keros as the earliest maritime sanctuary in the world is documented by the present volume, which includes (in Part A) the full publication of the marble finds from the Special Deposit South at Keros. These constitute the largest assemblage of Early Cycladic sculptures and vessels ever recovered in a controlled excavation, although they were all found in fragmentary condition. They add significantly to the already substantial corpus of finds from well-documented contexts in the Cycladic islands. They open new possibilities for the study of the production and the use of the rich repertoire of Cycladic artefacts of marble and thus to the understanding of ritual practice in Early Cycladic societies. The marble sculptures from the looted Special Deposit North at Kavos that have been recovered in systematic excavations will be discussed in Volume VII.
Also included here (in Part B) are chapters offering our concluding assessment of the roles of the settlement on Dhaskalio and of the two Special Deposits at Kavos.
- The Marble Finds from Kavos and the Archaeology of Ritual
- The Sculptures from the Special Deposit South: Introduction
- The Sculptures from the Special Deposit South: The Finds
- Catalogue of Sculptures from the Special Deposit South & Appendix: Concordance of Special Find, Naxos Museum and Figure Numbers
- The Stone Vessels & Appendix: Quantitative Analyses of the Marble Bowl Fragments
- The Provenance of the Marble Artefacts
- The Pottery from Dhaskalio, the Special Deposit South and the Special Deposit North Compared
- The Fabric Study of the Pottery of Dhaskalio and Kavos & Appendix: Neutron Activation Analysis of Early Cycladic Ceramics from Kavos and Dhaskalio
- Metal production, working and consumption across the sites at Dhaskalio and Kavos
- The Contrasting Material Worlds of Dhaskalio and Kavos
- The Conclusion of the 2006–2008 Project