New Publication! The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (NVAP III)

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of
The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (NVAP III) by James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney.

A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel of Mycenae. Excavations there have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood at its southern end. This volume presents the results of these investigations with an unprecedented study of a small settlement’s economy and society in the Mycenaean period. Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates a wide variety of general and specialist studies, the authors demonstrate how agricultural production, craft activities, and ceremonial practices integrated the inhabitants of Tsoungiza into a regional exchange system within the Bronze Age world. The volume includes contributions by P. Acheson, S. E. Allen, K. M. Forste, P. Halstead, S. M. A. Hoffmann, A. Karabatsoli, K. Kaza-Papageorgiou, B. Lis, R. Mersereau, H. Mommsen, J. B. Rutter, T. Theodoropoulou, and J. E. Tomlinson.

Contents
Part 1: Context Studies
Chapter 1. Introduction, by Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright
Chapter 2. Topography, by James C. Wright
Chapter 3. Surface Pottery, by Phoebe Acheson
Chapter 4. Phases of Occupation, by Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright
Chapter 5. Description of Excavations and Finds, by Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright with a contribution by Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou
Chapter 6. The Excavations on Tsoungiza in 1926–1927 conducted by James P. Harland, by James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney
Chapter 7. Conclusions, by Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright

Part 2: Specialist Studies
Chapter 8. Building Materials and Techniques, by Rebecca Mersereau
Chapter 9. Middle Helladic III–Late Helladic II Pottery Groups, by Jeremy B. Rutter
Chapter 10. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analyses
Chapter 11. Late Bronze Age Cooking Vessels, by Bartłomiej Lis
Chapter 12. Chipped Stone Production, by Anna Karabatsoli
Chapter 13. Ground Stone Tools, by James C. Wright
Chapter 14. Tools, Weapons, Figurines, and Personal Ornaments, by Mary K. Dabney and James C. Wright
Chapter 15. Archaeobotanical Remains, by Susan E. Allen and Kathleen M. Forste
Chapter 16. Aquatic Faunal Remains, by Tatiana Theodoropoulou
Chapter 17. Faunal Remains, by Paul Halstead
Concordance of Stratigraphic Units
Concordance of NVAP Inventory Numbers and Catalogue Numbers

Nemea Valley Archaeological Project III
1240 pp, 503 b/w figs, 150 tables
Cloth, 9" x 12"
978-0-87661-924-7

The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (NVAP III) can be ordered from our distribution partners: Casemate Academic (in the United States) or Oxbow Books (outsides of the United States).