Description: This publication includes a detailed discussion of the pottery, the finds and their parallels, and a reconstruction of both the excavation and stratigraphy of Tholos Gamma in the Bronze Age cemetery of Phourni at Archanes in Crete.
Brief description: Yiannis Papadatos is Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is directing excavation projects in Crete and his main research and teaching interests include Minoan Crete, Early Bronze Age Aegean, archaeology of death and ancient technology of ceramics and metals.
Review Quotes: The book is a very thorough, detailed and careful publication of the excavation context, with many illustrations of the plan and stratigraphic section of the tholos, the location of burials and distribution of the individual finds, in a way which is exceptional in publications of prepalatial cemeteries.[...]...an extremely useful work for every student of prepalatial Minoan Crete and an excellent documentation of a prepalatial tholos tomb assemblage.'--Kostas Sbonias "Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2007"