Markiani, Amorgos: An Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement

by Lila Marangou, Christos Doumas, Colin Renfrew

Markiani in Amorgos is the first rural settlement of the Early Cycladic period to be excavated systematically and published comprehensively. Most of our knowledge of the Cycladic islands of Greece in the third millennium BC comes from the well-known Cycladic cemeteries, with their fine decorated pottery, marble vessels and striking marble figurines. Early Cycladic remains also underlie the proto-urban trading centres of the Aegean Bronze Age, such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0904887529
• ISBN13: 9780904887525
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: British School at Athens
• Length: 312 Pages