Joseph W Shaw

Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete, Volume I, Part I: The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town. Part I: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries - Princeton Legacy Library Joseph W Shaw

Publisher Marketing: Kommos, located on the south coast of Crete, is widely known for its important sanctuary of the Greek period. and for its earlier role as a major Minoan harbortown. Volumes II and III of this series on the results of the major excavations there have already been published. Now Part I of Volume I offers a general introduction to the site with chapters on the history and character of its excavation seen within the context of earlier archaeological exploration of the Mesara Plain and specifically in the Kommos area (Joseph W. Shaw) and studies on the geomorphology (John A. Gifford), the flora (C. Thomas Shay and Jennifer M. Shay, with Katherine A. Frego and Janusz Zwiazek) and the fauna (David S. Reese, with contributions by Mark J. Rose and Sebastian Payne) of the Kommos region, and ancient and modern land use (Michael Parsons, with John A. Gifford), A catalogue and analysis of finds from a foot survey in the Kommos area are included (Richard Hope Simpson, with Philip P. Betancourt, Peter J. Callaghan, Deborah K. Harlan, John W. Hayes, Joseph W. Shaw, Maria C. Shaw, and L. Vance Watrous). A final chapter by Harriet Blitzer treats Minoan implements and industries. This excavationwas conducted by the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contributor Bio:  Shaw, Joseph W Joseph W. Shaw was born and grew up in western Oklahoma. A 1972 graduate of the University of New Mexico and a 1973 graduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers, Shaw currently lives in Albuquerque with Gina, his wife and business partner of forty-three years. Together they own and operate the real estate firm of Shaw & Shaw Ltd., Realtors. Contributor Bio:  Shaw, Maria C Maria C. Shaw is professor emeriti at the University of Toronto, have worked at numerous ancient sites on Mainland Greece and elsewhere in the Aegean. While Maria Shaw has focused on iconography, especially that of prehistoric Minoan and Mycenaean frescoes.