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Uppsala: Åströms Förlag, 2014. In English. Hard cover, 29 cm, 264 pp., ill.: 244 B/W pictures. ISBN: 978-91-981535-0-7.Presents a full report on excavations undertaken in 2010 and 2011at the 13th BC fortified settlement of Pyla-Kokkinokremos in the Larnaca Bay area; and an additional brief report on the 2012 excavations which uncovered two extremely important Cypro-Minoan clay tablets.Chapters 1–3 discuss the stratigraphy and architecture of excavated rooms and complexes and present the site and its architecture in their historical setting. Chapter 4 includes an inventory of objects and diagnostic sherds and Chapter 5 presents a detailed commentary on the pottery, metal and other finds. The volume concludes with a discussion of Pyla-Kokkinokremos and the 'Crisis Years' in Cyprus and remarks on material culture and chronology. Nine appendices discuss Late Helladic IIIB and Late Minoan IIIB amphoroid craters (V. Karageorghis), pot marks (Hirschfeld), 'Canaanite jars' (Georgiou), a bronze plaque… Read More
