The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town. Part I: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries

An Excavation off the South Coast of Crete by the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.Volume 1, Part 1, offers a general introduction to the site of Kommos with chapters on the history and character of its excavation seen within the context of earlier archaeological exploration in the Mesara Plain and specifically in the Kommos area (Joseph W. Shaw), studies on the geomorphology (John A. Gifford), the flora (C. Thomas and Jennifer M. Shay) and the fauna (David S. Reese and others) of the Kom111os region, and ancient and modern land use (Michael Parsons, with John A. Gifford), as well as a catalogue and analysis of finds from a foot survey in the Kommos area led by Richard Hope Simpson. A final chapter on Minoan implements and industries (Harriet Blitzer) provides a transition to Part 2. of this volume as it examines the availability of local resources as well as artifacts derived from them. An appendix to Chapter 2, Part 1, provides an entry from the diary of Sir Arthur Evans, the archaeologist who above all others alerted scholars to the archaeological potential of Kommos