Description
In addition to being an archaeological guide, this beautifully illustrated volume tells the tale of 30 years of fieldwork and study at one of the crucial lesser known, but most intellectually fascinating, sites in Crete. In prehistory, Kommos was once a busy harbor the town with trading links extending to Egypt and Sardinia. The writer traces the improvement of the settlement, its mysterious abandonment, after which resurrection as a spiritual web page around 1000 B.C.