April 2008 (112.2)

Forum Response

The Keros Hoard: Remaining Questions

By Colin Renfrew

Read Article

Sotirakopoulou’s Forum Article in this issue of the AJA, like her valuable book The Keros Hoard: Myth or Reality?, takes its importance not so much from its subject matter or from the exemplary thoroughness of its treatment of the material as it does through the significance of the site from which much of that material may derive. The site of Kavos, on the Cycladic island of Keros—along with the small islet of Dhaskalio, which lies 80 m to the west—is gradually emerging as one of the richest and most remarkable of the Aegean Early Bronze Age.

The Keros Hoard: Remaining Questions

By Colin Renfrew

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 112, No. 2 (April 2008), pp. 295-298

DOI: 10.3764/aja.112.2.295

© 2008 Archaeological Institute of America