Early Iron Age

John K. Papadopoulos is a Professor in the Department of Classics and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. Evelyn Lord Smithson (1923-1992) was a Professor of Classics and Archaeology at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

• ContentsPrefaceChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Four Cemeteries: A Catalogue of Tombs and Their ContentsChapter 3: Human Skeletons from the Athenian Agora Early Iron Age CemeteriesChapter 4: Faunal Remains from Early Iron Age Tombs in the Athenian AgoraChapter 5: Burial Customs and Funerary RitesChapter 6: The Early Iron Age PotteryChapter 7: The Small Finds Other than PotteryChapter 8: Epilogue: Social and Historical Conclusions

It would be hard to exaggerate the importance of this work. Papadopoulos has offered a landmark study of an important body of material and an authoritative analysis that is indispensable for anyone interested in the archaeology of Athens, the Aegean of the Early Iron Age, or burial and society. This is a major reference work, like many volumes in the series of the Athenian Agora, as well as a superb model for future publication of cemeteries in Greece and the Mediterranean. Antonis Kotsonas, AJA 123.3, (July 2019). "[The catalogue of tombs] is the core and the greatest achievement of the book, presenting much more data than was previously available in preliminary reports and on the Agora Excavation's online database. Tombs already more fully presented are completely republished, adding many pages to the book but nicely assembling all the information in a single volume . . . minor details are added even for burials previously presented in detail." Maximilian F. Rönnberg, BMCR 2018.09.09. "This new volume in the Athenian Agora series is a modern and well-produced study of the mortuary material from the Athenian Agora ...." Stefanos Gimatzidis, Journal of Hellenic Studies 139 (November 2019), pp. 270-271.