Sotira-Kaminoudhia: the University at Albany excavations

Directed by

• Stuart Swiny2001–2005

• University at Albany, State University of New YorkSponsor
• National Endowment for the HumanitiesFunder

1. 2001

   Renewed excavation of the Early Bronze Age settlement to understand its social organisation: two-room houses reached by helical corridors, courtyards, sector A (intact jugs, goblets, cooking vessels, bronze pins, four clay spindle whorls, perforated disc, broken skull), building 41 with courtyard, figurine fragment in building 18 corridor, sector B courtyard 12 partly excavated, sector C hearth and D-shaped basin with grinding stone, pottery, picrolite objects, possible picrolite workshop. Earlier plan from 1983 referred to.

   Directed by S. Swiny[1]

2. 2005

   Last field campaign of the Albany excavations: completion of an architectural complex in zone A, exploration of access to unit 12 and related structures in zone B, and soundings in zone C to find the site's extent to the east. Finds include 98 picrolite objects, 15 fragments and blades of raw material and 62 debitage pieces; a D-shaped sunken-looking complex (units 27–29) with hearth; bone and copper-alloy objects in unit 57; unit 12 with basin, bench, grinding installations and a shelf with varied objects; the street unit 13 with a ...

   Directed by Stuart Swiny[2]