Pyla-Koutsopetria survey volume is a free download, hyperlinked to the finds data behind it

The linked digital edition of Pyla-Koutsopetria I, the 2014 report on an intensive field survey of the coast east of Larnaca, is free to download through its DOI, 10.17613/M6PK9M, on Knowledge Commons (formerly Humanities Commons). Its co-author William Caraher pointed readers back to it in a blog post on 21 October, after a colleague found it hard to track down.

Caraher, R. Scott Moore and David K. Pettegrew wrote the book for the American Schools of Oriental Research, as volume 21 of its Archaeological Reports (ISBN 978-0-89757-069-5). Its 100 ha around Koutsopetria, some 10 km from Kition, run from an Iron Age sanctuary to a Venetian-Ottoman gun battery, with a Classical settlement, a Hellenistic fort and a Late Roman town between them, all beside a natural harbour on Larnaca Bay that has since filled in.

The 2017 edition is the whole book as one PDF, its text linked to the data the project gathered between 2003 and 2011 and published on Open Context: survey units, single artefacts or batches of them, the pottery types of the team's "chronotype" system (each pairing a fabric or form with a period) and the periods built on it. The authors call it a provisional edition, and the PDF is issued with all rights reserved.

The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project added small trial excavations from 2008. Caraher writes that the next volume, which builds the published excavation dataset into the book, will be submitted next month.