The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill
Authors: James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (BMC AB '76)
Source: Nemea Valley Archaeological Project , Volume III. The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill. Princeton, 2020.
Publication type: Final Publication of archaeological excavation
Abstract: A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel of Mycenae. Excavations undertaken there by the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology of Bryn Mawr College have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood at its southern end. This volume presents the results of these investigations with an unprecedented study of a small settlement’s economy and society in the Mycenaean period. Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates a wide variety of general and specialist studies, the authors demonstrate how agricultural production, craft activities, and ceremonial practices integrated the inhabitants of Tsoungiza into a regional exchange system within the Bronze Age world. The volume includes contributions by P. Acheson (BMC AB '94), S. E. Allen (BMC MA '97), K. M. Forste, P. Halstead, S. M. A. Hoffmann, A. Karabatsoli, K. Kaza-Papageorgiou, B. Lis, R. Mersereau (BMC PhD '91), H. Mommsen, J. B. Rutter (HC BA '67), T. Theodoropoulou, and J. E. Tomlinson.