TY - BOOK AU - Rutter,Jeremy B. AU - Wiencke,Martha Heath AU - Banks,Elizabeth AU - Attas,Michael ED - American School of Classical Studies at Athens, TI - The pottery of Lerna IV T2 - Lerna, a preclassical site in the Argolid SN - 0876612265 AV - GN778.22.G8 R87 1995 U1 - 938.8 PY - 1995/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - American School of Classical Studies at Athens KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Greece KW - Lerni KW - Pottery, Prehistoric KW - Antiquities KW - fast KW - Lerni (Greece) KW - Argolis Peninsula (Greece) KW - Argolis Peninsula N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxxv) and indexes; Also available online N2 - "The author presents the Early Helladic III pottery from Lerna in all its aspects, cataloguing, describing, and classifying over 1,400 vessels. The classification systems are based on detailed analyses of vessel shapes and ornamentation, supported by shape and pattern charts and numerous tables and illustrations. The concluding chapter compares the Lernaean pottery sequences to contemporary developments in central and southern Greece and examines the lineage of Early Helladic III pottery, which differs so profoundly from the pottery of the preceding period. Physico-chemical analyses of ceramic material are presented in an appendix"--Publisher's description ER -