Elis 1969: The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project: British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at Kostourei

by Ourania Kouka and John Ellis Jones

In the 1960s a great new barrier dam was built across the Peneios Valley in Elis in the N.W. Peloponnese to create an artificial lake for irrigation purposes. In 1967 the Greek Archaeological Service organised a preliminary survey of the areas to be affected and also asked all the Foreign Archaeological Schools to assist and allocated specific sections to each. The British School at Athens sent a small team in late 1967 to survey part of the south-west...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784912301
• ISBN13: 9781784912307
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.6"