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The Kavousi Project (also known as the Kavousi Excavations) was a multidisciplinary program of archaeological investigations (active seasons of fieldwork: 1978–1984, 1987–1992) in the area of Kavousi, a historic village at the eastern end of the Gulf of Mirabello in East Crete, Greece.[1] The objective of the project was to restudy a number of archaeological sites originally investigated by the pioneering American archaeologist Harriet Boyd [Hawes] in the early years of the 20th century,[2] focusing on the Greek Dark Age sites of Kavousi Vronda and Kavousi Kastro, but also including tombs at nearby Aloni, Plaï tou Kastrou, and Skouriasmenos, all located in the northern foothills of the Thripti Mountains of eastern Crete.
The Kavousi Project was directed by Geraldine C. Gesell (University of Tennessee), Leslie Preston Day (College of Wooster; later, Wabash College), and William D.E. Coulson (University of Minnesota; later, American School of Classical Studies at Athens). The research and fieldwork were conducted with permission from the Greek Ministry of Culture, under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the 24th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of the Greek Archaeological Service. Major financial supporters of the Kavousi Project included the University of Tennessee, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Geographic Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the David A. Packard Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Joullian Foundation, Mr. Richard L. Sias and Mrs. Jeannette F. Sias, and many others.[3]
- ^ Gesell, Day, and Coulson 1983; Gesell, Day, and Coulson 1985; Day, Coulson, and Gesell 1986; Gesell, Day, and Coulson 1988; Gesell, Day, and Coulson 1995; Gesell and Day in Haggis 2005, pp. xvii–xix; Gesell and Day in Day, Klein and Turner 2009, pp. xxv–xxvii.
- ^ Boyd 1901
- ^ Day, Klein and Turner 2009, pp. xxix–xxxi.