This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of
the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (1982-1984) and
excavations (1987-1992) at the mountain sites located above the modern
village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. These sites, Vronda and the Kastro,
shed light on the Early Iron Age, the transitional period in Cretan
history known popularly as the Dark Ages, thereby elucidating the way of
life of the people who lived in the area of Kavousi during that period
and how their culture changed over time. Kavousi IIA is devoted to the
excavation of material from the Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Vronda,
particulary the houses on the summit of the Vronda ridge (Buildings A-B,
C-D, J-K, and Q), along with earlier (Building P) and later (Building R)
structures around them.