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Source: British School at Athens Studies , 2007, Vol. 14, KNOSSOS POTTERY HANDBOOK:
NEOLITHIC and BRONZE AGE (MINOAN) (2007), p. xv
Published by: British School at Athens
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Acknowledgements
A great many friends and colleagues have helped, over
the years and in many different ways, with the research,
writing up and completion of this multi-authored
volume. Some have given access to material from their
own excavations or under their care in museums,
archives and libraries. Others have helped through their
scholarly advice or have kindly provided drawings and
photographs. Others still have helped in more subtle and
indirect ways. While the editor has endeavoured to name
all of them, she can only apologise in advance for any
involuntary exclusion: to paraphrase Rose Macaulay's
acknowledgements in her Pleasure of Ruins, these
omissions will vex the omitter, but not, one hopes, the
omitted. Their names are listed alphabetically, without
apportioning specific reasons for my gratitude, not
because their good deeds have been forgotten but merely
for the sake of brevity: Lucia Alberti, Stelios Alexiou,
Kaiti Archondaki, Robin Barber, Paolo Belli, Phil
Betancourt, Gerald Cadogan, Filippo Carinci, Hector
Catling, Kostas Christakis, Nicolas Coldstream,
Conservation Directorate of the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture, Peter Day, Oliver Dickinson, Nota
Dimopoulou, Christos Doumas, European Commission
(GEOPRO TMR Research Network and Marie Curie
Research Fellowship), John D. Evans, Helen Fields,
Lesley Fitton, Eva Grammatikaki, Sue Grice, Erik and
Birgitta Hallager, Herakleion Ephoria, Sinclair Hood,
INSTAP, Alan Johnston, Amalia Kakissis, Nektarios
Karadimas, Carl Knappett, Knossos Donated Fund,
Christina Kolb, Olga Krzyszkowska, Evangelia
Kyriatzi, Alexandros Lachanas, Vincenzo La Rosa,
Roger Lonsdale, Eleanor Loughlin, Colin Macdonald,
Sturt Manning, Katia Manteli, Penelope Mountjoy,
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Irene
Nikolakopoulou, Sandra Pepelasis, Lefteris Platon, the
late Mervyn R. Popham, Giorgos Rethemiotakis, Jerry
Rutter, Yannis and Efi Sakellarakis, Sue Sherratt, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(SSHRC), Simona Todaro, University of Bristol (Arts
Faculty Research Fund), University of Western Ontario
(Arts Faculty Research Fund), Lucia Vagnetti, Aleydis
Van de Moortel, Michael Vickers, Peter Warren,
Malcolm H. Wiener and Penny Wilson.
Besides gratitude to all the people and institutions
mentioned above, the editor wishes to express her
special thanks to an anonymous referee, Sinclair Hood,
Olga Krzyszkowska, Carl Knappett and Sue Grice. She
also wishes to record her regret for Peter Day's late
defection from this enterprise: he was entrusted with a
chapter on Knossian fabrics, manufacturing techniques
and workshop(s) locations, synthesising the extensive
research he has been conducting over two decades at
Knossos. Unfortunately, more pressing commitments
prevented him from fulfilling this task, but both the
editor and individual authors are indebted (and
extremely grateful) to him for the advice and
information he has provided on these topics; readers
should refer to his already published and forthcoming
results, to complement the chapters in this volume. In
addition, the editor and Peter Tomkins together would
like to thank in a very special way Katia Manteli and
David E. Wilson, not only for their intellectual input,
but also for being such good-natured, generous and
supportive colleagues in many other ways.
Peter Tomkins also wishes to add these more
personal acknowledgements: the work upon which his
chapter is based began life as a doctoral research project
on the earlier Neolithic (EN I-EN II) ceramics from
Knossos, supervised by Dr P. M. Day and funded by
grants from NERC and the GEOPRO TMR Research
Network (European Commission contract no.
ERBFMRX-CT980165). This work was subsequently
extended into the later Neolithic, thanks to a European
Commission Marie Curie Research Fellowship
(contract no. HPMF-CT-2001-01385), and a grant
from the Knossos Donated Fund. In addition, Tomkins
gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Professor
John D. Evans (who freely gave advice, permission
to sample and publish, and information in the form
of original archive materials from all deposits,
published and unpublished, from his excavations at
Knossos of 1957-60 and 1969-70). He also extends
his thanks to the Conservation Directorate of the
Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
David E. Wilson wishes to thank in particular the Arts
Faculty Research Fund of the University of Western
Ontario and the SSHRC.
Sandy MacGillivray would like to give very special
thanks to Colin Macdonald and Carl Knappett for
sharing their wisdom and early versions of their
Knossos publications, and for their recent views on the
shifting sands of Cretan Protopalatial chronology.
He is also grateful to this volume's 'editrix' for
her unwavering confidence and good humour throughout
the long and complex process of piecing this
handbook together.
Eleni Hatzaki worked on her chapters while serving
as Knossos Curator and Assistant Director of the
British School at Athens.
The editor and contributors are grateful to all their
Greek colleagues in the Herakleion Ephoria, and, above
all, to the British School at Athens for permission to
carry out much of the research necessary to produce
this volume and for financial support.
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