Using evidence from the Athenian Agora the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women's lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played: as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual, craftspeople, producers and consumers.
The excavation at Vronda Kavousi reveals two distinct cemeteries in East Crete, featuring tholos tombs from the Subminoan to Protogeometric periods and enclosure graves with cremation burials from the Late Geometric to Late Orientalizing periods. The volume includes a detailed examination of individual graves, covering architecture, human and faunal remains, pottery, and burial customs. Additionally, it analyzes the cremation process and provides insights into the society of the burial population, with appendices on pottery capacities and metallurgical studies of iron objects.