Bones of Crimea

Set on the mysterious and volatile Black Sea, Bones of Crimea reflects on duality in both time and culture as two stories intersect through a single event in the archaeological record. It is the 5th century BC and Khares, a weary and stubborn historian from Alexander the Great's expedition to Persia, tries to find solace by traveling to the edge of the known world to write about the mysterious native Taurians. Twenty-five centuries later, archaeologists Phillip and his wife, Olga, return to an excavation at the now ruined Greek colony of Chersonesos. The sites tactical location in the past persists to the present day, as it is just across a small inlet from the secretive city of Sevastopol, home of the Russian and Ukrainian Black Sea fleets. Separated by more then 2500 years, two explorers unwittingly intersect as a mysterious murder causes war to erupt between two great nations, but then surprisingly leads to the prevention of another by its discovery. Which leaves only one question; just who is responsible?

Author: Phillip Allan Mendenhall
Publisher: Mendenhall Publishing
Published: 12/03/2014
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780692345108

About the Author
Phillip Mendenhall is a professional archaeologist working in the eastern Mediterranean and the northeast United States for over ten years. His major fields of study include cross-cultural contact periods in both the North American Colonial Period and the 5th Century ancient Greek colonization of the Black Sea region. He has published several technical reports on sites throughout the northeastern US, Florida, the Bahamas, Albania, Russia and the Ukraine as well as presented on the cross-cultural use of English pottery among Native American tribes and Greek wares among the nomadic tribes of the lower Russian steppes. Phillip received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Arlington and his Master of Arts from the European University of St. Petersburg, Russia. During his time abroad Phillip participated in a number of anthropological and archaeological research programs in Kazan, Tatarstan, Tallinn, Estonia and in the Crimea (Ukraine), Russia. Phillip has also been invited to speak both in Russia and the US concerning the state of current archaeological collaborations concerning the later of these regions.

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