UNC Asheville will host a talk on "Karphi: A City of Refuge in Dark Age Crete" by Leslie Preston Day, professor at Wabash College. The presentation will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in UNC Asheville's Whitman Room, Ramsey Library. The talk will focus on recent discoveries about the ancient city of Karphi in eastern Crete. The event is free and open to the public.

Day will discuss recent restudy of pottery and other artifacts from Karphi that have shed new light on the history of the town and its social, political and religious organizations. Recent discoveries help to reconstruct the history of Karphi, which once stood as one of the most important cities of the transition from the Late Bronze to Early Iron Ages in Greece.

Day has lead excavations as co-director and field director at Vronda Kavousi, Crete. She has served as the area supervisor at the excavations at Pella of the Decapolis in Jordan and was part of a mapping project at Mochlos, on Crete. She is currently working on a series of books about the Vronda Settlement, the Vronda Cemetery and the early excavations at Kavousi.

For more information, call Laurel Taylor, UNC Asheville adjunct professor of Classics, at
828/251-6290.