²We gratefully acknowledge the participation of Professor Cherry in the formative stages of this research project and appreciate his many contributions to the formation of its research design.

³Site numbers 007 and 008 have been respectively reserved for descriptions of the settlement within the walls of ancient Apollonia and of its ancient cemeteries.

⁴Neritan Ceka (14/6/98) informed us that while stationed in the archaeological unit at Fier he had examined this church before its destruction. At that time, he remembers that a Doric capital was built into its walls and that the architrave block was lying near the church.

⁵This section of the report is the work of Charles Watkinson.

⁶This section of the report is the work of Michael Galaty.

⁷The ideas in this section of our report are synthesized from the transcript of a conversation with Dr. Zangger (30/5/98) at Apollonia.

⁸This section of our report is the work of Sharon R. Stocker, who directed the processing of finds.

⁹Information in this section was provided by John Wallrodt, who organized computer facilities for theproject.

¹⁰The DEM was prepared by Christopher Dore of Archaeological Mapping Specialists, Lincoln, Nebraska.

¹¹In the field the project used MapInfo as its Geographical Information System. 1:25,000 scale maps, prepared for the Albanian army in 1983, were enlarged to 1:10,000 and used as base maps for fieldwalking.

¹²This section of the report is based on results of ceramic and lithic analysis by Skender Muç aj and and Muzafer Korkuti.

¹³Compare M. Korkuti and Z. Andrea, "Stacioni i Neolitit të Mesë m në Cakran të Fierit," Iliria 3 (1974) 80, table 2, no. 6; M. Gjata, "Gjetje Neolitike të Rastit nga Rrethi i Fierit," Iliria 1991, table 1, no. 3.