John L. Caskey led excavations on the island of Keos/Kea at the sites of Ayia Irini and Kephala from 1960-1970 under the auspices of both the University of Cincinnati and of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Investigation of the site and excavated material continued under the direction of Elizabeth M. Schofield until 1987.
Series (and subseries) in the Keos/Kea Excavation Records include: Administrative Records and Correspondence (Series I containing permits and grants; correspondence; material permission requests; director’s notebooks and guest notebooks; and excavation accounts), Excavation Records (Series II containing notebooks; finds records; illustrative and photographic records; unpublished reports/records; and other excavation records), Studies and Publications (Series III containing publication plans and assignments; manuscripts submitted for publication; specialist studies; other records related to studies and publications), Series Publications (Series IV containing correspondence regarding individual volumes, records related to individual volumes, manuscripts of individual volumes, and illustrative and photographic records for individual volumes), Other Records (Series V), and Artifactual Materials (Series VI containing samples).
