Oxbow says: In the early 8th century BC a Greek colony was established by the Parians on the island of Hvar in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of modern Croatia. This volume presents a synthesis of what is known of this Greek colony gleaned from archaeological, written, epigraphic and numismatic sources. Branko Kirigin provides a review of the remains of Pharos and of research carried out on the city, before turning to what can be determined of its social organisation and administration, its economy, coinage, pottery, its cults and burial rituals, and the life of its most famous hero Demetrius of Pharos and his battle with the Roman consul Aemilius Paulus in 219BC which led to the destruction of the city.

The third volume in The Adriatic Islands Project, The work utilises, essentially, the same research methodologies developed for survey on Hvar and Brae. The continuing reliance of project staff on complex computer technologies to store and analyse the large project databases also remains, and the impact of the increasing sophistication of these technologies for display of data can be seen in this publication. This book, covering prehistory to medieval times, is divided into two parts, reflecting the diverse nature of the areas under study.

The first volume from the Adriatic Islands project comprises the results from a thorough survey and mapping of the Dalmatian island of Hvar in Croatia. The area has long played an important role on trade routes between Italy and Illyria and Greece. There is a great deal of Neolithic archaeology, Bronze and Iron age burial monuments and much Greco-Roman material. The bulk of this book is a gazetter of around 800 sites, each of them having been visited by members of the team. The entries include plans, descriptions and references.