More than fifteen years ago, W.D.E. Coulson published a paper titled The Greek Dark Ages. A review of the evidence and suggestions for future research (Athens 1990). There, he posed a series of questions related to some of the major research problems regarding the Greek "Dark Ages" which he deemed, in a wider sense, as the period spanning roughly 1125-700 B.C.

H παρούσα έκδοση, πλούσια εικονογραφημένη με φωτογραφικό και σχεδιαστικό υλικό, παρουσιάζει εκατόν ογδόντα έξι αντιπροσωπευτικά αντικείμενα από το ανασκαφικό έργο στο Σπήλαιο Αλεπότρυπα του Διρού Μάνης. Ο τόμος περιλαμβάνει αναλυτική εισαγωγή, όπου προβάλλεται μια...

People often ask me, "Why monkeys?" Then they ask, "Were there monkeys in the Mediterranean?" In answer to the first question, my interest in monkeys began in 1984, when my mother and I decided to convert our guesthouse into a primate sanctuary for baboons and macaques.

'Materiality and Social Practice' investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects.

Η σειρά των πρακτικών του Αρχαιολογικού 'Εργου στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη έφθασε αισίως στον εικοστό δεύτερο τόμο της, με έναν επιπλέον εικοστό τρίτο τόμο που εκδόθηκε εμβόλιμα ως επετειακός με αφορμή την εικοσαετία της συνάντησης, αποτελώντας έναν τόμο συνθετικών...

The Thesprotia Expedition was scheduled originally in 2003 to last for five years. With additional funding from the Academy of Finland, field work was continued for another two years, thus covering a total of seven years. The last field season and archive study season was conducted in 2010 and the focus of the project is now directed towards studying the remaining categories of finds and publishing the results of the project.

Το ανασκαφικό έργο που επιτέλεσαν οι Εφορείες Αρχαιοτήτων του ΥΠΠΟΤ τα τελευταία χρόνια είναι τώρα στο διαδίκτυο. Δημοσιευμένο συστηματικά μέχρι σήμερα μόνο από την έκδοση “Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον”, το έργο των αρχαιολόγων του ΥΠΠΟ παρέμενε μέχρι σήμερα – εκτός από...

Exotica in archaeology are usually identified as any foreign as opposed to indigenous materials and products. The presence of exotica can map movements of people and help recognise exchange networks by linking human societies with sometimes distant places.

Aegina has long been recognised as a major production centre of a variety of widely exported ceramic containers not only in the relatively recent past but also in Classical antiquity and especially during the Middle and Late Bronze Age.

Ο Άδωνις Κύρου στις αρχαιολογικές περιπλανήσεις και αναζητήσεις του επεσήμανε την ύπαρξη άφθονων οστράκων και άλλων αρχαίων γύρω από την εκκλησία του Αγίου Γεωργίου στη θέση «στο Βουνό» στα Κύθηρα. Το ανακοίνωσε στον Γιάννη Σακελλαράκη ο οποίος έκρινε ότι ο τόπος άξιζε...

The book publishes the proceedings of two workshops held in Catania, Italy in 11 and 28 November 2008. The papers focus on new digital developments of Minoan archaeology. Papers are written in Italian and English.

Die Ägäis erlebte in der Bronzezeit eine rasante kulturelle Entwicklung, bei der das maritime Element eine entschei­dende Rolle spielte. Zuerst waren es die Kykladen-Bewohner und später die Minoer, die seetüchtige Boote und Schiffe entwickelt haben, mit denen sie die wichtigsten maritimen Wege beherrschten.

This is the third and pivotal one of six volumes on the tell settlement excavated to some 1% in 1994-1996. The 18 layers of the upper part of the tell, which was ca. 200 x 100 x 30 m large and originally situated at the sea and on the river Olynthius, reach from the transition between the Early to Middle Bronze Age [cal. B.C. 2060] to the Protogeometric Phase [early 1st mill. B.C.].

This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium on the archaeology of houses and households in ancient Crete held in Ierapetra in May 2005. The name of the conference—and of the present volume—was inspired by the “Great Code” of Gortyn, where stega (literally, “roof”) is used to refer to the “house” both as a building and as an important element of a citizen’s “household.” Indeed, understanding the relationship between “house” as physical structure and...

Τhe Mycenaean cemetery of Mitopolis was discovered by N. Kyparissis in 1927 at the lower banks of the Mitopolianiko mountain, known also as Kompovouni. The cemetery is located at the mid-space between two settlements and most probably closer to the small settlement of Komi, which with that of Mitopolis, which is bigger, composes the homonym village, under the Municipality of Olenia.

How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct.

While "corridor houses" such as the House of the Tiles at Lerna have provoked widespread discussion about the origins of social stratification in Greece, few settlements of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3100 to 2000 B.C.) have been thoroughly excavated.

Excavations carried out at the Late Minoan III settlement and cemetery at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded domestic artifacts, human remains, grave goods, and ecofactual material from 31 tombs and 11 houses. These objects are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated. Radiocarbon dates for the site are also presented.

This book presents the ceramic vessels from the Late Minoan (LM) II-III settlement at Mochlos and its cemetery at Limenaria, which lies opposite the settlement a short distance to the south.

The Bronze Age of the Maltese archipelago has long been overlooked by archaeologists whose attention has mostly been focused on the Late Neolithic temples. This book attempts to understand the islands’ Bronze Age society in the course of the second millennium BC by exploring the history of Borġ in-Nadur in south-east Malta.

Ever since their first discovery, more than a century ago, the Minoan Palaces have dominated scholarship on the Cretan Bronze Age. Opinion long held that their first appearance, seemingly at the beginning of the Middle Bronze Age, marked a pivotal transformation point, during which the simple, egalitarian societies of the Early Bronze Age were transformed into something significantly more complex, hierarchical and civilised.

From 1957 to 1961 the British School at Athens undertook an extensive programme of stratigraphical excavations at Knossos under Sinclair Hood, then Director of the School. This report publishes in detail the results of investigations into Early Minoan levels, which shed much new light on the era before the "Old Palace" was established.

Dynamics of Neolithisation in Europe examines the development of early agriculture in Neolithic Europe, drawing on the work of the late Professor Andrew Sherratt. His untimely death coincided with an important period of research that moved beyond searching for singular causal mechanisms behind the ‘neolithisation’ of Europe in favour of developing a better understanding of the complex interrelationships of cultural, ecological, economic and social factors.

The fourth volume of the journal Pasiphae is divided in two parts. The first part presents the results of the international conference “Riflessioni sulla cronologia egea alla luce delle recenti scoperte di Santorini”, that took place in Milan on 27-28 April 2009.

The book is a premature publication of Elizabeth Schofield, who died in 2005. It presents the Western Sector of the Ayia Irini site on Keos (Cyclades). Two features of the Late Bronze Age Western Sector are of particular importance for understanding the disposition of the settlement of Keos and the way it was reorganised in Periods VI (= LH I) and VII (= LH II).

The Eastern Mediterranean has been a field of cultural interaction since early prehistoric times (11th mill. BC). Due to the need for the acquisition of raw materials, ceramic technologies and metalwork, interaction became more intensive in the second half of the third millennium BC.

Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have played seminal roles in our understanding of Minoan culture and the reconstruction of Bronze Age society. For several geographical areas and chronological periods of Cretan history, tombs are the most abundant source of data.

Most of us first encounter Festschriften when in graduate school. In the seminar at Bryn Mawr they were all grouped together on several shelves. There I became accustomed to expect, upon opening one, to see a formal photograph of a mature to ageing scholar in a formal suit or dress. Nowadays we generally have dispensed with these formalities, in part because of our changing use of the camera and perception of what the image should convey.

Material Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean explores the social identity of prehistoric and historic Mediterranean peoples through the combined lenses of materiality, migration, colonial encounters, hybridisation and connectivity or insularity.

Η Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία έχει ως κύριο έργο της την έρευνα και δημοσίευση των μνημείων της αρχαιότητος από τα απώτερα προϊστορικά χρόνια έως σήμερα. Το έργο της των 174 ετών που πέρασαν από την ίδρυσή της είναι το αποτέλεσμα της μελέτης και των προσπαθειών πολλών ανθρώπων,...