Because the history of human life is about ways of inhabiting the world, geoarchaeology should play a central role in the archaeological program and cannot be reduced to a mere subspecialty of...

Aegina Kolonna, located in the center of the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Mediterranean (Greece), is one of the major archaeological sites of the Aegean Bronze Age with a continuous stratigraphic...

Οι αρχαιολογικές ανακαλύψεις της École Française d’Athènes στο όρος Πτώιον στη Βοιωτία φανέρωσαν την ύπαρξη δύο...

H πρόσφατη αποκατάσταση του γνωστού μαχαιριού με λαβή που καταλήγει σε δακτύλιο από τον Τάφο 15 της Ιαλυσού...

To άρθρο αυτό παρουσιάζει τους αρχαιολογικούς χώρους των Δενδρών και της Μιδέας, που βρίσκονται στην...

Φιλίες και κοινωνικά δίκτυα φρόντισαν να φτάσουν στις ΗΠΑ τρεις διάσημοι ερευνητές που σχετίζονται με τις...

Bronze tripods were particularly suitable as a means of formulating social status since they were one of the most prestigious types of movable items and because of their character as a exchange item...

Classical Cretan states are known to have had an unusual and distinctive character, contrasting markedly with that of their central Greek peers. Yet the histories of the latter have tended to...

The subject of this contribution is the fragment of an ivory rod with six cuneiform signs that was found in 2002. The rod came to light in a destruction layer dating to LH III B Final within a...

This paper deals with the Minoan inspired motifs in the textile production, mostly scarves and wall-hangings, of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, known as «Knossos scarves» and dated between 1906 and...

The article discusses the wall bracket found at Phaistos by Luigi Pernier. The object was dated to historical time and published by the excavator without proper description together with other...

Τhe interpretation of the Linear B term ki-ta-no, which is uniquely attested in the tablets belonging to the set Ga(5) at Knossos, has been much debated since the decipher­ment of Linear B and is...

In 1985, during stratigraphical soundings carried out by V. La Rosa in the north sec­tor of the Haghia Triada settlement, remains of a house destroyed by fire at the beginning of LM IA were brought...

This paper focuses on some rhyta from Phaistos, Ayia Triada and Kommos, which date mainly to the MM III period. After a brief review aimed at clarifying some major typo­logical and functional issues...

This article examines some assemblages that are almost certainly associated with the construction of the Second Palace, with a special focus on the one uncovered under room 18 of this Palace.

This paper aims at outlining A. Di Vita as a man, as a scholar, as an excavator and as direccor of the Italian Archaeological School in Athens, stressing his privileged relationship with the Island...

Cranial trepanation is one of the most ancient surgical operations. This kind of ʺoperationʺ has been reported in prehistoric Greece with several specific case studies. In this paper, a significant...

Archaeomagnetic research has enabled the determination of the secular variation record of the past geomagnetic field and has been used as a tool for absolute and relative dating. The archaeomagnetic...

An archaeomagnetic directional study of Late Minoan archaeological materials, (burnt mud brick, a clay/ash horizon and hearth material), was carried out at locations within the archaeological complex...

In this study, the qualitative and quantitative anatomy of six wood charcoals from an early Bronze Age settlement in the island Imbros (Gökçeada) were presented. Taxonomic identification on the...