The east Mediterranean Late Bronze Age glass trade within the context of the Panaztepe finds
Nazli Ḉinardali-Karaaslan
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31:2 (May 2012): 121-141.
The Late Bronze Age is a period during which intensive transactions occurred in the Mediterranean and Near East. The glass trade became a real industry, exhibiting the innovations of the period from...
The ‘Temple House’ at Lato reconsidered
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31:1 (February 2012): 59-82.
This paper reconsiders the ‘Temple House’, a building excavated in 1969–70 on the Temple terrace of the site of Lato in eastern Crete. While the building was dated to the Hellenistic (HL)...
Observatory validation of Neolithic tells (“Magoules”) in the Thessalian plain, central Greece, using hyperspectral spectroradiometric data
Athos Agapiou, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis, Dimitrios Alexakis & Apostolos Sarris
Journal of Archaeological Science 39:5 (May 2012): 1499-1512.
This paper presents the results obtained from field spectroradiometric campaigns over Neolithic tells (“magoules”) located at the Thessalian region in Greece. In each one of the four...
Modern and early-middle Holocene shells of the freshwater mollusc Unio, from Çatalhöyük in the Konya Basin, Turkey: preliminary palaeoclimatic implications from molluscan isotope data
Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Melanie J. Leng, David C. Aldridge, Carol Arrowsmith, Burçin A. Gümüş & Hilary J. Sloane
Journal of Archaeological Science 39:1 (January 2012): 76-83.
Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in the shells of the freshwater Unio mollusc yield information on the isotopic composition of the water in which the shell was formed, which in turn relates to...
Seals, Scripts, and Politics at Late Bronze Age Kourion
Joanna S. Smith
American Journal of Archaeology 116:1 (2012): 39-103.
Excavations at the Late Bronze Age settlement and cemetery of Episkopi-Bamboula in the Kouris River valley laid the foundation for a stratified study of both the earliest writing on Cyprus (i.e.,...
Bearing the Marks of Control? Reassessing Pot Marks in Late Bronze Age Anatolia
Claudia Glatz
American Journal of Archaeology 116:1 (2012): 5-38.
Simple marks on pottery are known in both the archaeological and ethnographic records of various societies, and numerous functions have been proposed for these so-called pot marks. Conventionally,...
The oldest maritime sanctuary? Dating the sanctuary at Keros and the Cycladic Early Bronze Age
Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Antiquity 86.331 (March 2012): 144-160.
The sanctuary on the island of Keros takes the form of deposits of broken marble vessels and figurines, probably brought severally for deposition from elsewhere in the Cyclades. These acts of...
Archaeology under Metaxas
Dimitra Kokkinidou & Marianna Nikolaidou
Metaxas Project - Inside Fascist Greece (1936-1941), 12 January 2012: online article (partly republished from: D. Kokkinidou & M. Nikolaidou, "On the stage and behind the scenes: Greek archaeology in times of dictatorship", in M.L. Galaty & C. Watkinson (eds), Archaeology under dictatorship, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2004: 155-190).
This online publication is part from an article first published in 2004. The article examines the interplay between archaeology and dictatorship in the context of the Greek experience.
Counting threads. Saffron in Aegean Bronze Age writing and society
Jo Day
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 30:4 (November 2011): 369-391.
Τhe ideogram for saffron has long been recognized on the Linear B tablets from Knossos. Close examination of this corpus allows a distinction in content to be made between the LM II–LM IIIA1...
Provenance determination of Mycenaean IIIC vessels from the 1934–1939 excavations at Tarsus-Gözlükule by Neutron Activation Analysis
H. Mommsen, P. Mountjoy & A. Özyar
Archaeometry 53:5 (October 2011): 900-915.
Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) has been carried out in order to determine the provenance of a selected set of 30 sherds of Mycenaean style excavated at Tarsus-Gözlükule.
The new Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2010. Excavations at Dromolaxia Vizatzia/Hala Sultan Tekke: Preliminary results
Peter M. Fischer
Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 4 (2011): 69-98.
Determination of the complete occupational sequence of the site, including investigation of pre-12th century levels which were thoroughly studied by P. Åstrӧm since the 1970s, is the main task of...
Reconciling Identities in Life and Death: The Social Child in the Early Helladic Peloponnese
David Michael Smith
Childhood in the Past: An International Journal 4.1 (Summer 2011): 46-62.
This paper utilises the fragmentary child mortuary record of the Early Helladic Peloponnese to approach the social identity of children during this period.
Child Burials in Mesolithic and Neolithic Southern Greece: A Synthesis
Mercourios Georgiadis
Childhood in the Past: An International Journal 4.1 (Summer 2011): 31-45.
The treatment of children during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in southern Greece can provide us with a rare insight of age differentiations, social practices and beliefs in these early periods. The...
Cypro-Minoan in Philistia?
Brent Davis
Kubaba 2 (2011): 40-74.
In this paper, claims that Cypro-Minoan inscriptions have been found in Philistia are discussed and evaluated. First, an overview of Cypro-Minoan is presented, including discussions of Masson’s...
Franchthi Cave revisited: the age of the Aurignacian in south-eastern Europe
K.Douka, C. Perlès, H. Valladas, M. Vanhaeren & R.E.M. Hedges
Antiquity 85.330 (December 2011): 1131-1150.
The Aurignacian, traditionally regarded as marking the beginnings of Sapiens in Europe, is notoriously hard to date, being almost out of reach of radiocarbon. Here the authors return to the...
Melian obsidian in NW Turkey: Evidence for early Neolithic trade
Catherine Perlès, Turan Takaoğlu & Bernard Gratuze
Journal of Field Archaeology 36.1 (March 2011): 42-49.
Archaeological investigations carried out at the Early Neolithic coastal site of Coşkuntepe in northwestern Turkey yielded an assemblage of 110 obsidian artifacts displaying the macroscopic...
A Cypriote Sherd from Kahun in Context
Carla Gallorini
In D. Aston, B. Bader, C. Gallorini, P. Nicholson & S. Buckingham (επιμ.), Under the Potter’s Tree. Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine, Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday (Leuven – Paris – Walpole: Ultgeverij Peeters, 2011): 397-415.
Amongst the “Aegean pottery” published by Petrie in Illahun, Kahun and Gurob, London 1891, plate I, is the upper part of a Cypriote jug in the White Painted III-IV Pendent Line Style Ware....
Late Bronze Age Pottery from the Site of Vratitsa, Eastern Bulgaria: Definition, Chronology and its Aegean affinities.
Rositsa Hristova
Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory, online άρθρο, 18 Μαρτίου 2011
The site is located along the route of the “Trakia” Highway and administratively belongs to the village of Vratitsa, municipality of Kameno. It is situated in the field called Aladinova Chesma...
A late Geometric architectural model with figure decoration from ancient Helike, Achaea
Anastasia Gadolou
The Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 247-273
Το πήλινο ομοίωμα που παρουσιάζεται στο άρθρο αυτό αναπαριστά τη στέγη ενός μικρού ναΐσκου. Αποκαλύφθηκε...
A Sanctuary of the Geometric period in ancient Helike, Achaea
Erophile Kolia
The Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 201-246
The article presents an apsidal temple excavated by the 6th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities at Nikoleika, in the chora of ancient Helike.
An unpublished stirrup jar from Athens and the 1871-2 private excavations in the outer Kerameikos
Yannis Galanakis
The Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 167-200
Το παρόν άρθρο παρουσιάζει έναν αδημοσίευτο ψευδόστομο αμφορέα από τον έξω Κεραμεικό της Αθήνας. Το...
Tracing the ancestry of the Minoan Hall system
Joseph W. Shaw
The Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 141-165
Μία από τις πιο ενδιαφέρουσες αρχιτεκτονικές διαμορφώσεις στην Μινωική εποχή είναι η λεγόμενη “Μινωική...
The finds from the prehistoric site of Ayios Nikolaos Mylon, Southern Euboea, Greece
Žarko Tankosić & Iro Mathioudaki
The Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 99-140
Στο παρόν άρθρο παρουσιάζουμε τα αδημοσίευτα ευρήματα από την επιφανειακή έρευνα στον Άγιο Νικόλαο Μύλων. Η...
Η κυρά της Καραμουρλάρ
Μάκης Μίχος
Ανάσκαμμα 5 (2011): 147-154.
Πέρασαν τριανταέξι χρόνια από τότε που ο Δημήτρης Θεοχάρης μας έστειλε στις εσχατιές του έρημου κάμπου της...
Storage, gathering and Lathyrism? at Dispilio
Evi Margaritis
Ανάσκαμμα 5 (2011): 113-123.
Η μελέτη των αρχαιοβοτανικών δεδομένων για την παρούσα μελέτη επικεντρώθηκε σε στρώματα που χρονολογούνται...
Η «οφθαλμαπάτη» της στρωματογραφίας: Παραδείγματα από τη μαγούλα Ίμβρου Πηγάδι και το Σπήλαιο Θεόπετρας
Νίνα Κυπαρίσση-Αποστολίκα
Ανάσκαμμα 5 (2011): 75-86.
Όταν λέμε στρωματογραφία και ετυμολογoύμε τη λέξη, μας έρχεται στο νου ένα κέικ με επάλληλα καθαρά και...
Στα ίχνη των τελευταίων κυνηγών και τροφοσυλλεκτών της Νοτιοανατολικής Μεσογείου
Νίκος Ευστρατίου & Δημήτρης Κυριακού
Ανάσκαμμα 5 (2011): 53-74.
Από τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1950, η ανασκαφική έρευνα του Στυλιανού Αλεξίου στη δυτική όχθη του αρχαίου...
Η ανασκαφή μιας ανασκαφής: Ο Νεολιθικός Κατσαμπάς μισόν αιώνα μετά την αποκάλυψή του
Νένα Γαλανίδου
Ανάσκαμμα 5 (2011): 33-52.
Από τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1950, η ανασκαφική έρευνα του Στυλιανού Αλεξίου στη δυτική όχθη του αρχαίου...
Ψήφος ημιτελής ή τι μας λέει ένα μικρό τέχνεργο από τον οικισμό της Χαλκοκρατίας στο Κουκονήσι της Λήμνου
Χρήστος Μπουλώτης
Ανάσκαμμα 5 (2011): 13-31.
Το κινητό εύρημα σε μια ανασκαφή είναι, πρώτα απ’ όλα, οι «μνήμες» που κουβαλάει. Και λέγοντας εδώ «μνήμες»...
La fonction des vases à étrier inscrits en linéaire B
Yves Duhoux
Kadmos 49 (2011): 47-92.
Il n’existe qu’environ 150 vases (entiers ou, le plus souvent, fragmentaires) à étrier inscrits en linéaire B, alors que l’on a un nombre incalculable d’exemples anépigraphes de ce type...