To date, archaeobotanical records for Late Bronze Age Cyprus provide little insight into agricultural activity of the time, such as specific farming systems and cultivation practices. This paper presents the results of an archaeobotanical study for the site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos (LC IIC, c. 1230–1170 BCE): a short-lived settlement that existed towards the end of the Late Bronze Age during a time often referred to as the crisis years on account of increasing mobility of people, violence and aridity throughout the Eastern Mediterranean.
Diego Capra, Isabella Caricola, Giulio Lucarini, Giuseppina Mutri, Evi Margaritis, Michael J. Boyd, †Colin RenfrewJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports 74, 2026: 105946
Dhaskalio is a small and steep-sided islet at the western end of the island of Keros in the central Cyclades. Excavations carried out between 2006–2008 and 2016–2018 brought to light the remains of extensive architecture on Dhaskalio and a ritual area of significant importance in the Kavos area of Keros, both dated to the mid-third millennium BCE.
Within the dynamic exchange networks of the Mediterranean Late Bronze Age, copper ingots are central to reconstructing the scale, organization, and intensity of economic and cultural contact. Yet, whether Late Bronze Age copper ingots derived from a single copper source or were mixed among sources has remained largely unresolved, obscuring their provenance.
This paper presents part of the research conducted in the framework of the MCSA LiTechAe project exploring the percussive tools and techniques used for stone dressing in monumental architecture in the 2nd millennium BC Aegean world on the basis of experiments and use-wear analysis.
The aim of this preliminary pilot study is to develop methods for the observation and characterisation of Aegean Bronze Age stone arrowheads. This will allow us to reconstruct the techniques employed for their manufacture.
Agios Vasileios, a major Late Bronze Age site in Laconia known since the late 1960s, has gained renewed scholarly attention over the past decade following the discovery of Linear B tablets.
Anja B. Frank , Ioanna Moutafi, Serena Sabatini, Robert Frei, Sofia Voutsaki, Raphaël Orgeolet, Vassilis Lambrinoudakis, Lazaros Kolonas, Jörg Rambach, Michael Boyd, Evi Margaritis, Kristian Kristiansen & Karin M. FreiPLoS One 21(9) 2026: e0357576
The Mediterranean region saw significant socio-economic and cultural transformations during the Bronze Age, varying across regions and through time. Expanding exchange networks played an important role in these developments by connecting distant communities.
This article reconstructs the stratigraphy of the Mycenaean Fountain on the North Slope of the Athenian Acropolis, excavated in 1937 and 1938 under the direction of Oscar Broneer. Although Broneer published a detailed report in 1939, his publication was not exhaustive, and the significance of the Early Iron Age finds was overlooked.
This article examines a group of previously unpublished floor plaster fragments together with architectural and stratigraphic evidence from the Main Building of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. Analysis of the plaster shows that the fragments formed part of the floor of upper-story rooms, which fell during the building’s structural collapse.
An emerging understanding of Middle Helladic Gray Minyan pottery development in central Greece allows a reconsideration of relative synchronisms between the region and the Cyclades. Updated comparisons indicate that Ayia Irini period IV on Kea was resettled no earlier than the middle of Middle Helladic II in central Greece, not the beginning as previously presented.
Jeremy B. Rutter & Michael LindblomHesperia 91 (2022): 571-648
The circulation of the panel cup on the Greek mainland beginning in Middle Helladic III is explored from various perspectives. The shape flourished for less than a century, principally in the northeast Peloponnese, in both funerary and domestic contexts.
Sharon R. Stocker, Calla McNamee, Salvatore Vitale, Panayiotis Karkanas & Jack L. DavisHesperia 91 (2022): 211-250
The circumstances of the discovery, stratigraphy, and construction of the grave of the Griffin Warrior were described briefly in 2016 as an introduction to a detailed presentation of the four gold rings found inside it.
This article discusses the history of cooking dishes--namely, large, open and shallow, undecorated ceramic vessels--following their diachronic development from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (6th millennium to 8th century B.C.), and their synchronic distribution across the Aegean and the Balkans.
Alain BlancStudi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 10 (2024): 9-20
The Mycenaean neuter plural pe-ne-we-ta qualifies articles of clothing (pa-we-a /pharweha/), or it is used near the logogram TELA. There have been several proposals: /pnewent-/ ‘vaporosi’ (Gallavotti), /pneuwent/- ‘ariosi’ (Doria), /pen-went-/ or /penewent-/ (Chadwick : pen- from πίνος ‘natural grease in wool’), or even /sphēn-went-/ ‘featuring a weave with wedges’ (σφήν), but none of these explanations is suitable (cf. DMic. II, 99). We try to show that pe-ne-we-ta can conceal /phernewwenta/ ‘provided with /phernes-/’.
Ján Bobik, Tunç Kaner, Peter Pavúk & Christopher H. RooseveltStudi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici, Nuova Serie 10 (2024): 21-46
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of zoomorphic plastic decorations on pottery from second-millennium BCE western Anatolia. Despite early observations by Heinrich Schliemann at Troy, these decorations have not been systematically studied until now.
