Daniel J. PullenAmerican Journal of Archaeology 117.3 (2013): 437–445 (Online Forum - Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece)
This article examines the palatial and nonpalatial organization of craft production and exchange in the Late Bronze Age Argolid. The Late Bronze Age elites controlled markers of status and prestige, which were institutionalized in palatial control of the production and consumption of prestige goods.
Julie HrubyAmerican Journal of Archaeology 117.3 (2013): 423–427 (Online Forum - Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece)
Market exchange formed one aspect of a complex, mixed economy integrated into the political structures of Mycenaean Pylos. Palatial elites used a variety of strategies to obtain goods and services, and different individuals who represented a single craft often worked in different modes of production, as can be demonstrated for both the ceramic and the textile industries.
Jamie D. Aprile American Journal of Archaeology 117.3 (2013): 429–436 (Online Forum - Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece)
Regional authority in Mycenaean Greece should be reconstructed using excavation data from both palatial centers and hinterland communities. Economic information is the first line of inquiry into this subject because of the presence of the Linear B tablets and the tangible quality of material production in the archaeological record.
William A. Parkinson, Dimitri Nakassis & Michael L. GalatyAmerican Journal of Archaeology 117.3 (2013): 413–422 (Online Forum - Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece)
Past models of Mycenaean political economies have overemphasized the role of redistribution, thereby discouraging research into other modes of exchange. New perspectives have effectively questioned the hypothesis that palatial control over the economy was absolute, however.
Eva Panagiotakopulu, Thomas Higham, Anaya Sarpaki, Paul Buckland & Christos DoumasNaturwissenschaften 100:7 (July 2013): 683-689.
Attributing a season and a date to the volcanic eruption of Santorini in the Aegean has become possible by using preserved remains of the bean weevil, Bruchus rufipes, pests of pulses, from the storage jars of the West House, in the Bronze Age settlement at Akrotiri.
Nerantzis NerantzisMediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 12.2 (2012): 237-247.
The compositions of copper-base tools, weapons, ornaments and ceremonial metalwork from numerous Late Bronze Age Aegean sites reveal a pattern of specific alloy combinations for the fabrication of certain classes of objects.
St. P. Papamarinopoulos, P. Preka-Papadema, P. Antonopoulos, H. Mitropetrou, A.Tsironi & P. MitropetrosMediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 12.1 (2012): 117-128.
The annular solar eclipse, of 30 October 1207 B.C. (Julian Day-JD 1280869), calculated by NASA together with the analysis of the weather’s and the environment’s description (long nights, plants, animals and peoples’ habits) and the astronomical data (guiding constellations and Venus in the east horizon) mentioned by Homer in the epic, constitute an autumn return of Odysseus to Ithaca five days before the above characterized day.
Goran HenrikssonMediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 12.1 (2012): 63-76.
The Trojan War was very significant for the ancient Greeks and they dated historical events according to the number of years after the fall of Troy. However, there was already in antiquity no consensus as to the exact date of the war when compared with different epochs. Even after the modern discovery of the ancient city, there has been disagreement among different excavators as to which layer corresponds to the city mentioned in the
Iliad attributed to Homer.
M. Tsikritsis, E. Theodossiou, V.N. Manimanis, P. Mantarakis & D. TsikritsisMediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 13.1 (2013): 265-275.
A stone die of the Minoan period, discovered near Palaikastro in Crete, Greece, in 1899, was selected for this study as bearer of astronomical significance.
David S. ReeseMediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 13:1 (2013): 289-320.
Recent analysis of preserved fauna from the 1952-58 excavations at Lerna stored in Argos and Stockholm allows us to reexamine the fauna published in 1969 by the late Prof. Nils-Gustaf Gejvall as the first of the Lerna final reports.
This paper takes into consideration two fragmentary moulds from the LM IIIC context of the Casa a Ovest del Piazzale I at Phaistos. The identification of the matrix for a bronze winged-axe comparable with the well-known item from a mould of Mycenae gives the opportunity for having a deeper insight into the relations linking Crete to Italy in the field of metallurgical activities at the close of the Late Bronze Age.
Of the many studies dedicated to tablet HT 31 the one conducted by Duhoux has certainly solved the largest number of questions, with the exception of a precise identification of the types of vases represented. This paper tackles this issue with a structuralistic approach and starts from a comparison with the LM I formal repertoire which was actually used at Ayia Triada.
This study provides a complete and updated edition of the pottery recovered during Levi and Laviosa's excavation of the LM IB kiln at H. Triada and, on the basis of a reassessment of old and new data concerning pottery production in the LM I western Mesara
Francesco TomaselloCreta Antica 12 (2011): 131-198.
The aim of this paper is to deepen the investigation of the kiln published in 1975 by D. Levi and C. Laviosa, with commendable zeal and documentation. Construction details are now comparable with those of other kilns excavated in Late Minoan Crete.
