Bryan FeuerAmerican Journal of Archaeology 115.4 (2011): 507-536.
Ethnic or cultural designations of past societies have often been employed uncritically and even casually. This general situation applies specifically to Mycenaean civilization. This article therefore considers a set of interrelated questions: What or who was a Mycenaean? How did the people termed “Mycenaeans” come into existence? What did it mean to be Mycenaean?
Joshua D. Englehardt & Donna M. NagleAmerican Journal of Archaeology 115.3 (2011): 329-353.
This article examines evidence for external influences on developing Mycenaean architecture, specifically at Pylos, during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Previous investigation suggests that emerging mainland elites eclectically appropriated foreign material cultural forms, styles, and techniques into established local traditions, most likely for use in localized prestige competition.
David Ben-Shlomo, Eleni Nodarou & Jeremy B. RutterAmerican Journal of Archaeology 115.3 (2011): 355-382.
This article examines the issue of the distribution of transport stirrup jars found in the Late Bronze Age Levant. These vessels, representing long-range commodity exchange, are presumed to be largely of Cretan origin according to both their appearance and previous archaeometric analyses.
P.A. MountjoyAmerican Journal of Archaeology 115.3 (2011): 483-488.
Reexamination of a well-known pictorial sherd from Ashkelon demonstrates that it is almost a century older than originally thought; it is in fact a 13th-century import from Mycenaean Greece rather than a local 12th-century Philistine product. The type of vessel to which the sherd belongs is discussed and a possible date is offered.
Sturt W. Manning, Carole McCartney, Bernd Kromer & Sarah T. StewartAntiquity 84 (September 2010): 693-706.
Intensive survey and initial excavations have succeeded in pushing back the Neolithic human occupation of Cyprus to the earlier ninth millennium cal BC.
Carl Knappett, Ray Rivers & Tim EvansAntiquity 85 (September 2011): 1008-1023.
We seek in this paper to provide a novel perspective on the possible causes for the demise of Cretan Bronze Age palatial society c. 1500 BC using a mathematical model developed from a previous study (Knappett et al. 2008).
Nanno MarinatosJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 1.1 (January 2009): 22-28.
Sir Arthur Evans believed that Minoan religion was highly indebted to Egyptian thought. He saw that the two cultures shared a solar theology expressed via similar iconographical schemes, such as the heraldic arrangement of lions
Jacke PhillipsJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 1.2 (April 2009): 9-25.
Though the fashion for amethyst in Egypt and the Near East had, by the mid-eighteenth century bc, dried up along with the Wadi el-Hudi mine, the stone’s popularity persisted in the Aegean well into the twelfth century.
Shelley Wachsmann Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 2.3 (August 2010): 31-41.
The tomb of Ahhotep (I) contained two metal ship models—one gold, the other silver—and a four-wheeled carriage. The models are anomalous in time and material. While the gold model represents a typical papyri form wood- planked Nile vessel, the silver model finds its closest parallels
Philip P. BetancourtJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3.2 (May 2011): 1-5.
The Minoan ossuary at Hagios Charalambos is located in the upland plain of Lasithi in Central Crete. This article discusses eight items with Egyptian connections discovered in the excavations of the site in 2002 and 2003.
Eric H. Cline & Steven M. StannishJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3.2 (May 2011): 6-16.
Amenhotep III’s “Aegean List,” found on a statue base at his mortuary temple at Kom el- Hetan nearly fifty years ago, is critical for the study of Egypto- Aegean relations during the Late Bronze Age.
Ray PorterJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3.3 (August 2011): 39-52.
Falcons were a part of everyday life in the Aegean but also appear in Minoan-Mycenaean art in cult capacity as attending a goddess, being the possible ba bird of a deceased person, and in symbolic ornaments of falcon shape with distinct falcon attributes of sharp talons, hooked beaks, and neck curls.
Ray PorterJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3.3 (August 2011): 27-38.
The falcon is the most frequently represented bird in Egyptian art. The discovery that falcons were depicted more often than realized in Aegean art, during the author’s studies of Aegean faunal iconography, prompted this article which delves into their natural history as a way to understand the falcon gods of Egypt as well as Egyptian and Aegean falcon depiction
Cynthia S. ColburnJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3.3 (August 2011): 1-13.
This study analyzes the evidence for the origin of gold found in secure prepalatial contexts in Crete. As there are no natural gold sources on Crete, extra-island interaction was required to procure this raw material.
