Andrew M.T. Creekmore III & Kevin D. Fisher (επιμέλεια)New York2014
This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism. Culturally and chronologically diverse case studies provide a basis to examine recent theoretical and methodological shifts in the archaeology of ancient cities.
Inscribed Minoan stone vessels are ritual gifts that index their dedicants’ intention that both their gift and their name should survive permanently at the place of dedication. These vessels contained offerings, yet the vessels themselves were also offerings, serving as permanent records of a ritual act. These rituals were most likely communal, incorporating group feasting and drinking.
The archaeological remains of Pre- and Protopalatial (Early Minoan I to Middle Minoan IIB) Crete include a large number of tombs and cemeteries dating to the third and second millennium B.C.E. These periods constitute a distinct cycle in terms of mortuary customs that was clearly defined by two significant attributes: the use of similar types of tombs and the deposition of significant amounts of material, objects that must be considered socially valuable.
Alberto Bernabé & Eugenio R. LujanLouvain-la-Neuve, Walpole2014
Since the decipherment of the Linear Β script by Michael Ventris in 1952, many books and papers have contributed to a better understanding of the Mycenaean texts and their cultural context. F. Aura Jorro has been able to critically review and systematize the richness and variety of the scholarship devoted to the interpretation of Mycenaean in his outstanding Diccionario micénico.
Η τοπογραφία του ιερού στον Αγ. Γεώργιο στο Βουνό, οι συνθήκες οι οποίες επικράτησαν στον χώρο μετά την επίσημη εγκατάλειψη της μινωικής αποικίας και ιδιαίτερα η συνεχόμενη χρήση του χώρου, ακόμη και μετά τη Βυζαντινή εποχή, συνετέλεσαν αποφασιστικά στη σημερινή εικόνα στρωματογραφικής ασυνέχειας και ανομοιογένειας.
Η παρούσα έκδοση, προϊόν πολύπλευρης συνεργασίας με πολιτιστικούς και κοινωνικούς φορείς της Τρίπολης, της Αρκαδίας και της Πελοποννήσου, αποτελεί το επιστέγασμα μιας προσπάθειας που άρχισε το έτος 2012, για να προβάλει μια πλευρά της έρευνας που μέχρι τότε δεν είχε κινήσει το ενδιαφέρον των Αρχαιολόγων και του Κοινού
Thanasis I. Papadopoulos & Litsa Kontorli-PapadopoulouUppsala2014
Since 1893 excavations by six different archaeologists at Vravron on the east coast of Attica have uncovered 37 Mycenaean tombs. The excavations, carried out by Stais (1893), Theochares and Papadimitriou (1955–1956), Verdelis (1965–1966), Themelis (1972–1973) and Kakavoyanni (1984), were not fully published and not all were well documented.
This study outlines the state of our present knowledge concerning the Mycenaean settlements in Messenia and examines the evidence for reconstructing the political geography of the “Kingdom” of Pylos. The progress of archaeological exploration in Messenia is reviewed in relation to the Mycenaean (Late Helladic [LH]) period.
Giulia Dionisio, Anna Margherita Jasink & Judith Weingarten Rome2014
This book is about a single Minoan seal shape, the cushion seal - a rectangular stone with biconvex faces -- so called because its profile resembles a cushion. This shape is specific to Minoan culture.
The close relationship between photography and archaeology is widely acknowledged. Since its invention, photography has been an indispensable documentation tool for archaeology, while the development of digital technology has facilitated the growing needs of an archaeological excavation in recording and archiving.
Dimitris Nakassis, Joann Gulizio & Sarah A. James (επιμέλεια)Philadelphia/Pennsylvania2014
The title of this volume, ke-ra-me-ja, is a woman's name that appears only once in the extant Mycenaean documentation, on Knossos Ap 639, a catalog of named women. We chose it because it means "potter" (Κεράμεια, from Greek κέραμος, "potter's clay") and combines two major strands of Cynthia Shelmerdine's many scholarly pursuits
Το παρόν βιβλίο αποτελεί βελτιωμένη δημοσίευση της διδακτορικής διατριβής του συγγραφέα, η οποία υποστηρίχθηκε το χειμώνα του 2011/2012 στη Φιλοσοφική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου του Tübingen.
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen & Jan Driessen (επιμέλεια)Louvain-la-Neuve2014
From 2010 to 2012, a seminar series entitled La naissance des cités crétoises was organised by UCL, with the support of the National Research Foundation (FNRS), the Hubert Curien Partnership Tournesol (PHC Tournesol), the Centre for the Study of Ancient Worlds (CEMA), and the Institute for Civilisations, Arts and Literature (INCAL).
Despite being explored as early as 1877, just one year after Schliemann’s discovery of Circle A at Mycenae, Mycenaean Attica has never been the subject of a general overview. Attention has only been devoted to single outstanding discoveries, such as the monumental tombs and cemeteries of Spata, Menidi, and Perati, or the citadels and settlements of the Acropolis at Athens, Eleusis, and Kiapha Thiti.
Mycenaean architecture is a topic widely investigated by archaeologists, from typological and/or technological and/or artistic perspectives and, more recently, from the socio-economic point of view.