Power and Place in the Prehistoric Aegean and Beyond: Studies in Honor of James C. Wright

Edited by Susan E. Allen, Robert Schon & R. Angus K. Smith

City: Pensylvania

Year: 2025

Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press

Series: Prehistory Monographs 75

Description: Hardback, 264 pp, 95 figures, 6 tables

This volume celebrates the contributions and impact of our mentor, colleague, and friend, James C. Wright, on the field of Aegean Bronze archaeology in recognition of his retirement from Bryn Mawr College. The title and thematic orientation reflect his scholarly attention to power inequalities in the past, particularly as manifested through social access to architectural spaces and landscapes. The title acknowledges that Jim’s interests and contributions extend beyond the domain of Aegean Prehistory, not only in terms of chronology and geography, but also in terms of his methodological approaches that have wider application. In addition to Jim’s colleagues and collaborators, more than half of the contributions to the volume are by his students who collectively are but one of many signs of his profound and lasting impact not only on our scholarship, but on the discipline of archaeology itself.

Contents

Biographical Note for James C. Wright

Bibliography of James C. Wright

Introduction
Susan E. Allen, Robert Schon & R. Angus K. Smith

Part I, Structuring Power:

1. Deceptive Permanence: Architecture, Agency, and Sociopolitical Transformations in Mycenaean Greece [3-18]
Joseph Maran

2. Corridors of Power? Rethinking the Early Bronze Age Corridor House [19-24]
Daniel J. Pullen

3. Politics of Power at Mycenae: Modifying the Facade of the Treasury of Atreus [25-34]
Nicholas G. Blackwell

4. Visualizing the Past: 3D Models of Bronze Age Malthi in Messenia [35-42]
Michael Lindblom & Rebecca Worsham

5. Approaches to Studying Vernacular Architecture in the Prehistoric Aegean [43-50]
Nancy L. Klein & Kevin T. Glowacki

6. City and Town as Process: Complexity and Self-Organization in Modern Athens and Ancient Gournia [51-58]
John C. McEnroe

7. Constructing Power in Late Bronze Age IIA Tarsus-Gözlükule [59-66]
Steven Karacic

Part II, Landscapes of Power:

8. Regionalism in Review [69-72]
Mary K. Dabney

9. Late Bronze Age Aegean Seaports in Nafplion [73-84]
Malcolm H. Wiener

10. Claiming Territory: Kotroni, Kleonai, and the Southern Border of the Corinthia [85-90]
Angela Ziskowski

11. Messenia in LH IIIA: What’s Going On? [91-98]
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine

12. Keeping up with the Klytaimnestras: Interpreting Variation in Mortuary Elements among the Early Mycenaean Elite [99-108]
Kim Shelton

13. Turning Military Conquest into Fabulous Wealth: The Drainage of the Kopais Basin and the Consolidation of Palatial Power in Central Greece [109-116]
Aleydis Van de Moortel

14. Cultivating Power: A Political Ecology of Mycenaean Agriculture at Tsoungiza [117-128]
Susan E. Allen

15. Power and Place in Early Farming Landscapes of the Aegean and Beyond [129-136]
Amy Bogaard

16. Koiranos and *Koirētēr? = *Korrētēr? Among Power Titles in Linear B and Homer [137-144]
Thomas G. Palaima

17. Seeing Like a Pylian State [145-150]
Dimitri Nakassis

18. Archaeological Research in Nemea during the 1970s [151-160]
Effie F. Athanassopoulos & Kim Shelton

19. Power and Place of Metals in the Aegean-Anatolian Interactions of the Second Millennium b.c.e [161-172]
Emre Kuruçayırlı

20. Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Explorations in the Northern Black Sea Region [173-180]
Valeriya Kozlovskaya

Part III, The Power of Things:

21. Some Implications of the Ceramic Imitation of Metal Rivets during the Shaft Grave Era [181-194]
Jeremy B. Rutter

22. Memory as a Political Strategy at Kakovatos [195-200]
Robert Schon

23. Mycenaean Mirrors in Life and Death [201-206]
Mireille M. Lee

24. Spineless Kylikes [207-2016]
Patrick M. Thomas

25. Empty Cups and Empty Bowls: An Early Neopalatial Feasting Deposit from Gournia [217-224]
R. Angus K. Smith

26. Two Pertinent Pieces of Black-Figure Pottery at Bryn Mawr College [225-234]
Robert F. Sutton

27. Postscript: Looking Back, Moving Forward [235-242]
Nicolaus D. Wright