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A Reappraisal of the dendrochronology and dating of Tille Höyük (1993)
Radiocarbon 51.2 (September 2009): 711-720.
The results of a tentative oak tree-ring chronology built from charcoal samples found in Late Bronze to early Iron Age contexts (late 2nd to early 1st millennium BC) at the site of Tille Höyük in southeast Turkey, and its placement in time, was published in 1993 (Summers 1993).Hearsay about the “Keros Hoard”
American Journal of Archaeology 114 (January 2010): 181-185.
The authors present new oral testimony on the illicit excavations at Dhaskalio Kavos, on KerosIdentifying the geochemical taphonomy of the osteological material from Katsambas rockshelter
Journal of Archaeological Science 37.1 (January 2010): 116-123.
We report analytical work undertaken in order to identify the geochemical taphonomy of the osteological collection (human and animal bones) recovered from a 1950s excavation at Katsambas, a small cavity in the marly limestone on the west bank of Kairatos River, Crete.The double-axe: A contextual approach to the understanding of a Cretan symbol in the Neopalatial period
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 29 (February 2010): 35-55.
The Double-Axe has always been considered as one of the most important religious symbols in Minoan Crete. This paper reassesses the significance of the Double-Axe and puts forward a new interpretation for it. It recognizes the great potential for change in symbolic meanings during the Bronze Age and seeks to understand the Double-Axe in as narrow a period as is realistically possible by filtering out evidence from other periods. Central to the argument is the principle that the meaning of symbols is contextually dependent.Agency matters: Seal-users in Pylian administration
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 29 (February 2010): 57-88.
This study aims to provide insights into the patterns discernible in the Pylian sealing practices with regard to the identity of the seal-owners involved. The focus is on reassessing the problem of the function of glyptic imagery and on testing the working hypothesis that differences in the subject matter of the seal devices used to produce the seal impressions may have reflected the hierarchical status of the Pylian seal-owners.Excavations at Politiko Kokkinorotsos. A Chalcolithic hunting station in Cyprus
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 75 (2009): 189-237.
Recent excavations at a small Chalcolithic site in central Cyprus show that it was occupied about 2880-2670 cal BC. Fallow deer form the major component of the substantial faunal sample: both these and other animals were hunted. The chipped stone, too, fits with a model of intensive meat exploitation.Private pantries and celebrated surplus: storing and sharing food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia
Antiquity 83, No. 321 (September 2009): 649–668.
In the Neolithic megasite at Çatalhöyük families lived side by side in conjoined dwellings, like a pueblo. It can be assumed that people were always in and out of each others’ houses – in this case via the roof. Social mechanisms were needed to make all this run smoothly, and in a tour-de-force of botanical, faunal and spatial analysis the authors show how it worked. Families stored their own produce of grain, fruit, nuts and condiments in special bins deep inside the house, but displayed the heads and horns of aurochs near the entrance. While the latter had a religious overtone they also remembered feasts, episodes of sharing that mitigated the provocations of a full larder.The early management of cattle (Bos taurus) in Neolithic central Anatolia
Antiquity 83, No. 321 (September 2009): 669–686.
The authors use metrical, demographic and body part analyses of animal bone assemblages in Anatolia to demonstrate how cattle were incorporated into early Neolithic subsistence economies. Sheep and goats were domesticated in the eighth millennium BC, while aurochs, wild cattle, were long hunted. The earliest domesticated cattle are not noted until the mid-seventh millennium BC, and derive from imported stock domesticated elsewhere. In Anatolia, meanwhile, the aurochs remains large and wild and retains its charisma as a hunted quarry and a stud animal.Floor sequences in Neolithic Makri, Greece: micromorphology reveals cycles of renovation
Antiquity 83, No. 322 (December 2009): 955–967
Dating and examination of plaster floor sequences by micromorphology at a tell site in Greece shows when they were made and how they were composed. While numerous informal floor surfaces using recycled rubbish were put in place, as and when, by the occupants, formal floors rich in plaster seem to have been re-laid at regular intervals in reflection of a communal decision – even if the actual floors followed a recipe determined by each household. The authors rightly champion the potential of the technique as a possible indicator of social change at the household and settlement level.For Gods or men? A reappraisal of the function of European Bronze Age shields
Antiquity 83, No. 322 (December 2009): 1052–1064.
Are the imposing, decorated copper-alloy shields of Bronze Age Europe symbolic objects or functioning weapons? The author undertakes new analysis and experiments to conclude that whether bronze, leather or wood, all shields had a range of purpose in which the ceremonial and homicidal could rarely be completely isolated.Helis and the adjacent region during the Mycenaean period (in Greek)
In Η. Αndreou & Ι. Αndreou-Psychogiou (eds), 2009. Ήλις, παρελθόν, παρόν και μέλλον. Πρακτικά εκδήλωσης προς τιμήν Ν. Γιαλούρη (Ήλις, 13 Αυγούστου 2006) (Pyrgos): 21-36.
The author examines the region of Helis (Peloponnese) during the Mycenaean period. Most of the article focuses on the Mycenaean cemetery at Agia Triada, where 50 chamber tombs have been found (40 at the site Agiannis and 10 at the site Spilies). Many colour photographs of the finds from the tombs are also included.Burial pithoi of a Geometric cemetery at the site of Trapeza in Aegium (in Greek)
Annuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene 2007 [2009]: 11-32.
Twelve funerary pithoi were excavated on the site of Trapeza, near Aegium, in Achaea. Pottery, bronze and iron jewellery as well as iron weapons were identified amongst the funerary gifts. The typological analysis of the grave offerings leads to the chronology of the pithoi from the latest years of the Protogeometric down to the Late Geometric period.