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ARTICLES | 2026

Building the Labyrinth: Arthur Evans and the construction of Minoan civilization

Ilse Schoep American Journal of Archaeology 122.1 (January 2018): 5-32

This study provides a detailed exploration of the genesis of concepts such as the Minoan palace (or palace-sanctuary), the priest-king, the mother goddess, and the essentially European (non-“Oriental”) character of the Minoans. By situating these concepts within Evans’ narrative project, I try to demonstrate that these are not objective interpretations that flow obviously from the data but rather began life as preconceptions formed by Evans as part of his Eurocentric agenda, well before the start of his excavations at Knossos.

Interactions and -isations in the Aegean and beyond

Anthony Harding Antiquity 91.355 (2017): 250-253

The question of ‘-isations’, such as ‘Romanisation’, has been a concern of archaeologists for many years; here it is ‘-isations’ of the prehistoric Aegean world that are the focus of attention.

Ζάκρος

Vasileios Petrakos (ed.) Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 44

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Ζώμινθος

Vasileios Petrakos (ed.) Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 41-43

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Βαθύ Αστυπαλαίας

Vasileios Petrakos (ed.) Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 39-40

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Ακρωτήρι Θήρας

Vasileios Petrakos (ed.) Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 36-38

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Mycenaeans in Bavaria? Amber and gold from the Bronze Age site of Bernstorf

Antony Harding & Helen Hughes-Brock Antiquity 91.359 (2017): 1382-1385

In August 1998 the German archaeological world was stunned when two amateur archaeologists found decorated gold-sheet ornaments on a hill in Bavaria north of Munich, near a farm named Bernstorf, in the commune of Kranzberg. A Bronze Age fortified enclosure was known there, local amateurs having excavated it earlier in the 1990s; later, permission was granted for gravel extraction, trees were cleared and it was in this disturbed area that the gold appeared.

Στρόφιλας Άνδρου

Vasileios Petrakos (ed.) Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 34-36

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Working for a feast: textual evidence for state-organized work feasts in Mycenaean Greece

Jörg Weilhartner American Journal of Archaeology 121.2 (April 2017): 219-236

Communal feasting has provoked much interest among scholars of Aegean prehistory. Discussions of the archaeological, archaeozoological, and textual data of the Mycenaean Palatial period have provided important insights into the role of this ritual practice as part of a sociopolitical strategy of the Mycenaean elite.

Καστρί Σύρου

Vasileios Petrakos (ed.) Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 32-33

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Ντικιλί Τάς

Vasileios Petrakos (ed.) Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 31-32

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Communication networks, interactions, and social negotiation in Prepalatial south-central Crete

Sylviane Dédérix American Journal of Archaeology 121.1 (January 2017): 5-37

The results of the GIS analyses emphasize that circular tombs were as a rule constructed near optimal paths. Nevertheless, the spatial pattern testifies to synchronic and diachronic variations, which, examined in the light of the distribution of non-Cretan grave goods, support the conclusion of previous research that different social strategies underlay the appearance and adoption of this burial type throughout the study area.