ARTICLES | 2026
Meaningful materials? Bone artefacts and symbolism in the Early Bronze Age Aegean
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36.1 (2017): 43-59
Early Bronze Age southern Aegean mortuary assemblages have yielded three distinctive classes of bone artefact. Comparison with contemporary unworked bone assemblages and contextually or formally related objects in other materials reveals complex cultural associations, the symbolic meaning of which is explored through heuristic use of ethnographic analogues.Variability of ceramic production and consumption on the Greek mainland during the middle stages of the Late Bronze Age: the waterpots from the Menelaion, Sparta
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36.3 (2017): 243-266
The study highlights survival of pottery traditions with roots in the Middle Helladic period well into the Late Bronze Age, a fact that has not received appropriate attention in the scholarly discourse. It captures the very last stage of their existence, as just a few decades later the production and consumption are entirely dominated by Mycenaean pottery.I will follow you into the dark: death and emotion in a Mycenaean royal funeral
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36.4 (2017): 395-412
In this paper, I introduce the various categories of evidence and draw on them to support an imaginative reconstruction of an event that happened, but which is not recorded in any historical sources – the death and burial of a great king of Mycenae.Early ceramics in Anatolia: implications for the production and use of the earliest pottery. The evidence from Boncuklu Höyük
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27.2 (May 2017): 351-369
Fragments of possible fired clay found at Boncuklu Höyük, central Turkey, appear to derive from rudimentary vessels, despite the later ninth- and early eighth-millennium cal. bc and thus ‘Aceramic’ dates for the site. This paper will examine the evidence for such fired clay vessels at Boncuklu and consider their implications as examples of some of the earliest pottery in Anatolia.Contrasting histories in Early Bronze Age Aegean: uniformity, regionalism and the resilience of societies in the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete
Cambridge Archaeological Society 27.3 (August 2017): 479-494
Late Early Bronze Age (EB IIB–III, 2500–2000 bc ) evidence from the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete present two coeval sequences of events with very different societal outcomes. By drawing on resilience theory and the model of adaptive cycles, this article explores when and why the paths of mainland Greece and Crete diverged around 2200 bc, leading to an eventually destabilizing change on the mainland and a more sustainable one on Crete.Opium or oil? Late Bronze Age Cypriot Base Ring juglets and international trade revisited
Antiquity 90.354 (2016): 1552-1561
The Base Ring juglets of Late Bronze Age Cyprus have long been associated with opium due to their hypothetical resemblance to inverted poppy heads. Analysis of organic residues on Base Ring juglets from Cyprus and Israel, however, showed no trace of opium; instead, the vessels had contained a variety of perfumed oils.Building the Labyrinth: Arthur Evans and the construction of Minoan civilization
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
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.Dating Knossos and the arrival of the earliest Neolithic in the southern Aegean
Antiquity 91.356 (2017): 304-321
The results from Crete and western Anatolia suggest that an earlier, small-scale Aceramic colonisation preceded the later Neolithic reoccupation of Knossos.Problems of Cypro-Minoan Petrography: The Case of Sign Shapes 08, 13 and 78
Kadmos 52.1 (2013): 111-134
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Ζάκρος
Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 44
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Ζώμινθος
Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 41-43
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Βαθύ Αστυπαλαίας
Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 39-40
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Ακρωτήρι Θήρας
Tο Έργον της εν Aθήναις Aρχαιολογικής Eταιρείας 58 (2011): 36-38
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