Clairy PalyvouJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7.3 (September 2015), 65-75
Skylines partake in the “public image,” as symbols of an urban collective. They are urban signatures that present an abbreviated image of the city’s identity. In the Minoan world skylines can be approached only indirectly: firstly, by inferring how buildings emerged in the vertical and secondly, through the depictions of architectural compounds in Minoan art.
Kalle SognnesAntiquity 89 (February 2015), 215-216
Johan Ling and Zofia Stos-Gale (Antiquity 2015) present results from a project comparing isotopes from Bronze Age artefacts with signatures from known Bronze Age mining localities.
Lefteris PlatonJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7.3 (September 2015), 76-89
Sacred prostitution remained for several years a taboo topic in the study of the ancient Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean. Despite the fact that some ancient writers refer to it, several scholars doubted its practices in the frame of the noble Greek civilization.
Lyvia MorganJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7.3 (September 2015), 49-64
Feasts were a vital part of life in the Ancient World. Those worthy of expression in images and texts were ideological and symbolic, celebrating royal power, marking the ritual calendar, creating alliances, and maintaining the status quo of society.
Fritz BlakolmerJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 7.3 (September 2015), 29-40
Although the hybrid creature known as the Minoan Genius was clearly derived from the Egyptian Ashaheru / Taweret, according to the iconographical evidence in the Aegean, its functions and meaning differ considerably.
Johan Ling and Zofia Stos-GaleAntiquity 89 (February 2015), 221-223
It is rare for authors to be able to read comments on their paper by leading colleagues and to have the chance to respond before its publication. We would like to thank the editor of Antiquity for providing this opportunity.
Johan Ling & Zofia Stos-GaleAntiquity 89 (February 2015), 191-209
Bronze Age trade networks across Europe and the Mediterranean are well documented; Baltic amber and bronze metalwork were particularly valued commodities.
L. Vance Watrous, D. Matthew Buell, John C. McEnroe, John G. Younger, Lee Ann Turner, Brian S. Kunkel, Kevin Glowacki, Scott Gallimore, Angus Smith, Panagiota A. Pantou, Anne Chapin, and Evi MargaritisHesperia 84.3, 2015, 397-465
This article presents previous research at Gournia, the overall goals of our project, a new plan of the settlement, and our 2010-2012 excavations in eight areas: the Pit House, the Northwest Area, the North Cemetery, North Trench, the Northeast Area, House Aa, several rooms in the palace, and House He.
Peter M. Fischer & Teresa BürgeOpuscula 7 (2014), 61-106
The results from a 1.3-hectare GPR survey in 2012 were confirmed during the 2013 excavation of a limited area (200 m2). Three phases of occupation were partly exposed. The most recent phase, Stratum 1, contained living and working facilities, e.g. for spinning, weaving and purple dyeing.
Arto Penttinen & Jenny WallenstenOpuscula 7 (2014), 150-152
The following section honours our colleague, teacher, and friend, Berit Wells. The contributions were originally to be included in a Festschrift, which we wished to present to Berit on her 67th birthday. Sadly, Berit lost her battle against cancer before we could finish the volume.
This article assembles examples of an unusual vessel found in domestic contexts of the Early Bronze Age around the Aegean and in che East-ern Mediterranean. Identified as a “barrel vessel” by the excavators of Troy, Lesbos (Thermi), Lemnos (Poliochni), and various sites in the Chalkidike, the shape finds its best parallels in containers identified as churns in the Chalcolithic Levant, and related vessels from the Eneolithic Balkans.
This paper sets out to propose an alternative model of economic management at settlements of Early Helladic I-II date, where evidence of socioeconomic hierarchies is not prominent in the archaeological material. It is suggested here that the remains of certain original structures within the boundaries of settlements were once granaries which served the whole community.
Chris Mee, Bill Cavanagh & Josette RenardAnnual of the British School at Athens 109 (2014), 65-95
The site of Kouphovouno, just south of Sparta, is one of the main Neolithic sites in Laconia. It was first settled in the Middle Neolithic period and developed into a large village with remains occupying some 4–5 hectares. A joint team from the British School at Athens and the Ecole française d'Athènes carried out excavations at the site in 2001–6.
Nicoletta Momigliano, Laura Phillips, Michela Spataro, Nigel Meeks & Andrew MeekAnnual of the British School at Athens 109 (2014), 97-110
This article presents the curatorial context of a newly discovered fragment of Minoan faience, now in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (BCMAG), and the technological study conducted on this piece at the British Museum. It also discusses the British Museum study of comparable fragments, now in the Ashmolean Museum, belonging to the Town Mosaic from Knossos, an important and unique find brought to light during Sir Arthur Evans's excavations of the ‘Palace of Minos’ at the beginning of the twentieth century.
