E.M. Wild, P. Steier, P. Fischer & F. Höflmayer Radiocarbon 55:2-3 (2013): 599-607.
Radiocarbon dating of plant remains is often difficult due to the complete dissolution of the samples in the alkaline step of the ABA pretreatment. At the VERA laboratory, this problem was encountered frequently when numerous Bronze and Early Iron Age samples from the eastern Mediterranean were dated in the course of the special research program SCIEM2000 and in other collaborations with archaeologists focused on that area and time period.
Yorgos Facorellis, Panagiotis Karkanas, Thomas Higham, Fiona Brock, Maria Ntinou & Nina Kyparissi-ApostolikaRadiocarbon 55:2-3 (2013): 1432-1442.
Theopetra Cave is a unique prehistoric site for Greece, as the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods are present here, bridging the Pleistocene with the Holocene. During the more than 20 yr of excavation campaigns, charcoal samples from hearths suitable for 14C dating were collected from all anthropogenic layers, including the Paleolithic ones.
Steven E. Falconer & Patricia L. FallJournal of Field Archaeology 38:2 (May 2013): 101-119.
We investigate intrasite patterns of artifacts and floral and faunal data to interpret household and community behavior at the Middle Cypriot (Bronze Age) village of Politiko-Troullia in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus.
Mercourios GeorgiadisJournal of Prehistoric Religion XXIII (2012): 7-24.
The evidence for the existence of a peak sanctuary at Leska in the western part of the island of Kythera is presented. In order to assess the correctness of this identification, the site is compared and contrasted with peak sanctuaries that have been identified on Kythera, at Ayios Yeoryios sto Vouno, and on Crete.
Sam CrooksJournal of Prehistoric Religion XXIII (2012): 25-44.
This study presents evidence for the cultic significance of aniconic stones in ancient Cyprus from the Ceramic Neolithic through Roman eras. Interpretive models of the Near East and Aegean, which frame such stones as territory or liminal markers, mnemonic devices and aniconic cult objects, are tested against the Cypriot evidence.
David Ian LightbodyJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 61-73.
Archaeologists studying Late Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus have produced diverse theories regarding the origins of the Cypriot Iron Age city kingdoms, but it has proved difficult to integrate Cyprus within larger models designed to evaluate relationships between communities of the East Mediterranean.
Irmgard Hein & Ragna Stidsing Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 44-60.
Cypriot Bichrome Wheel-made Ware is an important index for the study of interrelations in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World. The ware is a chronological marker for the beginning of the Late Cypriot Bronze Age and was the subject of a research project during the last decade within the Cyprus project of SCIEM 2000.
Joanna S. SmithJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 10-43.
The 228 contextualized seals at Enkomi allow for detailed views into how Egyptian seal types were used in the Late Bronze Age(ca. 1650–1050 BCE) in one settlement on Cyprus. Over time the emphasis shifted from Egyptian seal rings and uncarved scarabs and scaraboids in tombs to Egyptianizing designs on Cypriot cylinder and conoid stamp seals that recalled the carved details on the bottoms of scarabs.
A. Bernard KnappJournal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 1-9.
The socioeconomic and ideological transformations that characterize Late Bronze Age Cyprus have been linked to a major expansion in interconnections with the older cultures of ancient western Asia and Egypt.
James WhitleyCambridge Archaeological Journal 23:3 (October 2013): 395-416.
In recent years, material culture studies have come to embrace contemporary Melanesia and European prehistory, but not classical archaeology and art. Prehistory is still thought, in many quarters, to be intrinsically more ‘ethnographic’ than historical periods; in this discourse, the Greeks (by default) become proto-modern individuals, necessarily opposed to Melanesian ‘dividuals’.
John C. BarrettCambridge Archaeological Journal 23:1 (February 2013): 1-17.
Narratives of human evolution place considerable emphasis upon human cognitive development resulting from the evolution of brain architecture and witnessed by the production of ‘symbolic’ material culture. Recent work has modified the narrative to the extent that cognitive development is treated as the product of humanity's ability to download certain aspects of brain functionality, such as the storage of information, into external media.
M. Spataro, N. Meeks, A.S. Meek & A.J. ShaplandArchaeometry 55:5 (October 2013): 910-922.
We analysed a faience fragment from Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, to determine whether it belonged to the Town Mosaic, excavated at Knossos. Three Town Mosaic fragments from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford were also examined.
A. Bevan, J. Conolly, C. Hennig, A. Johnston, A. Quercia, l. Spencer & J. VroomArchaeometry 55:2 (April 2013): 312-328.
This paper considers how to make the most out of the rather imprecise chronological knowledge that we often have about the past. We focus here on the relative dating of artefacts during archaeological fieldwork, with particular emphasis on new ways to express and analyse chronological uncertainty.
Petra Vaiglova, Amy Bogaard, Matthew Collins, William Cavanagh, Christopher Mee, Josette Renard, Angela Lamb, Armelle Gardeisen & Rebecca FraserJournal of Archaeological Science 42 (February 2014): 201-215.
This paper presents the first study that combines the use of ancient crop and animal stable isotopes (carbon and nitrogen) and Zooarchaeology Mass Spectrometry species identification (ZooMS) for reconstructing early farming practices at Kouphovouno, a Middle–Late Neolithic village in southern Greece (c. 5950–4500 cal. BC).
G. Apostolopoulos, K. Pavlopoulos, J.-P. Goiran & E. FouacheJournal of Archaeological Science 42 (February 2014): 412-421.
According to historical documents, Piraeus was a rocky island consisting of the steep hill of Munichia, known as modern-day Kastella. It was connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land (“Halipedon”) that would flood with sea water most of the year and was used as a salt field whenever it dried up.
