Caroline Jeffra Annual of the British School at Athens 108 (2013): 31-49.
The manner in which Minoan potters first employed the pottery wheel has become a matter of some debate. A growing body of work has taken a sceptical approach to the transition from hand-building to wheel-throwing techniques in a number of contexts, finding that the idea of a technological transition of this nature is not supported by the ceramic evidence.
Γεώργιος-Παναγιώτης Γεωργακόπουλος in Promponas I. & Psarras, E.S. (eds), Πρακτικά του Δ’ Πανελληνίου Συνεδρίου με θέμα: «Η Νάξος δια μέσου των αιώνων», Κωμιακή 4-7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008, Athens 2013, 145-153.
Στο φάσμα των μορφών ζωής τα ερπετά κατέχουν τη δική τους θέση. Τα χαρακτηριστικά τους, όπως προέκυψαν από τη διαδικασία της εξέλιξης, τα κάνουν να υπολείπονται αρκετά σε φυσικά όπλα από άλλα χερσαία ζώα. Αυτό σημαίνει μικρή δυνατότητα αντίστασης σε εχθρούς, αλλά η ανάγκη της επιβίωσης είχε σαν αποτέλεσμα άλλα χαρίσματα και δυνάμεις ως αντιστάθμισμα, όπως είναι οι διανοητικές, στοιχείο κοινό με τον άνθρωπο.
Stephen O'Brienin S. O’Brien & D. Boatright (eds), 2013. Warfare and Society in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Papers arising from a colloquium held at the University of Liverpool, 13th June 2008 [BAR International Series 2583], Oxford, 25-42.
Warfare has been of concern to Aegean prehistorians since the birth of the discipline, yet few studies have attempted to place warfare in its full social context. For decades the societies of the region have been described as 'chiefdoms' or 'states' in accordance with neoevolutionary typologies.
Photeini J.P. McGeorge in H. Olivier (ed.) 2013. Le mort dans la ville. Pratiques, contextes et impacts des inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie, du début du Bronze à l’époque romaine, Istanbul 14-15 Novembre 2011 [2èmes Rencontres d’Archéologie de l’IFEA], Beyoglu/Istanbul, 1-19.
This paper reviews the cultural practice of intramural burials for infants in Greece, making reference to parallel practices in Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt. This age-old and widespread custom began with the earliest settled communities in the Near East and continued through the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Tristan Carter, Daniel Contreras, Sean Doyle, Danica D. Mihailović, Theodora Moutsiou & Nikolaos SkarpelisAntiquity 88:341 (2014), Project Gallery.
This article introduces new work at Stélida on the north-west coast of Naxos (Cycladic Islands, Greece), a source of chert that we demonstrate to have been used extensively in the Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods.
E.N. Johnston, R.S.J. Sparks, J.C. Phillips & S. CareyJournal of the Geological Society 171:4 (2014): 583-590.
The Late Bronze Age ‘Minoan’ eruption of Santorini, Greece occurred from within an existing caldera. Low-temperature pyroclastic flow emplacement on shallow slopes outside the caldera can only be consistent with the caldera being filled with eruption products that are not preserved.
Stella PilavakiTime and Mind, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2014): 71-87.
This paper adopts an innovative integrated approach to explore the chronology of a rock art tradition in Northern Greece. It relationally analyses different strands of evidence, which include iconography, style, the data sets derived from the structural and phenomenological investigation of the source material, and literature research.
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.
