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Bridging the Gaps in Cultural Change Within the Early Bronze Age Aegean
American Journal of Archaeology 117.4 (October 2013): Online Forum.
In one of the arguments about the Early Cycladic (EC) III "gap" in material culture, Jeremy Rutter recognized the Anatolianizing Kastri/Lefkandi I assemblage to be of great importance for developments in ceramics on the Early Helladic mainland.Thinking About Change in Early Cycladic Island Societies from a Comparative Perspective
American Journal of Archaeology 117.4 (October 2013): Online Forum.
Thirty years on, "Rutter's gap" remains a challenge for Aegean prehistorians. With a precision commonly overlooked by his critics, Rutter originally set out to draw attention to a lacuna in our knowledge of material from stratified sites in the Cyclades, or of Cycladic material exported elsewhere, at the end of the third millennium B.C.E. and to a consequent hiatus in our ability to trace how island culture and behavior shifted from the Early to Middle Bronze Age.“Minding the Gap”: A Problem in Eastern Mediterranean Chronology, Then and Now
American Journal of Archaeology 117.4 (October 2013): Online Forum.
The articles collected in this Forum were presented in Jeremy Rutter's honor in a Gold Medal Colloquium held at the 114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (Seattle, 2013).Stories of sediments: Cultural formation processes at the neolithic tell at Paliambela Kolindrou
Ανάσκαμμα 6 (2013): 131-143.
The tell as a type of site is particularly characteristic of the eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and Balkans. In the most general terms tells are artificial mounds composed of the remains of past human settlements built up at a non uniform rate over long periods of time.Farmers and fishermen “by the fair-flowing lake of Boebe” (in Greek)
Ανάσκαμμα 6 (2013): 49-62.
Lake Karla (Boibeis), located at the southeastern end of the Thessalian plain, is often mentioned by ancient authors and poets, throughout the centuries, due to its constantly changing environmental conditions, resulting from long-term geological changes. In 1962 the lake was drained, leading to the unearthing of an impressive number of archaeological sites, dating from the Early Neolithic to the late Hellenistic Period.Paleodiet: Stable isotope analyses in archaeology (in Greek)
Ανάσκαμμα 6 (2013): 39-48.
In recent years, Greece has become one of the better-studied regions in terms of isotope analyses. Stable isotopes are analysed in order for an array of questions to be investigated, with diet, migration, environmental reconstructions and exploitation of resources being the most prominent.The historic content of prehistory (in Greek)
Ανάσκαμμα 6 (2013): 79-92.
The dominant view on Prehistory considers it to be a period of shortages and brutality. It also perceives prehistoric people as living in caves, wearing animal skins and not cutting their hair. As having their bats on their shoulders and, when hungry, devouring each other.Experimental archaeology: General directions, application to the study of the prehistoric tools (in Greek)
Aνάσκαμμα 6 (2013): 13-37.
Experimental archeology tests cause and effect relationships in order to study change in the state and distribution of various material remains before and after burial. It is also a means of comparison of analytical methods and results.Alcune osservazioni sulla formula di libagione minoica
Pasiphae. Rivista di filologia e antichità egee VI (2012): 207-227.
La cosiddetta formula di libagione minoica, nota anche come formula di Arkhanes, rappresenta la migliore possibilità oggi a disposizione degli studiosi per indagare i misteri della lingua cretese ; essa, contrariamente a quanto avviene per i testi incisi sulle tavolette d’argilla, non solo costituisce con ogni probabilità una frase completa e articolata sintatticamente, ma soprattutto si lega a una sfera ben precisa, quella sacraleWool-spinning, bronze-working and the peculiarities of Mycenaean ta-ra-si-ja
Pasiphae. Rivista di filologia e antichità egee VI (2012): 185-194.
From the introduction
It is by now well-established that the hypothesis that the Mycenaean term ta-ra-si-ja /tala(n)-sia/ indicates a production directly organized by the central administration for the supply of a certain quantity of raw materials weighed (wool and bronze) to be processed into finished products which would then be returned to the Palace. The term is attested in Pylos,