Jeffery R. Hughey, Peristera Paschou, Petros Drineas, Donald Mastropaolo, Dimitra M. Lotakis, Patrick A. Navas, Manolis Michalodimitrakis, John A. Stamatoyannopoulos & George StamatoyannopoulosNature Communications 4, 14 May 2013
The first advanced Bronze Age civilization of Europe was established by the Minoans about 5,000 years before present. Since Sir Arthur Evans exposed the Minoan civic centre of Knossos, archaeologists have speculated on the origin of the founders of the civilization.
Ilya B. Gubanov Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 40:2 (June 2012): 99-103.
Artifacts from royal burial graves Gamma and Omicron of grave circle B at Mycenae attest to cultural ties between the Eastern Mediterranean elite and that of the Scandinavian Early Bronze Age (mid- and late 2nd millennium BC).
Tells famously capture the historical sequences of the earliest farmers—but digging them is not easy. With a depth of strata of 17m at Dikili Tash, the earliest occupation was out of reach of a trench.
John Bintliffin Georg Kalaitzoglou & Gundula Lüdorf (eds), 2013. PETASOS, Festschrift für Hans Lohmann (Padeborn: Wilhelm Fink & Ferdinand Schöningh): 111-118.
Hans Lohmann has been an immense inspiration for everyone who wishes to reconstruct the ancient landscapes of Greece and Turkey, with his pioneering explorations of rural Attica and the country hinterland of ancient Miletus.
Συμπληρώνονται φέτος 20 χρόνια από τον θάνατο του Νικολάου Πλάτωνος (1909-1992). Θεώρησα σκόπιμο με την ευκαιρία αυτή, τιμώντας τη μνήμη του, να δημοσιεύσω μία παραλλαγή της ομιλίας που έκανα στο φιλολογικό μνημόσυνο που οργάνωσε παλαιότερα ο Δήμος Ηρακλείου, στην οποία αναφέρθηκα σε μία λιγότερο γνωστή πτυχή της προσφοράς του, αυτή του κλασικού αρχαιολόγου και επιγραφολόγου.
Για την ολοκλήρωση του στεγάστρου του χώρου της προϊστορικής πόλης στο Ακρωτήρι της Σαντορίνης, γίνεται λόγος στην Α΄Τακτική Συνέλευση του 2012 που δημοσιεύεται στο τεύχος τούτο, καθώς και στο Έργον 2011, 36-38 με ωραίες εικόνες. Λόγος έχει γίνει και κατά τα προηγούμενα έτη.
Die sog. minoischen Lustralbassins sind in der ägäischen Bronzezeit nahezu ausschließlich im minoischen Kreta bekannt. Einzig auf der Insel Thera, die bekanntermaßen stark minoisch geprägt war, wurde ein weiterer Raum dieser Art entdeckt. Im mykenischen Griechenland findet sich der Bautypus der Lustralbassins hingegen nirgendwo.
John Bennetin Fibiger Bang, P. & Scheidel, W. (eds), 2013. The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near east and Mediterranean, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 235-258.
There are two episodes of state formation in the prehistoric Aegean, one at the beginning, the other in the middle of the second millennium BCE. The first states are associated with the appearance of complex structures conventionally called "palaces" on the island of Crete shortly after 2000 BCE (the MM IB phase);
Jan Kindberg JacobsenActa Hyperborea 13 (2013): 1-24.
The present article analyses two aspects of the cultural and material interaction between the Greek and the indigenous populations in northern Calabria during the 8th century BC.
Christopher MeePharos XVIII.1 (2011-2012): 141-145.
We now know much more about Early Bronze Age Laconia as a result of the field projects reported in these papers. There have been excavations at a number of sites, notably around Sparta and at Anthochori by the Fifth Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, as well as at Geraki, Kouphovouno and Pavlopetri.
Joost H. CrouwelPharos XVIII.1 (2011-2012): 125-140.
A brief report is presented on the pottery from eight discrete deposits in the area of the newly discovered fortification wall (Wall 31) on the acropolis of Geraki.
Stuart MacVeagh ThornePharos XVIII.1 (2011-2012): 105-124.
In 2008 one week of tests below an eroded Early Helladic II floor surface on the acropolis of Geraki revealed the interior face and stone fill of a defensive wall antedating the defenses of the EH period.
Chrysanthi Gallou & Jon HendersonPharos XVIII.1 (2011-2012): 79-104.
This paper presents the preliminaty results of the ongoing research at the now submerged prehistoric town at Pavlopetri on the Malea peninsula in south-east Laconia.
William CavanaghPharos XVIII.1 (2011-2012): 53-78.
This paper offers an overview of chronological developments in Lakonia in the light of recent publications, with particular emphasis on finds fom the Laconia Survey, the Laconia Rural Sites Project and the Kouphovouno Excavations.
In comparison with other regions of the mainland, Early Helladic Laconia is not well known or understood. In this paper an attempt is made to clarify the situation in Laconia in the Early Helladic period, by asking some important questions, arising from research in other, better explored regions.
