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Early Helladic Laconia after the time of H. Waterhouse and R. Hope Simpson

Pharos XVIII.1 (2011-2012): 1-37.

The extensive survey conducted in the 1950s by H. Waterhouse and R. Hope Simpson in Laconia located a large number of sites of the Early Helladic period. Most important settlements seemed to be concentrated in the plains of Sparta and Helos and in the area of Neapolis and Elaphonisos on the south-west side of the Malea peninsula.

Who is who in the mycenaean zoo?

in P. Hr. Ilievski, V. Mitevski & R. Duev (eds), 2012. Proceedings of the international conference 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor Mihail D. Petrusevski (1911-1990) [Ziva Antika Monographs 10]: 295-303.

The Linear B tablets contain words and ideograms for a variety of animals. Some Mycenaean animal names are known directly (e.g., i-qo, o-no, po-ro, qo-o), other names are known indirectly, as part of compounds (a3-ki-, o-wi, su-).

La tablette linéaire B KN V(2) 280

in P. Hr. Ilievski, V. Mitevski & R. Duev (eds), 2012. Proceedings of the international conference 100th anniversary of the birth of Professor Mihail D. Petrusevski (1911-1990) [Ziva Antika Monographs 10]: 87-101.

La tablette KN V92) 280 provient de la Room of the Chariot Tablets du palais de Cnossos et a été écrite par un "scribe non identifié" 124 - voir ci-dessous le texte document et son fac-similé.

A prehistoric settlement in the western Thessalian plain: Magoula Theofani (in Greek)

Αρχαιολογικό Δελτίο 58-64 τόμος Α΄ Μελέτες (2003-2009) [2012]: 1-30.

Τhis is a presentation of a Neolithic settlement in the western Thessalian plain known as “Magoula Theofani”.The settlement has been known since the 1960’s from surface surveys, in which sherds of the Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age had been identified.

Η εξέλιξη των αιχμών βελών αποκρουσμένου λίθου κατά την Εποχή του Χαλκού με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στην Υστεροελλαδική περίοδο

Αρχαιολογικό Δελτίο 57 τόμος Α΄ Μελέτες (2002) [2010]: 1-52.

Η παρούσα μελέτη προσεγγίζει αφ’ ενός μεν μέσα από μία ευρύτερη τεχνολογική και γεωγραφική θεώρηση τις μορφολογικά συγγενείς αιχμές βελών της εποχής του Χαλκού, αφ’ ετέρου δε επικεντρώνεται στη μελέτη υλικού από θολωτούς τάφους της Μεσσηνίας.

Early Prehistoric Research on Amorgos and the Beginnings of Cycladic Archaeology

American Journal of Archaeology 117:2 (April 2013): 181-205.

Amorgos is widely known for its Early Cycladic antiquities, which now predominantly adorn private collections and numerous museums outside Greece. Some of the finest Cycladica associated with the island emerged before the first systematic excavations were conducted in 1894 by Christos Tsountas.

„Unter Wasser segeln“ oder: Warum Troia erobert wurde

Skyllis 11:2 (2011): 49-57.

The natural conditions that prevail in the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles have in later times made it difficult, though not impossible, for sailing vessels to pass these straits on their way to the Black Sea.

The Late Bronze Age Shipwreck off the islet of Modi (Poros)

Skyllis 11:2 (2011): 25-34.

The rocky islet of Modi is situated SE of Poros on a sea route very important for navigation in the region. On the north steep sloppy bottom of Modi, at a depth of 27-40 meters, the cargo of a Late Bronze Age shipwreck was discovered, during an underwater research project carried out by the Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology (HIMA), under the direction of the author.

Early seafaring in the Ionian Sea

Skyllis 11:2 (2011): 19-24.

This paper attempts to present the archaeological sites and cultural exchanges between the network of the Ionian Sea islands as stopping places of a long journey along the western coastline of Greece in the middle Mediterranean Sea through which people exchanged things, knowledge and experience.

Which Way Forward? On the Directionality of Minoan/Cycladic Ships

Skyllis 11:2 (2011): 8-18.

The Minoans are rightly noted for their seafaring abilities. Their ships turned the Mediterranean Sea for them into a highway over which they interacted with far-flung contemporaneous cultures. To date, not a single Minoan/Cycladic hull has been found, however.

Minoan shipsheds

Skyllis 11:2 (2011): 4-7.

Covered slipways or, shipsheds' were a diagnostic feature of military harbours in the classical world. A new dimension has been added to the subject with the discoveries at Kommos in southern Crete.

Ägina-Kolonna 2010

Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien 81 (2011): 47-72.

Work in 2010 at the ‘West Complex’ of Cape Kolonna was concerned with the East Street with a series of late Archaic occupation layers, the usage levels beneath these dating to the late Neolithic - Early Bronze Age period, and the concluding architectural recording of East Building 0-11