Simon Jusseret & Manuel SintubinSeismological Research Letters 84:1 (2013): 94-100.
In the history of earthquake archeology in the Mediterranean region, the names of Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) and Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) have become intimately related to the formative stages of the discipline through their association with pioneering theories regarding the effects of earthquakes on ancient societies.
Φροντίδα για τα λείψανα του αρχαίου παρελθόντος μας υπήρξε από τη στιγμή που ιδρύθηκε το ελληνικός κράτος και Κυβερνήτης του ανέλαβε, το 1828, ο Ιωάννης, Α. Καποδίστριας (1776-1831). Έως τότε, από της κατάκτησης της Ελλάδας από τους Ρωμαίους, οι αρχαιότητες ήταν αντικείμενο αρπαγής από ηγεμόνες, ευγενείς τυχοδιώκτες, συλλέκτες, περιηγητές, με σκοπό να κοσμήσουν πόλεις, ανάκτορα και αρχοντικά.
Ο πρώτος κατάλογος των ανασκαφών της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας δημοσιεύθηκε το 1938 με τη συμπλήρωση της πρώτης εκατονταετίας της. Ο κατάλογος είχε συνταχθεί από τους τότε συνεργάτες της Εταιρείας Παναγιώτη Στριγόπουλο, λογιστή (+1933), Αντωνία Πανταζοπούλου, βοηθού του Γραφείου και κατόπιν λογίστριας της Εταιρείας, Αρτεμισία Γιαννουλάτου, φιλόλογο, και Βαρβάρα Φιλιππάκη, την κατόπιν Έφορο των Αρχαιοτήτων. Τον κατάλογο αυτόν τροποποιημένο και επηυξημένο, περιέλαβα στην Ιστορία της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας.
Malgorzata Kaczanowska & Janusz K. KozlowskiEurasian Prehistory 8:1-2 (2011): 67-87.
The paper deals with lithic artefacts from aceramic levels excavated by J. Evans at Knossos (layer X) and offers an alternative interpretation to that proposed by J. Conolly (2008).
Ivan Gatsov & Petranka NedelchevaEurasian Prehistory 8:1-2 (2011): 89-95.
This paper describes the main features of the lithic technology, collected in the settlements in the territory of South Marmara and Aegean region of West Anatolia during the 7-6 millennia B.C.
David Frankel & Jennifer M. WebbAmerican Journal of Archaeology 117.1 (January 2013): 59-81.
The homogeneous material culture that is characteristic of the earliest phase of the Cypriot Bronze Age (the Philia phase) broke down ca. 2300–2250 B.C.E. This change was prompted by the collapse of the eastern Mediterranean systems of interaction that provided the framework for the distribution of copper from Cyprus and in turn underpinned internal social and economic networks.
Erika Weiberg & Martin Finné American Journal of Archaeology 117.1 (January 2013): 1-31.
The centuries surrounding 2200 B.C.E. (the year commonly used to mark the transition between the second and third phases of the Early Bronze Age) were transformative times in the Aegean. At some locations, development continued and accelerated; in many places, however, several societal characteristics and supraregional traits seem to have been abandoned.
The archaeological record supports the general proposition that the simplest form of architecture, the round building type, variously persisted throughout the Aegean prehistory.
The Neolithisation process is one of the major issues under debate in Aegean archaeology, since the description of the basal layers of Thessalian tell-settlements some fifty years ago. The pottery, figurines or stamps seemed to be of Anatolian origin, and were presumably brought to the region by colonists.
Jorrit KelderAncient West & East 11 (2012): 11-18.
This paper evaluates the evidence for horseback riding in Mycenaean Greece. This paper argues that horseback riding, which is widely held to be an Iron Age development (of especially the 9th and 8th centuries BC), was practised by members of the aristocracies throughout the eastern Mediterranean as early as the 13th century BC, and that the first cavalry can be identified around the same time in Mycenaean Greece and other regions in the eastern Mediterranean.
Black on red painted pottery is one of the most characteristic ceramic groups in northern Greece dated to an advanced stage of the Late Neolithic period, roughly between 4800/4700-3900/3800 BC. It belongs to a wider trend which characterizes the late Neolithic in all of southeastern Europe on the basis of the extensive production of decorated ceramics.
Gavdos, a small island off SW Crete, happened to share in the past the name Gozo with its well-known Maltese counterpart, as we know from texts and maps of the Venetian period. Both islands, moreover, complete in epic identity, by laying a claim – together with many other isles – to having been Calypso’s legendary/Homeric universe.
Extensive residential and workshop remains of the Prehistoric time have been discovered in two sites so far, at the Kontopigado area, which is located at the north-eastern end of the municipality of Alimos in Attica. The building remains, dated Early Helladic (EH) and Late Helladic (LH) period, were excavated during rescue excavations conducted by the Archaeological Service on three plots of the block 71A in the Vouliagmeni Avenue and remain visible, preserved within modern buildings.
Οι σχέσεις της Κρήτης με τις Κυκλάδες απασχόλησαν πολύ πρώιμα τους ερευνητές. Πολύ νωρίς μάλιστα, η αφετηρία των σχέσεων αυτών τοποθετήθηκε στα πρώτα στάδια εξέλιξης των δύο πολιτισμών, μετά την ανακάλυψη οψιανού στα Νεολιθικά στρώματα της Κνωσού.
Maxime Brami & Heyd VolkerPraehistorische Zeitschrift 86:2 (October 2011): 165-206.
Recent discoveries in Western Anatolia have shed new light on the origins of Europe's first farmers. Fifty years ago, James Mellaart suggested that Early Neolithic communities in Greece and the Balkans shared a common ancestry in Western Anatolia at the site of Hacılar.
