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ARTICLES | 2026

The archaeological evidence of the Late Bronze Age and Protogeometric occupation under the Roman Villa Dionysus, Knossos, Crete, and an overview of the Protogeometric data of Greece

Alexandra Livarda Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 189-209.

Archaeobotanical material was collected from the Bronze Age fill and the Protogeometric phases underneath the Roman Villa Dionysus, Knossos, Crete. The Bronze Age assemblage was poor, representing only accidental intrusions to a tight fill of sherds and stones.

Mycenae revisited. Part 4: Assessing the new data

O.T.P.K. Dickinson, Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, Argyro Nafplioti & A.J.N.W. Prag Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 161-188.

This is the fourth and final part of the series inspired by the rediscovery in 2003 of two skeletons excavated in 1877 in Shaft Grave VI in Circle A at Mycenae by Panayiotis Stamatakis.

New light on the Labyrinth Fresco from the Palace at Knossos

Maria C. Shaw Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 143-159.

Considered here is the ‘Labyrinth Fresco’ (or ‘Maze Fresco’), fragments of which were found by Sir Arthur Evans in the Minoan palace at Knossos. Interestingly, the pattern was rendered through engraving, with the exclusively red colour used applied within the grooves.

Martial Minoans? War as social process, practice and event in Bronze Age Crete

Barry P.C. Molloy Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 87-141.

Together with politics, economics and religion, war is one of the fundamental factors that can shape a society and group identities. In the prehistoric world, the sources for the study of war are disparate and their interpretation can be inconsistent and problematic.

Surviving crisis: Insights from new excavations at Karphi, 2008

Saro Wallace (with contributions by Dimitra Mylona) Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 1-85.

Seventy years after its first investigation, Karphi (Karfi) on Crete was the subject of a new pilot excavation in 2008. The main aim was to provide the first up-to-date detailed contextual records for the site across a representative area, thus filling in interpretative gaps left by the original extensive excavation.

The Brown bear in Greece: A brief review of bones and images in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages

Eftychia Yannouli in J.-P. Brugal, A. Gardeisen, A. Zucker (eds) 2011. Prédateurs dans tous leurs états. Évolution, Biodiversité, Interactions, Mythes, Symboles. XXXIe rencontres internationales d’archéologie et d’histoire d’Antibes, Antibes:Éditions APDCA, 269-284.

The brown bear is, together with the wolf, at the heart of many of the earliest known cults and rituals. This old and persistent connection produced a solid and familiar symbolism, which, irrespective of cultural or historical parameters, reproduces and highlights the archetypical properties of this animal: motherhood, fertility, protection of the young, healing power.

Main Characteristics and Development of Graphite Ornamentation during the Late Chalcolithic in Thrace

Viktoria Petrova Studia Praehistorica 14 (2011): 311-332.

The study of graphite ornamentation as one of the characteristic features of the material culture in the Balkans during the Copper Age has two major aspects. One con­cerns the technology of production and the distribution of graphite as a raw material which is relatively rarely discussed in the archaeological literature.

The Origins of an Old Myth: Sir Arthur Evans, Claude Schaeffer and the Seismic Destruction of Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Civilizations

Simon Jusseret & Manuel Sintubin Seismological 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.

Περίγραμμα της ιστορίας της Ελληνικής Αρχαιολογίας

Βασίλειος Χ. Πετράκος Μέντωρ 100 (2011): 7-44.

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.

Οι ανασκαφές της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας

Βασίλειος Χ. Πετράκος Μέντωρ 100 (2011): 147-172.

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.

Cultural Regionalism and Divergent Social Trajectories in Early Bronze Age Cyprus

David Frankel & Jennifer M. Webb American 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.