How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and the eastern coast of Italy between 4000-750 BC, archaeologists consider the custom of ritually killing objects as a normative, if inconsistent practice.
This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th annual conference in Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (POCA 2009), which was held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford from the 19th to the 21st of November 2009. POCA 2009 encompassed 24 presentations by postgraduate students and young researchers, coming from a number of institutions and universities in Europe and the United States.
Roland Étienne, Nota Kourou, Eva Simantoni-BourniaAthens 2013
Μια συλλογική επιστημονική μελέτη, με σκοπό την προβολή της ιστορίας της Τήνου έως τους ύστερους ρωμαϊκούς χρόνους, με επιστημονικά κριτήρια που στοιχειοθετούνται από τις αρχαιολογικές ανασκαφές στην Τήνο και τις Κυκλάδες, από μαρτυρίες γραπτών πηγών της αρχαιότητας και τη διεθνή βιβλιογραφία.
This book is an attempt to reconstruct the image of Mycenaean Arcadia based on the archaeological and topographical data, more than four decades after the systematic investigation of R. Howell (BSA 1970) in the region.
This volume brings together a number of papers that were presented at the international symposium on Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society. Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece organised by the University of Athens (UoA) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and held at the Université libre de Bruxelles in November 2013.
Um die Mitte des 9. Jhs. v. Chr. bringen die Töpfer und Vasenmaler auf Kreta einen eigenwilligen geometrischen Keramikstil hervor, dessen Hauptmerkmale kurvolineare Ornamente und erste figürliche Darstellungen nach dem Ende der bronzezeitlichen minoischen Kultur sind. Besonders die Ornamente - Schlaufenlinien, Spiralen und Flechtbänder - sind in der Forschung häufig auf nahöstlichen Einfluss zurückgeführt worden.
The volume presents the study of the material associated with textile manufacture, deriving from the Neolithic and Minoan levels of Phaistos and Ayia Triada. It includes 6 chapters and 5 technical appendixes. In the first chapter, the archaeological sequence of both sites is described with particular attention to the areas and periods with more important evidence of textile production.
Edited by Ann-Louise Schallin & Iphiyenia TournavitouStockholm 2015
This volume contains the proceedings of the conference “Mycenaeans up to date: The archaeology of the north-eastern Peloponnese—current concepts and new directions”, which was held on 10–16 November 2010, under the auspices of the Swedish Institute at Athens.
Η υποδοχή του βιβλίου από το αναγνωστικό κοινό της Τήνου και από ενδιαφερόμενους ειδικούς επιστήμονες και Βιβλιοθήκες πολύ σύντομα εξάντλησαν την πρώτη έκδοση του παρόντος. Στην παρούσα 2η έκδοση ο συγγραφέας με περισσότερα και νεότερα στοιχεία αναδομεί τα Κεφάλαια και τα περιεχόμενα τους λαμβάνοντας υπόψη νεότερες μελέτες και άρθρα με τα οποία βελτιώνονται κάποιες θέσεις, ενισχύονται κάποιες απόψεις του και προτείνονται σε συγκεκριμένα ζητήματα νέες εκδοχές.
On the 13th of December 2010, a small group of Early Iron Age specialists from Greece and Cyprus, who represent two generations of Greek scholars that have followed in the footsteps of Professor J. N. Coldstream, met at the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus to honour his memory.
This volume is the first comprehensive archaeological catalogue of all the extant inscriptions written in the un-deciphered syllabary of Late Bronze Age Cyprus (1500-1200 BC): the so-called Cypro-Minoan script.
Edited by Maria Relaki & Despina CatapotiNew York & London 2013
Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect means.
The present book is the result of two different excavations. The fist excavation was carried out by the Italian archaeologist Federico Halbherr in the region of Hagia Triada, which has been called “Villaggio”. The second one has been undertaken by the author one century later (2010-2015).
Thanks to the biography by Joan Evans, sister of Arthur Evans, the research of John J. Wilkes and the new biography by Silvia L. Horwitz, we know much about Arthur Evans’s work in the Balkans prior to his discoveries on Crete.