This research centres on the ideology and socio-economic practices of the communities in the Argolid and the Methana Peninsula (Peloponnese, Greece) that existed during approximately 1200 BC through 900 BC. A thorough examination of mortuary practices, the built environment, ceramic material and metal objects demonstrate that during this transitional period an ideological shift took place alongside complex socio-economic developments.
Traditionnellement associé à la quête géographique d’une brillante civilisation disparue, le mythe de l’Atlantide invite à un questionnement passionnant sur la modernité de cette fable des origines perdues.
L. Vance Watrous, Donald Haggis, Krzysztof Nowicki, Natalia Vogeikoff- Brogan & Maryanne SchultzPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania2012
This project was conceived in 1991 by L.V. Watrous. At that time, the Mirabello Bay area had been the focus of excavation at various sites - e.g., Vasiliki, Mochlos, Kavousi, and Pseira - for a number of years. Moreover, two surveys had just been completed in the Istron and Kavousi areas.
Since 2007, the Belgian School at Athens has undertaken excavations on the Kefali or Buffo hill, east of the village of Sissi, on the north coast of Crete where a Minoan site was occupied approximately between 2500 and 1200 BC.
The new volume Helike IV was recently published by the Helike Society, edited by the Society President Prof. Dora Katsonopoulou. In the new volume, under the specific title PROTOHELLADIKA- The Southern and Central Greek Mainland, are included 18 papers of well known Greek and foreign scholars regarding results of studies and research in Ancient Helike and other Early Helladic sites of the southern and central Greece.
Ce livre rend hommage à l’action pionnière de Christian Zervos, l’un des premiers à considérer les antiquités des Cyclades comme de véritables œuvres d’art, sources d’inspiration pour les artistes contemporains, à qui il ouvrait les pages des Cahiers d’art.
Philip P. Betancourt Philadelphia, Pennsylvania2012
When the Temple University archaeological project was excavating at the Bronze Age seaport on Pseira Island and Richard Hope Simpson discovered two massive stone and soil dams that were built in the middle of the second millennium B.C., we knew we had opened a new chapter in prehistoric engineering and water management.
This volume offers the first comprehensive examination of an ancient writing system from Cyprus and Syria known as Cypro-Minoan. After Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, other un-deciphered scripts of the second millennium B.C. from the Aegean world (Linear A) and the Eastern Mediterranean (Cypro-Minoan) became the focus of those trying to crack this ancient and historical code. Despite several attempts for both syllabaries, this prospect has remained unrealized.
When does the Greek culture begin? How can we methodologically define its starting-point and locate it in time? To which times and which processes should we trace back the origins of the Greeks of historical antiquity? The present book is a scientific as well as a writing enterprise.
The third volume in the Archaeology series examines the Peloponnese, home to important city-states, birthplace of mythical heroes, cradle of ancient religious celebrations and athletics games of the ancient world.
Think of a souvenir from a foreign trip, or an heirloom passed down the generations--objects allow us to think and act beyond the proximate, across both space and time.
This study investigates the double axe as a tool in Crete during the Minoan period. Previous scholars have attributed the double axe to the equipment of a woodworker, a carpenter, a stonemason and a butcher. The working activities performed by the different users plausibly would have left various kinds of use-wear on the axe, but this has not been studied until now.
My interest in Thermos goes back to the time when I served as Ephor of Antiquities for Achaia and Aitoloakarnania (1976-1983). It was my obligation to deal with archaeological matters of that site, such as the arrangement of the agora. Thus, when, in 1983, at the request of the Archaeological Society in Athens, I undertook the continuation of the excavation of Thermos, which had been conducted by Rhomaios until 1932, I began with the agora.
Το παρόν βιβλίο, αποτελεί την τρίτη εκδοτική συνέχεια, μετά από εκείνο για την «Ιστορία της ενορίας και του χωριού Αγάπητος» και το δεύτερο με τίτλο «Τοπωνυμικά και Ονοματολογικά της νήσου Τήνου» (ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟΣ: ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΑ-ΜΕΣΑΙΩΝΙΚΑ, Βιβλίο Νο 1 και Νο 2 αντίστοιχα) με τα οποία εγκαινιάστηκε μια σειρά ειδικών δημοσιευμάτων που αφορούν την Ιστορία της Τήνου και απασχόλησαν τον συγγραφέα επί 36 συνεχή χρόνια.