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Settlement and Social Trends in the Argolid and the Methana Peninsula, 1200-900 BC

Katie Lantzas Oxford 2012

Settlement and Social Trends in the Argolid and the Methana Peninsula, 1200-900 BC 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.

Le mythe de l’Atlantide

René Treuil Paris 2012

Le mythe de l’Atlantide 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.

An Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape. A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity

L. Vance Watrous, Donald Haggis, Krzysztof Nowicki, Natalia Vogeikoff- Brogan & Maryanne Schultz Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012

An Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape. A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity 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.

Helike IV. Ancient Helike and Aigialeia. Protohelladika: The Southern and Central Greek Mainland

Edited by Dora Katsonopoulou Αthens 2011

Helike IV. Ancient Helike and Aigialeia. Protohelladika: The Southern and Central Greek Mainland 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.

Zervos et l’art des Cyclades

Edited by Annie Caubet Vezelay 2011

Zervos et l’art des Cyclades 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.

The Dams and Water Management Systems of Minoan Pseira

Philip P. Betancourt Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012

The Dams and Water Management Systems of Minoan Pseira 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.

Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions volume 1: Analysis

Silvia Ferrara Oxford/New York 2012

Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions volume 1: Analysis 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.

“The Greeks: Whence and When?”. The mainstream scientific responses and the present state of research on the first beginning of the Greek civilisation (in Greek)

Theodoros G. Giannopoulos Heraklion 2012

“The Greeks: Whence and When?”. The mainstream scientific responses and the present state of research on the first beginning of the Greek civilisation (in Greek) 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 Minoan Double Axe. An experimental study of production and use

Maria Lowe Fri Oxford 2011

The Minoan Double Axe. An experimental study of production and use 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.