This book examines pottery assemblages from MBA levels at Akrotiri, Thera and related stratigraphy. The first volume includes an overview of relevant evidence in the Cyclades, sections on Akrotiri stratig-raphy and chronology, the typology and iconography of local and imported pottery, fabric analysis and manufacture technology, as well as a section on ceramic weaving equipment and an inscribed loom-weight.
The Bronze Age was a time of affluence and innovation for Crete, a unique "moment" in the early history of architecture that, in a bizarre way, seems to echo the formative years of the Modern world of the 20th century AD. The mythical Daidalos, with his many attributes and tasks, stands for the prototpye of “an architect at work” following orders and desires set by his clients and by society.
Edited by Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood & Aidan O’SullivanOxford2019
Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling is based on the proceedings of a two-day workshop on experimental archaeology at the Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens in 2017, in collaboration with UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture. Scholars, artists and craftspeople explore how people in the past made things, used and discarded them, from prehistory to the Middle Ages.
H μελέτη αυτή φωτίζει όψεις της θρησκείας σε μια από τις πιο σημαντικές περιόδους της αιγαιακής προϊστορίας. Εδώ τα συνεχώς εμπλουτισμένα αρχαιολογικά στοιχεία υποδεικνύουν σύνθετες διεργασίες σε έναν ευρύ γεωγραφικό χώρο. Αξιοποιώντας το σύνολο του διαθέσιμου αρχαιολογικού υλικού από ήδη γνωστές και από νέες θέσεις, η συγγραφέας διερευνά την εξέλιξη και τις αλλαγές που σημειώθηκαν στη θρησκευτική οργάνωση και τη συμπεριφορά των Μυκηναίων μεταξύ του 14ου και του 12ου αιώνα π.Χ.
Edited by Yannis Galanakis, Anastasia Christophilopoulou & James GrimeCambridge2017
Secret texts and secret writing have an age-old fascination. In this hook two stories are told: of the people who worked on breaking vital codes in the Second World War and those who deciphered the Linear B script – Europe’s earliest comprehensible writing system. Here experts in the fields of Mycenaean epigraphy and the study of the Aegean Bronze Age join with fellow specialists in mathematics, cryptography and the history of computer.
This book presents the publication of Building 1, the first building we excavated (in the years 1986-89) and surely once the finest in its day. It is not the first volume in the series, and indeed follows the publication of the partially excavated Building 2, and Block M/Building 6.
Although architecture provides a decisive framework for many forms of social interaction, thus preconfiguring them, and simultaneously represents an expression and hence a product of social conventions, few connections have thus far been made between the scholarly study of architecture and the social history of Mycenaean Greece.
Die mykenische Kultur gilt als erste Hochkultur auf dem europäischen Festland. Auf der griechischen Halbinsel Peloponnes und in Mittelgriechenland erlebte sie ihren Höhepunkt zwischen 1600 und 1200 v. Chr. Heinrich Schliemann entdeckte ab 1874 durch seine Ausgrabungen in Mykene, Tiryns und Orchomenos diese prähistorische Kultur.
Die minoischen Paläste waren multifunktionale Zentren, denen auch in wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht eine grundlegende Bedeutung zukam. Der Begriff der Redistribution war bisher prägend zur Beschreibung der minoischen Wirtschaft: Man ging davon aus, dass Güter an zentraler Stelle gesammelt und sodann an die Bevölkerung zurückverteilt wurden – auch Grundnahrungsmittel.
Edited by Jack L. Davis & John BennetPrinceton2017
This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in western Messenia in Greece.
Bodies of Maize, Eaters of Grain provides a comparative study of the earliest urban civilizations of the Maya lowlands and the Greek mainland. It builds upon earlier comparative studies by Gordon Childe, Robert Adams and Bruce Trigger, extending their work into new directions. Specifically, the focus lies on the art styles of the Late Preclassic lowland Maya and Mycenaean Greece.
In this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive treatment of textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade economy of Greece across 600 years during the transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age.
Edited by Corien Wiersma, Dimitris Agnousiotis, Evangelia Karimali, Wietske Prummel & H. Reinder Reinders Gronigen2016
This volume is devoted to Magoúla Pavlína, a Middle Bronze Age site in the municipality of Almirós (Thessalía, Greece). Immediately after the magoúla was brought under cultivation and ploughed for the first time, in 1996, the site was surveyed and a sample of ceramics, lithics, molluscs and bone material was collected.
Τhe present volume publishes the stratigraphy and general description of the buildings and structures located in the sector of the Cyclopean Platform. These are formal and monumental structures, clustered together in a distinct part of the settlement that is clearly separated from the residential and industrial quarters and accessed through a gateway.
Edited by Eva Alram-Stern & Barbara HorejsWien2018
Today archaeometric approaches to pottery are commonly utilised in Aegean Bronze Age archaeology. Pottery experts in the Aegean are now able to use various methods based on a well-established scientific framework and comparable data. This state-of-the-art interdisciplinary approach to Aegean ceramics produces a large amount of new and complex data, used by specialists and non-specialists for interpretations about socio-cultural phenomena.