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Feasting Practices and Changes in Greek Society from the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age

Rachel Sarah Fox Oxford 2012

Feasting Practices and Changes in Greek Society from the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age A feast is a sensory, sacralised and social occasion. Its multiple resonances and experiences extend far beyond the nutritive consumption of food and drink by a group of people. To reduce the act of feasting to functional terms overlooks the vivid tastes and smells, the bonds created and broken between fellow-participants, the awe induced by dining in the presence of the dead, the gods or a powerful leader, and the embedding of bodily memories in the diners to be recalled long after the event.

Petras, Siteia – 25 years of excavations and studies

Edited by Metaxia Tsipopoulou Athens 2012

Petras, Siteia – 25 years of excavations and studies The conference was hosted at the Danish Institute at Athens in October 2010, on the occasion of the 25 years of excavations and studies at the Minoan palatial site of Petras, Siteia (1985-2010). A team of scholars from six countries (Greece, United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark, USA and Canada) participated and presented material from the settlement, the palace and the cemetery.

Ethnicity in Mediterranean Protohistory

Wim M. J. van Binsbergen & Fred C. Woudhuizen Oxford 2011

Ethnicity in Mediterranean Protohistory This book on ethnicity in Mediterranean protohistory may well be regarded as the main and final result of the project on the ethnicity of the Sea Peoples as set up by Wim van Binsbergen as academic supervisor and worked out by Fred Woudhuizen who, in the process, earned himself a PhD from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (2006). The book is divided into four parts: I) Ethnicity in Mediterranean proto-history: explorations in theory and method: With extensive discussions of the Homeric catalogue of ships, the Biblical Table of Nations, and the Sea Peoples of the Late Bronze Age, against the background of a long-range comparative framework; II) The ethnicity of the Sea Peoples: an historical, archaeological and linguistic study; III) The ethnicity of the Sea Peoples: A second opinion; IV) The ethnicity of the Sea Peoples: Towards a synthesis, and in anticipation of criticism.

The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Volume II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies

Edited by Adamantios Sampson Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2011

The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Volume II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies The archaeological material presented in the first volume has demonstrated the importance of the Cave of the Cyclops, which unquestionably constitutes a byword in the prehistory of the Aegean. The information set out in the second volume mainly comes from the archaeological material, organic residues, and the archaeornetric studies that complete the image of this significant archaeological site.

L’émergence de la civilisation mycénienne en Grèce centrale

Laetitia Phialon Leuven-Liège 2011

L’émergence de la civilisation mycénienne en Grèce centrale Durant la dernière phase de l’Âge du Bronze (XVIe-XIe s. av. J.-C.), la civilisation mycénienne voit le jour et s’épanouit en Grèce continentale. Alors que la découverte des tombes à fosse de Mycènes et des tombes à tholos de Messénie a attiré l’attention sur le Péloponnèse, la Grèce centrale se révèle également sensible aux changements culturels qui se sont produits dès la fin de l’Helladique Moyen. Bien que le mode de vie ne paraisse pas s’être modifié radicalement dans les habitats examinés, les sépultures témoignent de changements culturels profonds, comme le suggèrent les inhumations successives de plus en plus souvent attestées.

A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, Volume 2

Edited by Y. Duhoux & A. Morpurgo Davies Louvain-la-Neuve 2011

A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, Volume 2 Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek. The tablets written in this script offer crucial information about the Mycenaean Greeks and their time. This Companion aims at not only summarizing the results of current research but also trying to explain the problems which arise from the study of the texts and the methods which can be used to solve them.

The Prehistory of the Island of Kythnos (Cyclades, Greece) and the Mesolithic settlement at Maroulas

Adamantios Sampson, Malgorzata Kaczanowska & Janus K. Kozlowski Krakow 2010

The Prehistory of the Island of Kythnos (Cyclades, Greece) and the Mesolithic settlement at Maroulas Kythnos with the neighbouring island of Keos is one of the islands of the Cyclades located closely to continental Greece. It is situated at a distance of 60 miles from Piraeus, but it is very close to Cape Sounion. The island which is 15 miles long from north to south and 5 miles wide is now almost bare, yet in the prehistoric period it boasted of quite abundant vegetation and important wild fauna.

New Light on the Bronze Age Ceramics from H. Schliemann’s Excavations at Troy: Studies on the Munich and Poznań Collections within the Anatolian-Aegean Cultural Context

Dariusz Maliszewski Oxford 2010

New Light on the Bronze Age Ceramics from H. Schliemann’s Excavations at Troy: Studies on the Munich and Poznań Collections within the Anatolian-Aegean Cultural Context The geographical position of Troy at the cross-roads between Anatolia, the Aegean, Black and Marmara Seas, as well as the eastern Balkans, has made it a focal point of cultural, economic and political relations for these regions. One aspect of this huge, multidimensional subject, being investigated for many years, is the collections of artefacts from H. Schliemann's excavations in Troy kept at many museums.

Thapsos-Class Ware Reconsidered: The Case of Achaea in the Northern Peloponnese. Pottery Workshop or Pottery Style?

Anastasia Gadolou Oxford 2011

Thapsos-Class Ware Reconsidered: The Case of Achaea in the Northern Peloponnese. Pottery Workshop or Pottery Style? Recent excavations in the region of Achaea in the northern Peloponnese (Greece) have brought to light new evidence on the Thapsos-class of vases. Their identification amongst the grave goods as well as the dedications in the two important sanctuary sites of the area provide a starting point for reassessing the question of this particular ware’s identity and its main production centre.

Analysing Pottery. Processing – Classification – Publication.

Edited by Barbara Horejs, Reinhard Jung & Peter Pavúk Bratislava 2010

Analysing Pottery. Processing – Classification – Publication. The volume bears witness to the variety of pottery survival: mostly large amounts from hundreds of contexts, often in a secondary or tertiary position, pottery from short-lived settlements or tell-settlements in use for millennia, plain or decorated pottery, handmade pottery or wheel-thrown mass products.

From Minos to Midas: Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia

Brendan Burke Oxford 2010

From Minos to Midas: Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia Textile production was of greater value and importance to people in the past than any other social craft activity: everyone depended on cloth. As with other craft goods, such as pottery, metal objects, or ivory carving, the large-scale production and exchange of textiles required specialization and some degree of centralization.

The Early and Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Greece: Current Status and Future Prospects

Vangelis Tourloukis Leiden 2010

The Early and Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Greece: Current Status and Future Prospects Although the Greek Peninsula lies within a core area of early hominin movements between Africa and Europe but also within Eurasia itself, the Lower Palaeolithic record of Greece remains as yet extremely poor. Choosing the scanty Greek record as a case-study, Tourloukis elaborates on a hitherto largely overlooked subject in the Eurasian Early-Middle Pleistocene archaeology: the role of geomorphic processes in biasing archaeological distribution patterns of early human presence.