BOOKS
Edited by Isabelle Boehm & Sylvie Müller-Celka
Lyon
2010
Y a-t-il une distinction entre civil et religieux en Grèce à l’âge du Bronze ? Les auteurs des contributions réunies dans ce volume abordent cette délicate question en suivant une démarche originale, croiser les points de vue de l’archéologue, de l’épigraphiste et du linguiste.
Evangelia Stefani
Thessaloniki
2010
The prehistoric settlement of Angelochori, Emathia, in Macedonia, is located in a rural area, near to its modern namesake village. The excavations lasted from 1994 until 2003 and were conducted by the 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. The remains of a Late Bronze Age settlement have come to light.
Gemma Marakas
Oxford
2010
The study of Greek ritual practice throughout the LH III B to Protogeometric periods is the central theme of this research. Chapter Two acknowledges the work of previous Aegean archaeologists and their methods for classification of the features which should be present in order for a site to be categorised as cultic in nature. The chapter goes one step further with the creation of new criteria specifically adapted to be relevant to all types of sanctuaries, be they palatial cult centres, settlement shrines, or isolated open-air shrines throughout the period.
Arianna Rizio
Patras
2010
Η διαπραγμάτευση της αχαϊκής τοπογραφίας κατά τη μυκηναϊκή περίοδο αποτελεί τμήμα της διδακτορικής διατριβής της συγγραφέως που αφορά τους οικισμούς της Πελοποννήσου κατά την Ύστερη περίοδο του Χαλκού. Η διατριβή επιπλέον επικεντρώνεται στη συλλογή μαρτυριών που έχουν σχέση με τα οικιστικά κατάλοιπα αυτής της περιόδου, καθώς επίσης και στην ανάπτυξη μιας προβληματικής, αντικείμενο της οποίας αποτελεί η θεώρηση της δημιουργίας και ανάπτυξης του μυκηναϊκού οικισμού. Κατά τη διάρκεια της συγγραφής της και στο πλαίσιο της κατάταξης και ανάλυσης των οικιστικών εγκαταστάσεων ανά νομό, η συγγραφέας προσπάθησε να δώσει έμφαση στα τοπικά χαρακτηριστικά ώστε να γίνει αντιληπτό ότι αυτά έπαιξαν το δικό τους δυναμικό ρόλο στη δημιουργία και οργάνωση των οικιστικών πυρήνων της Ελλάδας κατά την υπό έρευνα περίοδο.
Edited by Nikolaos Kaltsas, Sylvian Fachard, Athanasia Psalti, Mimika Giannopoulou
Athens
2010
Greek catalogue of the temporary exhibition “Eretria: Insights into an Ancient City” that was hosted at the National Archaeological Museum from April 26th to August 25th, 2010. The exhibition, which was co-organized by the National Archaeological Museum and the IA’ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and was an initiative of the Swiss School of Archaeology, narrated the past of the city of Eretria and central Euboea from the prehistoric times until Late Antiquity.
Maria Anastasiadou
Darmstadt/Mainz
2011
The study examines the Middle Minoan three-sided soft stone prism – hereafter referred to simply as prism. 625 examples of these seals known to date serve as the basis for the research. The goals of the study are twofold: firstly to assess the place of the prism in soft stone MM glyptic; and secondly, to examine and analyse prism iconography.
Anna Stroulia
Bloomington & Indianapolis
2010
Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. As a consequence of this oversight the potential for this material to illuminate aspects of prehistoric life remains unexplored.
Andonis Vasilakis & Keith Branigan
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010
This volume presents the final report on the excavation of two Prepalatial tholos tombs and their associated remains at Chatzinas Liophyto near the Moni Odigitria (monastery) in south-central Crete. The grave goods and burial remains include pottery, metal objects, chipped stones, stone vases, gold and stone jewelry, sealstones, and human skeletal material. The results of the associated survey of the upper catchment of the Hagiopharango region are also reported.
Constantinos Papadopoulos
Oxford
2010
In the striking event of death, each community produces rituals, not explicitly or exclusively of a funerary nature. This is done in order to maintain both its stability and integrity, while incorporating the living into a fixed system of culturally defined roles and statuses.
Edited by Giorgos Vavouranakis
Athens
2011
This book is about the relationship between the people and the sea in the prehistoric Aegean. It explores how people understood the sea as an integral part of their way of life and examines the role the sea played in the prehistoric societies of the archipelago. It may at first seem obvious - even selfevident - that there had been a close relationship between people and the sea, since the Aegean Archipelago is the dominant feature of its wider area. It spreads over at total area of about 214,000 sq km. This is a bit less than the overall land area of Greek state today, which is almost 132,000 sq km. This large area of water includes over 1000 islands, many of which are populated today. The Aegean Sea and its islands epitomise Greece in the minds of many people today.
Eric H. Cline
Oxford
2009
A reissue of Eric H. Cline’s highly regarded study of trade in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, first published in 1994 and out-of-print since 2000. The monograph is composed of three principal parts: 1) an analytical section discussing the trade and contacts which occurred between the Aegean, Italy, Egypt, and the Near East during the latter half of the second millennium BC, and the social, economic and cultural implications of such contacts; 2) first, a catalogue of literary and pictorial references to the LBA Aegean found in outside areas – primarily Egypt and the Near East – with transliterations and translations of the appropriate texts, and second, a compilation of the references to, and loanwords from, other areas of the Mediterranean found in the Linear B texts in the Aegean; and 3) a catalogue, by object type, of all the Orientalia and Occidentalia found in LBA contexts within the Aegean area.
Pandelis Komninos
Thessaloniki
2010
Το βιβλίο εστιάζει στην αποτύπωση του περιβάλλοντος στην αιγαιακή εικονογραφία και στο πως μετουσιώνεται σε τοπίο. Διερευνά όψεις του τοπίου που βιώνουν οι άνθρωποι στην ανατολική Μεσόγειο, καθώς και τον τρόπο που επιδρά η ιδεολογία και ο συμβολισμός στην αποτύπωση αυτή, Εξάγονται χρήσιμα συμπεράσματα για τα εθνοτικά τοπία που «έχτιζαν» οι άνθρωποι αυτοί, τις ταυτότητες που συγκροτούσαν και συνακόλουθα τον αυτό-προσδιοτισμό της θέσης τους μέσα στον κόσμο της Εποχής του Χαλκού.
Ioannis Fappas
Chania
2010
The present study focuses on the matters and occasions during which perfumed oils were used, as well as on the analysis of the ‘ideology’ that accompanied these practices in the area of Mycenaean Greece and the wider Eastern Mediterranean during the 14th and 13th cent. BC.
Edited by Eric H. Cline
Oxford
2010
The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution of early Greek religious practices and mythology. The period also witnessed a violent conflict in Asia Minor between warring peoples in the region, a conflict commonly believed to be the historical basis for Homer's Trojan War. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean provides a detailed survey of these fascinating aspects of the period, and many others, in sixty-six newly commissioned articles.
Quentin Letesson
Louvain-la-Neuve
2009
Âge d'or de la civilisation minoenne, la période néopalatiale (1600-1425 avant notre ère) révéla un paysage architectural foisonnant et complexe. Bien que cette architecture fut largement étudiée et commentée, à ce jour, elle reste l'objet de bon nombre d'interrogations et souffre de l'absence d'approches réellement systématiques et exhaustives. En se basant sur les principes de la théorie de la syntaxe spatiale et en les étoffant de méthodologies auxiliaires, cet ouvrage se propose d'analyser le bâti néopalatial sous ses formes les plus diverses.
