BOOKS
Edited by Onur Özbek
Istanbul
2008
This book constitutes a thoroughly refereed International Workshop held in Çanakkale in 2006 and organised by two universities conjointly on funeral rites, rituals and ceremonies from Prehistory to Antiquity. The book covers a time span from mostly Bronze Age to Classical periods and examines some of the archaeological evidence while presenting and discussing individual sites on funeral practices. Scholars of history and archaeology from different countries, contribute to this volume by providing examples not only from the Troas region itself but also from neighbouring and more distant lands. Recent excavations and field surveys in the Troas and its neighbours provide additional information about the details of our ancestors’ response to the universal inevitable reality: the death.
Edited by J. Lesley Fitton
London
2009
The Aigina Treasure, a group of Greek Bronze Age gold jewellery and other objects believed to come from the island of Aigina, was memorably described by Reynold Higgins as ‘a rich, beautiful and very perplexing collection’. It has both fascinated and puzzled scholars and the wider world since it first came to notice in 1891, when it was offered to the British Museum for sale. The fascination arises from the recognition that such rich assemblages are rare: the Treasure potentially provides very significant evidence both for the history of early jewellery and for the history of the culture that made and used it. However, the lack of precise provenance and known associations makes it difficult to determine exactly where in our picture of the ancient world the Aigina Treasure fits.
Alix Hänsel
Berlin
2009
Bis heute ist Heinrich Schliemanns Bedeutung — Schatzgräber oder Pionier archäologischer Forschung — ebenso umstritten wie die Frage, ob die von ihm ausgegrabene Stadt tatsächlich das homerische Troja war. Das Berliner Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte besitzt weltweit die größte Sammlung von archäologischen Funden aus Schliemanns Grabungen in Troja, der sagenhaften Stadt des Dichters Homer.
Edited by Despoina Daniilidou
Athens
2009
In 2008, Professor Spyros Iakovides celebrated his 85th birthday as well as 50 years of contribution to the excavation of Mycenae. He originally collaborated with George Mylonas and has been excavation director for the last 20 years. In order to honour his contribution, students, colleagues and friends dedicated a volume of studies on Mycenaean archaeology, the main field of research for Spyros Iakovides. The volume is a small token of appreciation, respect and caring for the academic professor and friend, with the fitting title of - ΔΩΡΟΝ -, a word first recorded on a Linear B tablet (ΤΥ Τη 316) with the meaning of contribution (do-ra).
Edited by Helène Whittaker
Oxford
2008
With the exception of Gullög Nordquist’s and Michael Wedde’s contributions, the articles in this volume derive from a session held at the eleventh annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Cork, September, 2005. The title of the session was Aegean Archaeology in the Wider European Context. The papers centred around questions concerning direct contacts and specific influences, cultural interaction between the Mycenaean world and the rest of Europe, and the role of Aegean material in discussions and interpretations of material found elsewhere.
Edited by Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis
Paris
2009
Le passé préhistorique du Sud-Est de l’Europe est à l’heure actuelle au centre de débats passionnants. Les enjeux sont, en effet, importants tant pour la péninsule balkanique elle-même, qui, entre la Méditerranée orientale et centrale, s’étire sur des latitudes importantes, que pour le vieux continent européen aux portes duquel elle se situe.
Edited by Sturt W. Manning & Mary Jaye Bruce
Oxford
2009
Dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, provides a key resource for understanding archaeological sites and art historical objects and serves as a stepping stone for investigating past climate. In the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, Peter Ian Kuniholm is synonymous with dendrochronology and dendro-archaeology. Since 1973, he has collected wood and developed chronologies from forests, historic buildings, and archaeological sites throughout Greece, Turkey, and surrounding lands; the wood archive at Cornell houses thousands of samples, some of which extend back to 7000 BC.
Edited by Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras
Philadelphia
2009
This book is the tenth volume in the series of excavation reports about the harbor town of Pseira, which is located on the island of the same name, just off the northeast coast of Crete. The book focuses on the excavation and interpretation of the architecture and material culture in Block AF. This southern group of buildings is one of the most important areas in the settlement because of its long succession of building phases. Block AF provides the fullest sequence of building phases from any one area at Pseira, with habitation extending from before MM II to LM III. It has examples of complex architectural details including a “pillar crypt”, elaborate upstairs floors, a well-preserved U-shaped staircase, and a well-designed kitchen, all of which contribute significantly to our knowledge of East Cretan building practices.
Edited by Dimitris Damaskos & Dimitris Plantzos
Athens
2008
Modern Greeks envisage their collective past as a cultural commodity; authentic, usable and eternally present. Archaeology has been instrumental in constructing the nation’s identity, built on the tangible evidence it produces. This is by no means just a Greek phenomenon, a peculiarity of the state that inherited ‘the glory that was Greece’. The rapport, however, between archaeological research and national(ist) strategy presents some interesting facets in a country which has been struggling, for most of the twentieth century, to counter the predicaments of modernity with the promise of modernization. And it is these peculiarities, concerning the Greek archaeologist as much as the historian and the social anthropologist, which prompted this publication.
Panagiotis Karkanas
Athens
2010
"Μιας και η αρχαιολογία βρίσκει όλα τα βασικά δεδοµένα της µε την ανασκαφή, κάθε αρχαιολογικό πρόβληµα ξεκινά ως πρόβληµα της γεωαρχαιολογίας". H ρήση αυτή του διάσημου αρχαιολόγου C. Renfrew φανερώνει τη σημασία ενός επιστημονικού κλάδου που ξεκίνησε μεν τυπικά πριν από τριάντα πέντε χρόνια περίπου, αλλά παραμένει ακόμη νεωτερισμός για πολλές αρχαιολογικές ανασκαφές.
Edited by Anna Lucia D’Agata, Aleydis van de Moortel & M.B. Richardson
Princeton
2009
Twenty-five years after Colin Renfrew’s seminal book, The Archaeology of Cult, was published, the study of ritual and religion in Crete remains one of the most vital and debated areas of research in Old World prehistory. For the present volume, 25 specialists in the archaeology of the island have been invited to bring the subject up to date. Their multivocalist discourse ranges in time from the Bronze to the Iron Age and includes, in five diverse sections, unpublished finds, theoretically-informed discussion of ritual behavior, and innovative reconstructions of sacred landscapes.
Edited by Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki
Khania
2009
The city of Khania is rightly proud to be included among cities with a long history and especially cities where excavations have revealed a continuous habitation in successive occupation layers. It is the only city of modern Crete which digs up so many memories every day and brings to light so many traces of its distant past. Traces erased and erased, like a palimpsest, but always leaving readable and recognizable impression. This is how the reconstitution of the unique architectural palimpsest of the city of Khania began, which has been described as a city of Mediterranean architecture. At the same time, it is one of the most ancient cities of the Mediterranean and the whole of Europe, a description that is supported by the existence of an organized settlement of “urban” character as early as the third millennium B.C.
Edited by Mihael Budja
Ljubljana
2009
The 16th Neolithic Studies anthology comprises seventeen selected papers presented at the fifteenth Neolithic Seminar Climate Anomalies, Population and Culture Dynamics in Prehistory that took place at the Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana in November 2008.
Helen Hughes-Brock with John Boardman
Mainz
2009
These volumes publish the 516 Minoan and Mycenaean seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Although many have been previously published, this publication is far more comprehensive than any which precede it and several artefacts previously considered doubtful or fake have been re-examined and rehabilitated. The seals are each illustrated and photographed with descriptions, commentary, comparanda and bibliographies.
Edited by Mercourios Georgiadis & Chrysanthi Gallou
Oxford
2009
The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 12th European Archaeological Association conference at Krakow in Poland, in September 2006, titled The Past in the Past: The Significance of Memory and Tradition in the Transmission of Culture. In the papers presented in this session as well as in the chapters presented in this volume there were three central concepts, which were very closely linked and interrelated, memory, tradition and identity. It became apparent that there were various ways in which they were perceived and consciously exploited within different societies.
