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ΚΕΡΜΑΤΙΑ ΦΙΛΙΑΣ – Studies in Honour of Ioannis Touratsoglou (2 vols)

Edited by S. Drougou, D. Evgenidou, Ch. Kritzas, N. Kaltsas, B. Penna, I. Tsourti, M. Galani-Krikou & E. Ralli Athens 2009

ΚΕΡΜΑΤΙΑ ΦΙΛΙΑΣ – Studies in Honour of Ioannis Touratsoglou (2 vols) Ioannis Touratsoglou follows the long tradition of the Directors of the Numismatic Museum, who have been recognised as academics with a strong personality. These volumes are a small token, in return for his contribution to the Museum. The participation of many different colleagues, from a variety of academic fields, reflects the appreciation, friendship and recognition of Touratsoglou among them.

Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age

Joanna S. Smith Cambridge 2009

Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age

Dramatic social and political change marks the period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Iron Age (ca. 1300–700 BC) across the Mediterranean. Inland palatial centres of bureaucratic power weakened or collapsed ca. 1200 BC while entrepreneurial exchange by sea survived and even expanded, becoming the Mediterranean-wide network of Phoenician trade. At the heart of that system was Kition, one of the largest harbour cities of ancient Cyprus. Earlier research has suggested that Phoenician rule was established at Kition after the abandonment of part of its Bronze Age settlement.

Ethnè grecs à l’âge du Bronze. I: Introduction, Abantes-Epéens, II: Etoliens-Thessaliens (2 vols)

Michel B. Sakellariou Athens 2009

Ethnè grecs à l’âge du Bronze. I: Introduction, Abantes-Epéens, II: Etoliens-Thessaliens (2 vols) L’auteur s’emploie à identifier et situer, dans l’espace et dans le temps, les ethnè grecs apparus avant c.a. 1100/1050 de l’ère préchrétienne, sur la base à la fois d’éléments de tradition et d’indices onomastiques, culturels, institutionnels, dialectaux et autres, tous établis suivant de règles uniformes et après discussion critique détaillée. Les vingt-cinq chapitres, pour autant d’ethnè identifiés, sont précédés d’une introduction touchant : (1) à l’arrivée des Protogrecs, (2) à l’image d’un ethnos grec à l’âge du Bronze, et (3) aux normes à appliquer, et suivis de conclusions générales par trois unités thématiques : (1) description de chaque ethnos identifié, (2) pays où il se laisse repérer et dates respectives, et (3) les étapes de son expansion et, le cas échéant, sa diffusion.

Apiculture in the Prehistoric Aegean. Minoan and Mycenaean Symbols Revisited

Haralampos V. Harissis & Anastasios V. Harissis Oxford 2009

Apiculture in the Prehistoric Aegean. Minoan and Mycenaean Symbols Revisited This study surveys the evidence for beekeeping in the Prehistoric Aegean, from references in later literature to archaeological remains of beekeeping paraphernalia, symbolic depictions in jewellery and on seals, and the evidence of folklore and mythology. Finds of hives, smoking pots, honey extractors (some of them identified as such by the authors) and so-on indicate systematic Minoan apiculture, and the authors propose that contra Evans, seals can be reinterpreted as depicting apiculture, rather than religious scenes, and used by overseers of beekeeping, a high-status and highly valued industry.

Euboea and Central Greece

Edited by Andreas G. Vlachopoulos Athens 2009

Euboea and Central Greece

The second volume Euboea and Central Greece in the series Archaeology completes the circumnavigation of the Aegean islands presented in the first volume; it then moves westwards towards the Ionian Sea, covering the southern part of the Greek Mainland, the region known today as Central Greece or Sterea Ellada. During historical times, this wide geographical region was not a discreet entity with a specific name, as were Thessaly, Epirus or the Peloponnese. Nevertheless, the prefectures of Central Greece (Attica, Boeotia, Phthiotis, Eurytania, Phocis, Aetoloakarnania), that is, the modern administrative-geographical districts, coincide for the greater part of their territory with the ancient regions that in Antiquity were defined as lands of ‘ethne’ or tribes.

Athens Annals of Archaeology, vol. 40-41

Athens 2008

Athens Annals of Archaeology, vol. 40-41 The journal Athens Annals of Archaeology (ΑΑΑ) was first published by Prof. Sp. Marinatos in 1968. Nowadays it is published under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Most of the articles are written in Greek, followed by an extensive English summary. Five of the articles of the last volume are of prehistoric interest.

Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques

J.W. Shaw Padova 2009

Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques This book has been written with the aim of providing a guide, for students and profes­sional archaeologists alike, to the building materials used by the ‘Minoans’ and the techniques they used to prepare and set them into place. It often focuses on the finer buildings discov­ered, thus on the architectural style characterizing the Minoan «Palaces» and the houses of the affluent.

Der frühbronzezeitliche Schmuckhortfund von Kap Kolonna. Ägina und die Ägäis im Goldzeitalter des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr.

Claus Reinholdt Wien 2008

Der frühbronzezeitliche Schmuckhortfund von Kap Kolonna. Ägina und die Ägäis im Goldzeitalter des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr.

The jewellery hoard excavated under the floor of an Early Bronze Age house-unit in the prehistoric settlement of Cape Kolonna/Aigina represents in many ways an exceptional collection still unique in the central Aegean of the late third millenium B.C. The material consists of precious metals (gold, silver) and several nonmetallic valuable objects (carnalian, rock-crystal, frit) and belongs to a secondary hoard of pins, pendants and beads, partly bent for the deposit context (pins).

Anaskamma. Excavating Journal, vol. 3, 2009

Thessaloniki 2009

Anaskamma. Excavating Journal, vol. 3, 2009

The journal Anaskamma is published by the Emeritus Professor G.H. Hourmouziadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). The articles are written in Greek and most of them refer to the excavations at the Neolithic Lake dwelling of Dispilio (Macedonia).

Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism

Cathy Gere Chicago 2009

Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. Over the next three decades, Evans engaged in an unprecedented reconstruction project, creating a complex of concrete buildings on the site that owed at least as much to modernist architecture as it did to Bronze Age remains.

The Minoans in the Central, Eastern and Northern Aegean — New Evidence. Acts of a Minoan Seminar 22-23 January 2005 in Collaboration with the Danish Institute at Athens and the German Archaeological Institute at Athens

Edited by Colin F. Macdonald, Erik Hallager & Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier Athens 2009

The Minoans in the Central, Eastern and Northern Aegean — New Evidence. Acts of a Minoan Seminar 22-23 January 2005 in Collaboration with the Danish Institute at Athens and the German Archaeological Institute at Athens The two-day seminar, which took place on 22-23 January 2005 at the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, gathered archaeologists of the Aegean (Greek, Turkish and other nationalities) who were involved in publishing material from sites that displayed evidence for a greater or lesser ‘Minoan presence’.

Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age. Proceedings of an International Symposium held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, on November 19-21, 2004

Edited by Iris Tzachili Athens 2008

Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age. Proceedings of an International Symposium held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, on November 19-21, 2004 The jigsaw puzzle of the metallurgy and metalworking of the Aegean is slowly being completed. It is being filled in by new finds, new methods, and analyses that point to new possibilities. The pieces of the puzzle are still difficult to assemble: our knowledge is frequently fragmented, both geographically and chronologically.