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Paros – Antiparos – Despotiko. From Prehistoric to Contemporary Times

Yannos Kourayos Paros 2015

Paros – Antiparos – Despotiko. From Prehistoric to Contemporary Times The edition “Paros Antiparos Despotiko” is a useful and handy guide to Paros. With the guide in their hands, visitors to the island and residents alike will have the opportunity to tour around beautiful Paros, be informed about monuments and sights, trace the footsteps of ancient Parians and sense this exceptional aura emerging from the island’s long course of history.

Prehistoric Thera

Christos Doumas Athens 2016

Prehistoric Thera The mercantile transactions of the Theran seafarers with the Mediterranean and the world of the East brought great wealth, evidenced by the monumental public and private buildings that graced the city, and contributed to the burgeoning of figurative art focused on man and his environment. But what makes Akrotiri unique in the world is its wall-paintings. For this reason, readers of the book Prehistoric Thera will enjoy an exclusive privilege, as presented in its pages, for the first time, are restored mural paintings and pottery which are not exhibited in the Museum of Prehistoric Thera.

Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World. Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age

Margaretha Kramer-Hajos New York 2016

Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World. Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age Drawing on network and agency theory, two current and highly effective methodologies in prehistoric Mediterranean archaeology, Kramer-Hajos argues that the Euboean Gulf region thrived when it was part of a decentralized coastal and maritime network, and declined when it was incorporated in a highly centralized mainland-looking network. Her research and analysis contributes new insights to our understanding of the mechanics and complexity of the Bronze Age Aegean collapse.

Petras, Siteia. The Pre- and Proto-palatial Cemetery in Context. Acts of a Two-Day Conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 14-15 February 2015

Edited by Metaxia Tsipopoulou Aarhus 2017

Petras, Siteia. The Pre- and Proto-palatial Cemetery in Context. Acts of a Two-Day Conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 14-15 February 2015 The second conference report on the archaeological site of Petras, Siteia concerns the progress of research conducted about the very important and extensive cemetery of the Pre- and Proto-palatial periods in eastern Crete - one of very few excavations started in Crete in the 21st century.

Petras, Siteia I. A Minoan Palatial Settlement in Eastern Crete. Excavations of Houses I.1 and I.2

Edited by Metaxia Tsipopoulou Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2016

Petras, Siteia I. A Minoan Palatial Settlement in Eastern Crete. Excavations of Houses I.1 and I.2 This volume is the first of two that represent the final publication of Sector I of the Prepalatial to Postpalatial Minoan urban settlement and palace of Petras, Siteia, located in eastern Crete, and it presents the results of the excavations conducted there from 1985 to 2000. Individual chapters focus on the architecture (Tsipopoulou), cooking wares (Alberti), Early Minoan (EM) and Middle Minoan (MM) I pottery (Relaki), a unique example of an EM–MM amphora stamped with a seal prior to firing (Krzyszkowska), numerous miniature vessels and figurines (Simandiraki-Grimshaw), and a study of vessels (primarily Neopalatial) with potter’s marks (Tsipopoulou).

Metaphysis. Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age

Edited by Eva Alram-Stern, Fritz Blakolmer, Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, Robert Laffineur & Jörg Weilhartner Leuven-Liege 2016

Metaphysis. Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age At the METAPHYSIS conference a large range of issues of ritual, myth and symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age were addressed, such as ritual places and ritual landscapes, sacral and sepulchral rituals, social and political ceremonies, ritual acts and performances, the supernatural realm, liminality, irrationality and magic, mythology, hybrid creatures, heroes/heroines, divinities, symbols, emblems and iconography, images of power, and cosmology. Thus, META-PHYSIS was dedicated to the complex relationship between humans and ‘the other’ - the broad scholarly interface between a popular ritual belief and the cult of deities, i.e. religion in its proper sense.

Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece. In Honour of George Papathanassopoulos

Edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, William A. Parkinson, Daniel J. Pullen, Michael L. Galaty & Panagiotis Karkanas Oxford 2018

Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani, Greece. In Honour of George Papathanassopoulos This edited volume offers a full scholarly interdisciplinary study and interpretation of the results of approximately 40 years of excavation and analysis. It includes numerous chemical analyses and a much needed long series of radiocarbon dates, the corresponding microstratigraphic, stratigraphic and ceramic sequence, the human burials, stone and bone tools, faunal and floral remains, isotopic analyses, specific locations of human activities and ceremonies inside the cave, as well as a site description and the history of the excavation conducted by G. Papathanassopoulos.

Communities in Transition. The Circum-Aegean Area During the 5th and 4th Millennia BC

Edited by Søren Dietz, Fanis Mavridis, Žarko Tankosić & Turan Takaoǧlu Oxford 2018

Communities in Transition. The Circum-Aegean Area During the 5th and 4th Millennia BC Most of the papers presented here are multifaceted and complex in that they do not deal with only one topic or narrowly focus on a single line of reasoning or dataset. Arranged geographically they explore a series of key themes: Chronology, cultural affinities, and synchronization in material culture; changing social structure and economy; inter- and intra-site space use and settlement patterns, caves and include both site reports and regional studies.

Εικόνα και αρχαιολογία. Η περίπτωση της προϊστορικής αρχιτεκτονικής. Μέρος Α΄

Γιώργος Βαβουρανάκης Athens 2015

Εικόνα και αρχαιολογία. Η περίπτωση της προϊστορικής αρχιτεκτονικής. Μέρος Α΄ Το παρόν βιβλίο εξετάζει την παρουσία των αρχιτεκτονικών απεικονίσεων στις αρχαιολογικές δημοσιεύσεις προϊστορικών θέσεων στο Αιγαίο από την εποχή των πρωτοπόρων της έρευνας, όπως ο Heinrich Schliemann, ο Χρήστος Τσούντας και ο Arthur Evans, όταν τα σχέδια εν μέρει υποκαθιστούσαν και τις φωτογραφίες στις δημοσιεύσεις ανασκαφών, μέχρι και τις σύγχρονες ανασκαφές, οι οποίες διεξάγονται με την εκτενή χρήση της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας, με αποτέλεσμα την εύκολη και γρήγορη παραγωγή πολλών εικόνων.

Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future. The Potential of Digital Archaeology

Edited by Eric Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon & Derek B. Counts North Dakota 2016

Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future. The Potential of Digital Archaeology The range of projects and contexts ensures that Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future is far more than a state-of-the-field manual or technical handbook. Instead, the contributors embrace the growing spirit of critique present in digital archaeology.

L’edificio protopalaziale dell’Acropoli Mediana di Festòs (Vani CV-CVII)

Giorgia Baldacci Venezia 2017

L’edificio protopalaziale dell’Acropoli Mediana di Festòs (Vani CV-CVII) The present book consists in the full publication of both the structures and related finds excavated in the Protopalatial building located at the southern slope of the so-called Acropoli Mediana at Phaistos, ca. 100 m West of the Palace (Rooms CV, CVI and CVII). This building was the object of a rescue excavation, carried out by Doro Levi in 1969 and 1971.

Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean. First Steps towards a Comprehensive Study and Analysis, Acts of the ESF Exploratory Workshop held in Sèvres, 16–19 Sept.

Edited by P. Carlier†, Fr. Joannès, Fr. Rougemont & J. Zurbach Pisa, Roma 2017

Palatial Economy in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean. First Steps towards a Comprehensive Study and Analysis, Acts of the ESF Exploratory Workshop held in Sèvres, 16–19 Sept. Les échanges scientifiques et, plus précisément, le travail de comparaison à différentes échelles entre les palais égéens et proche-orientaux est très vite apparu comme une nécessité après le déchiffrement du linéaire B, et même avant. Le travail en commun et la comparaison restent des défis, et les méthodes de comparaison (échelles, objets, finalités) restent des objets de discussion.

Tegea IΙ. Investigations in the Sanctuary of Athena Alea 1990-94 and 2004

Edited by Erik Østby Athens 2014

Tegea IΙ. Investigations in the Sanctuary of Athena Alea 1990-94 and 2004 Knut Ødegård and his collaborators have held a key position here, but their survey work and other projects have focused on an analysis of the landscape surrounding Tegea and on the urban centre, not on the sanctuary. We expect, however, that the results from our first excavation project in the sanctuary of Athena Alea, as they are presented here, will encourage work to be continued also there.

Tegea I. Investigations in the Temple of Athena Alea 1991-94

Edited by Erik Østby Athens 2014

Tegea I. Investigations in the Temple of Athena Alea 1991-94 Knut Ødegård and his collaborators have held a key position here, but their survey work and other projects have focused on an analysis of the landscape surrounding Tegea and on the urban centre, not on the sanctuary. We expect, however, that the results from our first excavation project in the sanctuary of Athena Alea, as they are presented here, will encourage work to be continued also there. In such a continuation also the Norwegian institute and Norwegian archaeologists want to participate.

Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze Age Crete

Emily S. K. Anderson Cambridge 2016

Seals, Craft and Community in Bronze Age Crete Emily Anderson turns light on the moment just before the palaces, recognizing it as a remarkably vibrant phase of socio-cultural innovation. Exploring the role of craftspersons, travelers and powerful objects, she argues that social change resulted from creative work that forged connections at new scales and in novel ways.