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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

ARTICLES | 2007

The debate on Aegean high and low chronologies: An overview through Egypt

Rivista di Archaeologia, anno XXXI 2007 [2009]: 53-65.

One of the most important problems which affect the reconstruction of the Aegean Late Bronze Age (LBA), and its significance in the Mediterranean world, is the absolute chronology of the Minoan LM I-II periods, and, in turn, the absolute dating of the mature LM I A Theran eruption, and their relationships with the Egyptian and Cypriote relative chronologies.

Farfalle nell’Egeo: Una rassegna delle raffigurazioni dell’età del Bronzo nelle Cicladi, a Creta e nella Grecia continentale

Rivista di Archaeologia, anno XXXI (2007) [2009]: 29-51.

Among the Aegean Bronze Age images of the natural world, those of butterflies, which appear on various media (seals, signet-rings, gold leaf ornaments, ivory, frescoes) in Crete, in the Greek Mainland and in the Cyclades, play an interesting role, for their diffusion as well as for their possible symbolic meaning. This contribution collects and reviews all the representations of butterflies, in an overall view and on the basis of both iconographic and archaeological survey, with a particular attention of find contexts.

Prehistoric Corfu and its adjacent areas. Problems – perspectives. Proceedings of the Conference dedicated to Augustus Sordinas; Corfu, 17 December 2004

Corfu

Prehistoric Corfu and its adjacent areas. Problems – perspectives. Proceedings of the Conference dedicated to Augustus Sordinas; Corfu, 17 December 2004

Corfu is most notably known for the important role it has played in the sea routes to the West since the 8th century B.C.; over the past decades, excavation finds have helped analyse its presence, both materially as well as institutio¬nally. Until recently, prehistoric research in the island has been led exclusively by professor Augustus Sordinas.