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ARTICLES | 2009

The Minoan Santorini eruption and tsunami deposits in Palaikastro (Crete): Dating by geology, archaeology, 14C, and Egyptian chronology

Hendrik J. Bruins, Johannes van der Plicht & J. Alexander MacGillivray Radiocarbon 51.2 (September 2009): 397-411.

Deposits from the Minoan Santorini (Thera) eruption in the eastern Mediterranean region constitute the most important regional stratigraphic marker in the chronological perplexity of the 2nd millennium BC. Extensive tsunami deposits were discovered in Crete at the Minoan archaeological site of Palaikastro, containing reworked volcanic Santorini ash. Hence, airborne deposition of volcanic ash, probably during the 1st (Plinian) eruption phase, preceded the tsunami, which was apparently generated during the 3rd or 4th phase of the eruption, based on evidence from Thera.

A Reappraisal of the dendrochronology and dating of Tille Höyük (1993)

Carol B. Griggs & Sturt W. Manning Radiocarbon 51.2 (September 2009): 711-720.

The results of a tentative oak tree-ring chronology built from charcoal samples found in Late Bronze to early Iron Age contexts (late 2nd to early 1st millennium BC) at the site of Tille Höyük in southeast Turkey, and its placement in time, was published in 1993 (Summers 1993).

Review of A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World

Nakassis, D. The Classical Review

Nakassis, D., 2009. Review of Y. Duhoux & A. Morpurgo Davies (eds), A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World. Volume 1 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Paris and Dudley, MA: Éditions Peeters, 2008), The Classical Review (New Series), Volume 59, Issue 02, October 2009: 327-329.

Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques

J.W. Shaw Padova

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.

Excavations at Politiko Kokkinorotsos. A Chalcolithic hunting station in Cyprus

Jennifer M. Webb, David Frankel, Paul Croft & Carole McCartney Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 75 (2009): 189-237.

Recent excavations at a small Chalcolithic site in central Cyprus show that it was occupied about 2880-2670 cal BC. Fallow deer form the major component of the substantial faunal sample: both these and other animals were hunted. The chipped stone, too, fits with a model of intensive meat exploitation.

Review of Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism

Galanakis, Y. The Art Newspaper

Galanakis, Y., 2009. Review of C. Gere, Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism (Chicago 2009), The Art Newspaper, vol. XVIII, no. 208 (December 2009), 44.

Anaskamma. Excavating Journal, vol. 3, 2009

Thessaloniki

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).

Review of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus

Katsarou-Tzaveleki, S. Mediterraenean Archaeology & Archaeometry

Katsarou-Tzaveleki, S., 2009. ‘Building and applying “Insular Theory”: Review of Knapp’s Prehistoric and Protohistoric Cyprus, 2008’, Mediterraenean Archaeology & Archaeometry 9 (No. 1, 2009): 123-128.

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Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism

Cathy Gere Chicago

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

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’.