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ARTICLES | 2009

Burial pithoi of a Geometric cemetery at the site of Trapeza in Aegium (in Greek)

Αναστασία Γκαδόλου Annuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene 2007 [2009]: 11-32.

Twelve funerary pithoi were excavated on the site of Trapeza, near Aegium, in Achaea. Pottery, bronze and iron jewellery as well as iron weapons were identified amongst the funerary gifts. The typological analysis of the grave offerings leads to the chronology of the pithoi from the latest years of the Protogeometric down to the Late Geometric period.

I sigilli del “Gruppo del suonatore di lira” dalla stipe dell’Athenaion di Jalysos (Lyre-Player Group seals from the repository of the Athenaion of Ialysos)

Μ.Α. Rizzo Annuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene 2007 [2009]: 33-82.

The repository of the sanctuary of Athana Ialysia at Rhodes, excavated between 1923 and 1926, yielded more than 6300 pieces and is thus the most important on the island. The offerings date from the middle of the eighth to the end of the fourth century BC. Among these materials is an especially interesting group of seals of the Lyre-Player Group, comprising all of 27 specimens.

La ceramica fine del MM IIA di Festòs (The ceramic phase of MM IIA at Phaistos)

Ilaria Caloi Annuario della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene 2007 [2009]: 303-330.

The aim of this article is the presentation of the MM IIA ceramic phase of Protopalatial Phaistos. Since 1994, V. La Rosa and F. Carinci have been directing a new programme of excava­tions and revision of 1950-1966 Levi’s work at Phaistos, with support from the Italian Archaeological School in Athens

Iklaina archaeological project 2009 season. Internet report

Michael B. Cosmopoulos Online article

The third excavation season of the Iklaina project took place for six weeks from May 29 to July 8, 2009. The project was conducted under the auspices of the Athens Archaeological Society and funded by the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Chair in Greek Studies of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Loeb Classical Library Foundation.

Review of Taureador Scenes in Tell El-Dab’a (Avaris) and Knossos

Shaw, M.C. American Journal of Archaeology

Shaw, M.C., 2009. ‘A Bull-Leaping Fresco from the Nile Delta and a Search for Patrons and Artists’. Review of M. Bietak, N. Marinatos & C. Palivou, with a contribution by A. Brysbaert, Taureador Scenes in Tell El-Dab’a (Avaris) and Knossos (Vienna 2007), American Journal of Archaeology 113.3 (July): 471-477.

Review of Taureador Scenes in Tell El-Dab’a (Avaris) and Knossos

Younger, J.G., American Journal of Archaeology

Younger, J.G., 2009.  ‘The Bull-Leaping Scenes from Tell el-Dab’a’. Review of M. Bietak, N. Marinatos & C. Palivou, with a contribution by A. Brysbaert, Taureador Scenes in Tell El-Dab’a (Avaris) and Knossos (Vienna 2007), American Journal of Archaeology 113.3 (July): 479-480.

Review of Horizon: OPIZΩN. A Colloquium on the Cyclades

Schallin, A.-L. American Journal of Archaeology

Schallin, A.-L., 2009. Review of N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas & C. Renfrew (eds), Horizon: OPIZΩN. A Colloquium on the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008), American Journal of Archaeology 113.3 (July): 486-487.

The Tumuli of Argos (in Greek)

E. Protonotariou-Deilaki (edited by Helen Morou-Kapokaki) Athens

The Tumuli of Argos (in Greek) The book is a posthumous publication of the Ph.D. dissertation of Evaggelia Protonotariou-Deilaki (†2002) (submitted in 1980 at the University of Athens). The publication, edited by Helen Morou-Kapokaki, was based on photographic material that was found in Deilaki’s archive donated by her daughter Maria to the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology of Southern Greece. The dissertation focuses on Middle and Late Helladic cemeteries that were excavated by Protonotariou-Deilaki in Argos during the 1970s. The cemeteries according to the author were tumuli. The book includes unknown and precious photographs.

Warfare in Neolithic Thessaly: A case study

Curtis N. Runnels, Claire Payne, Noam V. Rifkind, Chantel White, Nicholas P. Wolff & Steven A. LeBlanc Hesperia 78 (2009): 165-194.

Cross-cultural archaeological and ethnographic evidence for warfare in farming societies invites us to reconsider the traditional picture of the Greek Neolithic (ca. 7000-3400 B.C.) as a period of peaceful coexistence among subsistence farmers. Archaeological correlates of intercommunal conflict in the prehistoric American Southwest and the widespread evidence for warfare in Neolithic Europe suggest that warfare is also likely to have taken place in Neolithic Greece. The well-known Neolithic record for Thessaly reveals evidence for warfare in defensive structures, weapons, and settlement patterns.

New reconstructions of the “Mykenaia” and a seated woman from Mycenae

Bernice R. Jones American Journal of Archaeology 113 (2009): 309-338.

Abstract

This study presents evidence for reconstructing two frescoes, including the well-known “Mykenaia”, found at the Southwest Building at Mycenae. It argues that the “Mykenaia” did not depict a seated goddess facing right but a life-sized, standing woman striding to the left and that the other fresco portrays a half-life-sized enthroned woman, likely a goddess, facing right and holding a

Royal gift exchange between Mycenae and Egypt: Olives as “greeting gifts” in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean

Jorrit M. Kelder American Journal of Archaeology 113 (2009): 339-352.

Contact between Egypt and the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age, especially the relationship between Minoan Crete and New Kingdom Egypt, has been the subject of numerous studies. The relationship between the Greek (Mycenaean) mainland and Egypt is generally regarded as a more elusive topic, and most scholars seem to consider interaction between the two, as a matter of irregular exchange via middlemen (e.g., via Cyprus or the Levant), rather than direct contact.

From metallurgy to Bronze Age civilizations: The synthetic theory

Nissim Amzallag American Journal of Archaeology 113 (2009): 497-519.

During the past few decades, evidence for the ancient smelting of copper has been discovered in areas isolated from one another. In most of them, the beginning of metallurgy had no substantial social and cultural consequences.

Christos Tsountas (1857-1934) (in Greek)

Βασίλειος Πετράκος Mentor 91 (April 2009): 6-34.

The article, written in Greek, presents a brief biography of one of the most important Greek archaeologists, Christos Tsountas. It refers to his studies, his relation with another Greek prominent archaeologist Stephanos Koumanoudis, his appointment to the Archaeological Society at Athens as well as to the Greek Archaeological Ephorate, and lastly his first publications.