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BOOKS | 2009

The Formation of Cyprus in the 2nd Millennium B.C. Proceedings of a Workshop held at the 4th Cyprological Congress May 2nd, 2008, Lefkosia, Cyprus

Edited by Irmgard Hein Wien 2009

The Formation of Cyprus in the 2nd Millennium B.C. Proceedings of a Workshop held at the 4th Cyprological Congress May 2nd, 2008, Lefkosia, Cyprus Many questions about the Middle and Late Cypriot Bronze Age remain unanswered, especially those concerned with chronology, social transformation and the development of local entities or industries. The title of this collection of papers “The Formation of Cyprus” was chosen to emphasize the fact that local community activities and trade on a local scale had a considerable influence on island-wide development and, in this instance, on the formation of society in the Bronze Age.

Sparta, Menelaion I: The Bronze Age

H. W. Catling London 2009

Sparta, Menelaion I: The Bronze Age This is the account of an excavation by the British School at Athens at the major Mycenaean settlement in the central Eurotas valley of Laconia, close to the site of ancient and modern Sparta, in the south-central Peloponnese. The site was first identified and partly explored by the British School (under its sixth Director, R. M. Dawkins) in 1909-10. This volume presents the results of fieldwork undertaken by the School in 1973-77, 1980 and 1985, led by the then Director, H. W. Catling.

From Mesogeia to Argosaronikos. B΄ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Research of a decade, 1994-2003. Proceedings of Conference, Athens, December 18-20, 2003

Edited by Vivi Vassilopoulou and Stella Katsarou-Tzeveleki Markopoulo of Mesogeia 2009

From Mesogeia to Argosaronikos. B΄ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Research of a decade, 1994-2003. Proceedings of Conference, Athens, December 18-20, 2003 A collection of 40 papers (and one inaugural address) from the conference From Mesogeia to Argosaronikos, held in Athens on 18-20 December 2003. The book presents recent excavations and finds conducted by the Second Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in Attica, Piraeus, Troezen and the islands of Kythera and Antikythera during the decade 1994-2003 (since then the Second Ephorate has been divided into two Ephorates). The papers are presented following a geographical sequence. All papers are in Greek, followed by abstracts in English.

Forces of Transformation: The End of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Symposium held at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, 25-6th March 2006

Edited by Christoph Bachhuber and R. Gareth Roberts Oxford 2009

Forces of Transformation: The End of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Symposium held at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, 25-6th March 2006 The volume is the first in nearly a decade to focus a wide range of scholarship on one of the most compelling periods in the antiquity of the Mediterranean and Near East. It presents new interpretive approaches to the problems of the Bronze Age to Iron Age transformation, as well as re-assessments of a wide range of high profile sites and evidence ranging from the Ugaritic archives, Hazor, the Medinet Habu reliefs, Tiryns and Troy. Implications for a changing climate are also explored in the volume.

Proceedings of the Symposium ‘Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the Eastern Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity’, 07.-08. 05. 2008 in Munich

Verein zur Förderung der Aufarbeitung der Hellenischen Geschichte e.V. (επιμέλεια) Weilheim 2009

Proceedings of the Symposium ‘Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the Eastern Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity’, 07.-08. 05. 2008 in Munich On May 7 & 8, 2008 a symposium was held at the Gasteig in Munich - Germany, on the topic Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the Eastern Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity. The Symposium was an initiative of the Society for the Study and Propagation of Hellenic History, based in Weilheim - Germany, which has organized several scientific gatherings in the past on philology and archaeology. Co-organizers were Verein Ägais (The Aegean Club), Munich.

Use of space in a Neolithic village in Greece (Makri): Phytolith analysis and comparison of phytolith assemblages from an ethnographic setting in the same area

Georgia Tsartsidou, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Nikos Efstratiou & Steve Weiner Journal of Archaeological Science 36.10 (October 2009): 2342-2352.

Phytolith analyses were conducted in a pottery Neolithic village (Makri) of Northern Greece in order to reconstruct aspects of past human activities as a function of both space and time. The analyses of phytolith assemblages were based on a reference collection of modern plant phytoliths, as well as an ethnographic study in an agropastoral community (Sarakini) in the same area that showed that many phytolith assemblages are characteristic of the activities carried out in different locations within and around the village.

Of stamps, loom weights and spindle whorls: Contextual evidence on the function(s) of Neolithic stamps from Ulucak, İzmir, Turkey

Çiler Çilingiroğlu Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1 (2009): 3-27.

This study discusses the function(s) of Neolithic stamps and their designs by using two different lines of evidence. The function of the artifact itself is considered by using contextual information from the Neolithic site of Ulucak Höyük, located in the vicinity of İzmir in western Turkey. It will be argued that the co-occurrence of stamps with objects related to textile manufacturing – e.g. bone needles, spindle whorls and loom weights – at Ulucak allows us to interpret their function as stamps to make patterns, among other cultural media, on woven fabrics.

Considering living-beings in the Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus

Paula Louise Jones Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1 (2009): 75-99.

This paper seeks to provide an alternative perspective on the portrayal of as exclusively ‘resources’ in the existing archaeological literature; it also re examines the relationships between humans and non-human animals in the Early Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus.

The construction of Mycenaean Tholoi

Maria Teresa Como Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History, Cottbus, (May 2009): 385-392.

The masonry dome, vaulted by means of the corbelling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, characterizes the Mycenaean tholos. The results, achieved researching the way by which the ‘Treasury of Atreus’ dome performs the actual condition of equilibrium and through the compilation of a complete survey, pointed out the display of the true-dome behaviour.

Mesolithic sites and surveys in Greece: A case study from the southern Argolid

Curtis Runnels Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1 (2009): 57-73.

Regional surveys in Greece have only rarely identified Mesolithic sites, which consist typically of small, unobtrusive scatters of microlithic artifacts. Recently, a site location model was used along with targeted surveys to identify Mesolithic sites in the Argolid, Epirus, and the Sporades, and the results suggest that the Mesolithic may have been overlooked in some early surveys because, in part, the characteristic features of Mesolithic assemblages were unknown at the time.

FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Crete, Rethymno, 2-5 June 2005

Edited by Katerina Kopaka Liège / Austin

FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Crete, Rethymno, 2-5 June 2005 Twenty-nine papers are presented from the eponymous June 2005 conference run by the University of Crete as part of an interdisciplinary program on Gender in Social Sciences. Written by archaeologists of the prehistoric Aegean and wider Mediterranean, the papers focus on the issue of gender in the archaeology of the Bronze Age, as well as of the Neolithic and Upper Palaeolithic periods.

Santorini: Volcano, Natural History, Mythology

Walter L. Friedrich Aarhus

Santorini: Volcano, Natural History, Mythology This is a completely new and revised edition of Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano, Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis (originally published by Cambridge University Press, 2000). When the Greek island of Santorini, classically known as Thera, dramatically erupted in 1613 BC 13 years, it produced one of the largest explosions ever witnessed, thereby possibly giving rise to the legend of Atlantis. This so-called ‘Minoan’ eruption triggered tsunamis that devastated coastal settlements in the region. On Santorini it left behind a Bronze Age Pompeii, which is now being excavated.

Tsunami waves generated by the Santorini eruption reached eastern Mediterranean shores

Beverly N. Goodman-Tchernov, Hendrik W. Dey, Eduard G. Reinhardt, Floyd McCoy & Yossi Mart Geology 37 (2009): 943-946.

A sedimentary deposit on the continental shelf off Caesarea Maritima, Israel, is identified, dated, and attributed to tsunami waves produced during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1630–1550 B.C.) eruption of Santorini, Greece. The sheet-like deposit was found as a layer as much as 40 cm thick in four cores collected from 10 to 20 m water depths. Particle-size distribution, planar bedding, shell taphoecoensis, dating (radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence, and pottery), and comparison of the horizon to more recent tsunamigenic layers distinguish it from normal storm and typical marine conditions across a wide (>1 km2) lateral area.

Palaeolithic industries from the island of Gavdos, near neighbour to Crete in Greece

Katerina Kopaka & Christos Matzanas Antiquity 83.321 (September 2009): online article

Gavdos lies in the Libyan Sea, approximately 21 nautical miles (nm) off the closest south-west Cretan shores and is the south-easternmost European territory before Africa - Libya/Tobruk is c. 160nm away. This is an easily targeted landfall of almost 33km², with an irregular terrain, rising up to 368m. The island offers anchorages along the north, east and south coasts. North of Gavdos is a stepping stone, Gavdopoula (Little Gavdos).

Ein Trojanischer Federkrieg: Die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Ernst Boetticher und Heinrich Schliemann

Michaela Zavadil Wien

Ein Trojanischer Federkrieg: Die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Ernst Boetticher und Heinrich Schliemann In December 1883, a dispute began between Ernst Boetticher and Heinrich Schliemann over the latter’s interpretation of his research in Troy. After studying Schliemann’s book on his excavations in Troy, published in November 1880, Boetticher was convinced that Schliemann had misinterpreted the excavation results and had not found a settlement, but a fire-necropolis.