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BOOKS | 2009

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Archaeologies of Cult: Essays on Ritual and Cult in Crete

Edited by Anna Lucia D’Agata, Aleydis van de Moortel & M.B. Richardson Princeton 2009

Twenty-five years after Colin Renfrew’s seminal book, The Archaeology of Cult, was published, the study of ritual and religion in Crete remains one of the most vital and debated areas of research in Old World prehistory. For the present volume, 25 specialists in the archaeology of the island have been invited to bring the subject up to date. Their multivocalist discourse ranges in time from the Bronze to the Iron Age and includes, in five diverse sections, unpublished finds, theoretically-informed discussion of ritual behavior, and innovative reconstructions of sacred landscapes.

Khania (Kydonia). Α Tour to Sites of Ancient Memory

Edited by Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki Khania 2009

The city of Khania is rightly proud to be included among cities with a long history and especially cities where excavations have revealed a continuous habitation in successive occupation layers. It is the only city of modern Crete which digs up so many memories every day and brings to light so many traces of its distant past. Traces erased and erased, like a palimpsest, but always leaving readable and recognizable impression. This is how the reconstitution of the unique architectural palimpsest of the city of Khania began, which has been described as a city of Mediterranean architecture. At the same time, it is one of the most ancient cities of the Mediterranean and the whole of Europe, a description that is supported by the existence of an organized settlement of “urban” character as early as the third millennium B.C.

Documenta Praehistorica XXXVI. 16th Neolithic Studies

Edited by Mihael Budja Ljubljana 2009

The 16th Neolithic Studies anthology comprises seventeen selected papers presented at the fifteenth Neolithic Seminar Climate Anomalies, Population and Culture Dynamics in Prehistory that took place at the Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana in November 2008.

Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel VI (2 vols)

Helen Hughes-Brock with John Boardman Mainz 2009

These volumes publish the 516 Minoan and Mycenaean seals in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Although many have been previously published, this publication is far more comprehensive than any which precede it and several artefacts previously considered doubtful or fake have been re-examined and rehabilitated. The seals are each illustrated and photographed with descriptions, commentary, comparanda and bibliographies.

The Past in the Past: The Significance of Memory and Tradition in the Transmission of Culture

Edited by Mercourios Georgiadis & Chrysanthi Gallou Oxford 2009

The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 12th European Archaeological Association conference at Krakow in Poland, in September 2006, titled The Past in the Past: The Significance of Memory and Tradition in the Transmission of Culture. In the papers presented in this session as well as in the chapters presented in this volume there were three central concepts, which were very closely linked and interrelated, memory, tradition and identity. It became apparent that there were various ways in which they were perceived and consciously exploited within different societies.

ΚΕΡΜΑΤΙΑ ΦΙΛΙΑΣ – Studies in Honour of Ioannis Touratsoglou (2 vols)

Edited by S. Drougou, D. Evgenidou, Ch. Kritzas, N. Kaltsas, B. Penna, I. Tsourti, M. Galani-Krikou & E. Ralli Athens 2009

Ioannis Touratsoglou follows the long tradition of the Directors of the Numismatic Museum, who have been recognised as academics with a strong personality. These volumes are a small token, in return for his contribution to the Museum. The participation of many different colleagues, from a variety of academic fields, reflects the appreciation, friendship and recognition of Touratsoglou among them.

Art and Society in Cyprus from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age

Joanna S. Smith Cambridge 2009

Dramatic social and political change marks the period from the end of the Late Bronze Age into the Iron Age (ca. 1300–700 BC) across the Mediterranean. Inland palatial centres of bureaucratic power weakened or collapsed ca. 1200 BC while entrepreneurial exchange by sea survived and even expanded, becoming the Mediterranean-wide network of Phoenician trade. At the heart of that system was Kition, one of the largest harbour cities of ancient Cyprus. Earlier research has suggested that Phoenician rule was established at Kition after the abandonment of part of its Bronze Age settlement.

Ethnè grecs à l’âge du Bronze. I: Introduction, Abantes-Epéens, II: Etoliens-Thessaliens (2 vols)

Michel B. Sakellariou Athens 2009

L’auteur s’emploie à identifier et situer, dans l’espace et dans le temps, les ethnè grecs apparus avant c.a. 1100/1050 de l’ère préchrétienne, sur la base à la fois d’éléments de tradition et d’indices onomastiques, culturels, institutionnels, dialectaux et autres, tous établis suivant de règles uniformes et après discussion critique détaillée. Les vingt-cinq chapitres, pour autant d’ethnè identifiés, sont précédés d’une introduction touchant : (1) à l’arrivée des Protogrecs, (2) à l’image d’un ethnos grec à l’âge du Bronze, et (3) aux normes à appliquer, et suivis de conclusions générales par trois unités thématiques : (1) description de chaque ethnos identifié, (2) pays où il se laisse repérer et dates respectives, et (3) les étapes de son expansion et, le cas échéant, sa diffusion.

Apiculture in the Prehistoric Aegean. Minoan and Mycenaean Symbols Revisited

Haralampos V. Harissis & Anastasios V. Harissis Oxford 2009

This study surveys the evidence for beekeeping in the Prehistoric Aegean, from references in later literature to archaeological remains of beekeeping paraphernalia, symbolic depictions in jewellery and on seals, and the evidence of folklore and mythology. Finds of hives, smoking pots, honey extractors (some of them identified as such by the authors) and so-on indicate systematic Minoan apiculture, and the authors propose that contra Evans, seals can be reinterpreted as depicting apiculture, rather than religious scenes, and used by overseers of beekeeping, a high-status and highly valued industry.

Euboea and Central Greece

Edited by Andreas G. Vlachopoulos Athens 2009

The second volume Euboea and Central Greece in the series Archaeology completes the circumnavigation of the Aegean islands presented in the first volume; it then moves westwards towards the Ionian Sea, covering the southern part of the Greek Mainland, the region known today as Central Greece or Sterea Ellada. During historical times, this wide geographical region was not a discreet entity with a specific name, as were Thessaly, Epirus or the Peloponnese. Nevertheless, the prefectures of Central Greece (Attica, Boeotia, Phthiotis, Eurytania, Phocis, Aetoloakarnania), that is, the modern administrative-geographical districts, coincide for the greater part of their territory with the ancient regions that in Antiquity were defined as lands of ‘ethne’ or tribes.

The Aegean and its Cultures. Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22-23 April 2005

Edited by Georgios Deligiannakis & Yannis Galanakis Oxford 2009

Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, April 2005.

Minoan Architecture: Materials and Techniques

J.W. Shaw Padova 2009

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.

Anaskamma. Excavating Journal, vol. 3, 2009

Thessaloniki 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).

Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism

Cathy Gere Chicago 2009

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 2009

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’.

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