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ARTICLES | 2010

Practicing Identity: A Crafty Ideal?

A. Brysbaert & M. Vetters Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 10.2 (2010): 25-43.

This paper focuses on the materialization of technological practices as a form of identity expression. Contextual analyses of a Mycenaean workshop area in the Late Bronze Age citadel of Tiryns (Argolis, Greece) are presented to investigate the interaction of different artisans under changing socio‐political and economic circumstances.

Shells from Sarepta (Lebanon) and East Mediterranean purple-dye production

D.S. Reese Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 10.1 (2010): 113-141.

This paper concerns the shells from the 1969-74 excavations at Sarepta (Lebanon) under the direction of the late J.B. Pritchard (University of Pennsylvania). Most of the 500 marine shells, ranging in date from the LB I to Roman/Byzantine, are typical Mediterranean forms.

Isotopic evidence for the primary production, provenance and trade of Late Bronze Age glass in the Mediterranean

J. Henderson, J. Evans & K. Nikita Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 10.1 (2010): 1-24.

The earliest known man made glass comes from Mesopotamia and dates to the 23rd century BC. By the 16th century BC the first glass vessels appear in Mesopotamia, but the earliest evidence for the fusion of glass from raw materials has been found at the 13th century BC Egyptian site of Qantir.

Flexible Stones. Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave

Anna Stroulia Bloomington & Indianapolis

Flexible Stones. Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave

Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. As a consequence of this oversight the potential for this material to illuminate aspects of prehistoric life remains unexplored.

The Minoan ‘Palace-Temple’ reconsidered: A Critical assessment of the spatial concentration of political, religious and economic power in Bronze Age Crete

Ilse Schoep Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23.2 (2010): 219-243.

Although aspects of Arthur Evans’s vision of Minoan society have undergone modification during the course of the 20th century, his basic interpretation of the monumental building complex with courts at Knossos as a Palace-Temple, or the residence of both a political and religious authority, remains the dominant paradigm in Minoan archaeology.

Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and Its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete

Andonis Vasilakis & Keith Branigan Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and Its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete This volume presents the final report on the excavation of two Prepalatial tholos tombs and their associated remains at Chatzinas Liophyto near the Moni Odigitria (monastery) in south-central Crete. The grave goods and burial remains include pottery, metal objects, chipped stones, stone vases, gold and stone jewelry, sealstones, and human skeletal material. The results of the associated survey of the upper catchment of the Hagiopharango region are also reported.