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BOOK REVIEWS | 2010

Review of Asine III: Supplementary Studies on the Swedish Investigations 1922-1930. Fasc. 2, Children Lost and Found: A Bioarchaeological Study of Middle Helladic Children in Asine with a Comparison to Lerna

Becker, M.J. American Journal of Archaeology

Becker, M.J., 2010. Online review of Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström, Asine III: Supplementary Studies on the Swedish Investigations 1922-1930. Fasc. 2, Children Lost and Found: A Bioarchaeological Study of Middle Helladic Children in Asine with a Comparison to Lerna (Stockholm 2008), American Journal of Archaeology 114.3 (July 2010).

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Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess. A Near Eastern Koine

Nanno Marinatos Urbana

Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess. A Near Eastern Koine Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbors. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece’s glory, Nanno Marinatos considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south.

Review of New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece

Ingvarsson-Sundström, A. American Journal of Archaeology

Ingvarsson-Sundström, A., 2010. Online review of L.A. Schepartz, S.C. Fox & C. Bourbou (eds), New Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece (Princeton, N.J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2009), American Journal of Archaeology 114.2 (April).

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Review of The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age

Kyriakidis, E. The Classical Review

Kyriakidis, E., 2010. Review of C.W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), The Classical Review (New Series) 60.1 (April): 257-259.

Paleoenvironmental evolution and prehistoric human environment, in the embayment of Palamari (Skyros Island, Greece) during Middle-Late Holocene

Kosmas Pavlopoulos, Maria Triantaphyllou, Panagiotis Karkanas, Katerina Kouli, George Syrides, Kostantinos Vouvalidis, Nikos Palyvos, Theodora Tsourou Quaternary International 216.1-2 (1 April 2010): 41-53.

Palamari Bay is located on the northeastern coast of Skyros Island (Sporades Islands, Aegean Sea). At the northern edge of the bay a fortified prehistoric settlement is found, dated between 2800 and 1700 BC (Early Bronze Age II–Middle Bronze Age I). Detailed geomorphological mapping of the coastal alluvial plain and paleontological, micropaleontological, palynological, sedimentological and micromorphological studies of the Holocene coastal deposits have been conducted in order to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment and the landscape evolution of the broader area of Palamari Bay.

14C dating of the Early to Late Bronze Age stratigraphic sequence of Aegina Kolonna, Greece

E.M. Wild, W. Gauß, G. Forstenpointner, M. Lindblom, R. Smetana, P. Steier, U. Thanheiser, F. Weninger Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 268.7-8 (April 2010): 1013-1021.

Aegina Kolonna, located in the center of the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Mediterranean (Greece), is one of the major archaeological sites of the Aegean Bronze Age with a continuous stratigraphic settlement sequence from the Late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age. Due to its position next to the maritime cross roads between central mainland Greece, the northeast Peloponnese, the Cyclades and Crete, the island played an important role in the trade between these regions.

A new type of Early Iron Age fibula from Albania and Northwest Greece

John K. Papadopoulos Hesperia 79.2 (April 2010): 233-252.

This article presents a hitherto unknown type of Early Iron Age fibula from Lofkënd in Albania, together with related examples from Kënet in northeastern Albania and Liatovouni in northwestern Greece. Dubbed the “Lofkënd type”, this group of fibulae can be securely dated to the late 10th or 9th century BC. The author discusses the evidence provided by archaeological context, as well as the date, distribution, and cultural affinities of the new type.

Holocene palaeoenvironmental changes in Agia Paraskevi prehistoric settlement, Lamia, Central Greece

K. Vouvalidis, G. Syrides, K. Pavlopoulos, M. Papakonstantinou, P. Tsourlos Quaternary International 216.1-2 (1 April 2010): 64-74.

Holocene palaeoenvironmental changes in the area of the prehistoric settlement of Megali Vrysi close to the village of Agia Paraskevi in Central Greece, 5 km east of Lamia City, were investigated. The area is situated in the low flat alluvial plain on the outskirts of Sperchios Valley that is bordered NNW to ENE by a rocky, hilly ridge of the Othrys Mountain foothills, 5.5 km away from the present coastline.

Paleoenvironmental changes since 3000 BC in the coastal marsh of Vravron (Attica, SE Greece)

M.V. Triantaphyllou, K. Kouli, T. Tsourou, O. Koukousioura, K. Pavlopoulos, M.D. Dermitzakis Quaternary International 216.1-2 (1 April 2010): 14-22.

The coastal area of the Vravron Bay, in the vicinity of the homonym archaeological site, is a marshy plain located on the eastern part of the Attica Peninsula (eastern Greece). In order to provide evidence for palaeoenvironmental changes and landscape evolution of the area, detailed micropaleontological, palynological and sedimentological analyses have been conducted at the underlying Late Holocene coastal deposits. The recovered sediments (lithostratigraphic Units A–D) represent a continuous record of the environmental history of the area since the Early Bronze Age, covering all subsequent historical periods.