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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

BOOKS | 2011

Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to the 1st Millennia BC.

Edited by Toby C. Wilkinson, Susan Sherratt & John Bennet Oxford/Oakville 2011

Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to the 1st Millennia BC. How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct.

A Cypriote Sherd from Kahun in Context

Carla Gallorini In D. Aston, B. Bader, C. Gallorini, P. Nicholson & S. Buckingham (eds), Under the Potter’s Tree. Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine, Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday (Leuven – Paris – Walpole: Ultgeverij Peeters, 2011): 397-415.

Amongst the “Aegean pottery” published by Petrie in Illahun, Kahun and Gurob, London 1891, plate I, is the upper part of a Cypriote jug in the White Painted III-IV Pendent Line Style Ware. According to Petrie it “was found alongside of pottery of the 12th dynasty in a deep chamber” somewhere in the town, but Petrie’s failure to illustrate the material found in association with it has led scholars to doubt a Middle Kingdom date for the find

Late Bronze Age Pottery from the Site of Vratitsa, Eastern Bulgaria: Definition, Chronology and its Aegean affinities.

Rositsa Hristova Aegeo-Balkan Prehistory, online article, 18 March 2011

The site is located along the route of the “Trakia” Highway and administratively belongs to the village of Vratitsa, municipality of Kameno. It is situated in the field called Aladinova Chesma (Aladin’s Fountain), 1.5 km northeast of the village. This is an area of low hills and the region is well watered.

The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill

Daniel J. Pullen Princeton

The Early Bronze Age Village on Tsoungiza Hill While "corridor houses" such as the House of the Tiles at Lerna have provoked widespread discussion about the origins of social stratification in Greece, few settlements of the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3100 to 2000 B.C.) have been thoroughly excavated.

Mochlos IIC: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery. The Human Remains and Other Finds.

edited by Jeffrey S. Soles and Costis Davaras Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Mochlos IIC: Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery. The Human Remains and Other Finds. Excavations carried out at the Late Minoan III settlement and cemetery at Mochlos in eastern Crete yielded domestic artifacts, human remains, grave goods, and ecofactual material from 31 tombs and 11 houses. These objects are cataloged, discussed, and illustrated. Radiocarbon dates for the site are also presented.

An unpublished stirrup jar from Athens and the 1871-2 private excavations in the outer Kerameikos

Yannis Galanakis The Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 167-200

This article presents an unpublished stirrup jar from the Outer Kerameikos in Athens. The recently discovered archival material in the University of Oxford associated with the purchase of the stirrup jar helps to contextualise this object, and assess its significance in the light of the 1871–2 private excavations in the Outer Kerameikos.

Tracing the ancestry of the Minoan Hall system

Joseph W. Shaw The Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 141-165

Among the more intriguing Minoan architectural forms is the so-called ‘Minoan Hall’. It consists, at its simplest, of a light well, a fore hall, and a room (polythyron) closed off by what are known as pier-and-door partitions.

Site, Artefacts and Landscape. Prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta

Edited by Davide Tanasi & Nicholas C. Vella Monza

Site, Artefacts and Landscape. Prehistoric Borġ in-Nadur, Malta The Bronze Age of the Maltese archipelago has long been overlooked by archaeologists whose attention has mostly been focused on the Late Neolithic temples. This book attempts to understand the islands’ Bronze Age society in the course of the second millennium BC by exploring the history of Borġ in-Nadur in south-east Malta.

Η «οφθαλμαπάτη» της στρωματογραφίας: Παραδείγματα από τη μαγούλα Ίμβρου Πηγάδι και το Σπήλαιο Θεόπετρας (The “illusion” of stratigraphy: The Neolithic sites of Imvrou Pigadi and Theopetra Cave)

Νίνα Κυπαρίσση-Αποστολίκα Anaskamma 5 (2011): 75-86.

In a stratigraphic sequence where layers usually succeed one another in a parallel sequence sometimes they are irregularly arranged in a way that the succession becomes inexplicable or even overturned.

Στα ίχνη των τελευταίων κυνηγών και τροφοσυλλεκτών της Νοτιοανατολικής Μεσογείου (Following the traces of the last hunter-gatherers of east Mediterranean)

Νίκος Ευστρατίου & Δημήτρης Κυριακού Anaskamma 5 (2011): 53-74.

This paper addresses the potential contribution of archaeological sites and finds from old excavations to the modern archaeological discourse and to improving modern urban life. The discussion is centred around Neolithic Katsambas, a Neolithic hamlet and its adjacent burial rockshelter, excavated by Stylianos Alexiou in the first half of the 1950’s.