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BOOK REVIEWS | 2011

Prehistoric Crete. Regional and Diachronic Studies on Mortuary Systems

Edited by Joanne M.A. Murphy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Prehistoric Crete. Regional and Diachronic Studies on Mortuary Systems Since the inception of Minoan archaeology, studies pertaining to tombs and tomb deposits have played seminal roles in our understanding of Minoan culture and the reconstruction of Bronze Age society. For several geographical areas and chronological periods of Cretan history, tombs are the most abundant source of data.

Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday

Edited by Walter Gauss, Michael Lindblom, R.A.K. Smith & James C. Wright Oxford

Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age. Papers Presented to Jeremy B. Rutter on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday Most of us first encounter Festschriften when in graduate school. In the seminar at Bryn Mawr they were all grouped together on several shelves. There I became accustomed to expect, upon opening one, to see a formal photograph of a mature to ageing scholar in a formal suit or dress. Nowadays we generally have dispensed with these formalities, in part because of our changing use of the camera and perception of what the image should convey.

The strangeness of Crete. Problems for the protohistory of Greek religion

Matthew Haysom in Matthew Haysom & Jenny Wallensten (eds), Current approaches to religion in ancient Greece. Papers presented at a symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17-19 April 2008 (Stockholm, 2011): 95-110.

Scholarship on Cretan religion has always emphasized the islands oddity. It emerges from the literature as a land of suckling and dying gods, prehistoric practices, and tribal initiation rites.

Η εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία. Οι Αρχαιολόγοι και οι ανασκαφές 1837-2011 (catalogue of the exhibition)

Vasileios Petrakos Athens

Η εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία. Οι Αρχαιολόγοι και οι ανασκαφές 1837-2011 (catalogue of the exhibition) Η Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία έχει ως κύριο έργο της την έρευνα και δημοσίευση των μνημείων της αρχαιότητος από τα απώτερα προϊστορικά χρόνια έως σήμερα. Το έργο της των 174 ετών που πέρασαν από την ίδρυσή της είναι το αποτέλεσμα της μελέτης και των προσπαθειών πολλών ανθρώπων, φιλάρχαιων και αρχαιολόγων.

Review of Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen – The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age, Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes (8-12 mars 2006)

Orgeolet, R. Histara les comptes rendus

Orgeolet, R., 2011. Online review of P. Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki & J. Wright (eds), Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen – The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age, Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes (8-12 mars 2006) (Athènes 2010), Histara les comptes rendus.

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Review of Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies

Button, S. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.10.49.

Button, S., 2011. Online review of A. Sampson (ed.), The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies (Philadelphia 2011), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.10.49.

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