BOOK REVIEWS | 2011
Kramer-Hajos, M.
American Journal of Archaeology
Kramer-Hajos, M., 2011. Online review of D. Danielidou, Ανασκαφές Μυκηνών ΙΙ: Το “Εργαστήριο” των Μυκηνών (Athens 2008), American Journal of Archaeology 115.1 (January).
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Kuniholm, P.I.
American Journal of Archaeology
Kuniholm, P.I., 2011. Online review of P. Degryse & M. Waelkens (eds), Sagalassos VI: Geo- and Bio-Archaeology at Sagalassos and in Its Territory (Leuven 2008), American Journal of Archaeology 115.1 (January).
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Maria Anastasiadou
Darmstadt/Mainz
The study examines the Middle Minoan three-sided soft stone prism – hereafter referred to simply as prism. 625 examples of these seals known to date serve as the basis for the research. The goals of the study are twofold: firstly to assess the place of the prism in soft stone MM glyptic; and secondly, to examine and analyse prism iconography.
Eric H. Cline, Assaf Yasur-Landau & Nurith Goshen
American Journal of Archaeology 115.2 (2011): 245-261.
During the 2008 and 2009 excavations at Tel Kabri, more than 100 new fragments of wall and floor plaster were uncovered. Approximately 60 are painted, probably belonging to a second Aegean-style wall fresco with figural representations and a second Aegean-style painted floor.
Timothy Earle
American Journal of Archaeology 115.2 (2011): 237-244.
Whether the Bronze Age Aegean economies can be described as “redistributive” depends on how one defines the term. The concept of redistribution itself has undergone several decades of critical archaeological analysis, much of it stemming from my early work in Polynesia.
Paul Halstead
American Journal of Archaeology 115.2 (2011): 229-235.
Nakassis et al., in their contribution to this Forum, argue that the term “redistribution” has been used with a range of meanings in the context of the Aegean Bronze Age and so obscures rather than illuminates the emergence and functioning of political economies.
Robert Schon
American Journal of Archaeology115.2 (2011): 219-227.
Rather than treating redistribution as an undifferentiated economic function, scholars currently recognize that multiple forms may occur simultaneously. In this Forum Article, I focus on one such form in detail, specifically, the redistributive system that financed the production of prestige goods at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. I employ the manufacture of chariots, perfumed oils, and textiles as case studies.
Susan Lupack
American Journal of Archaeology115.2 (2011): 207-217.
The Linear B offering tablets at first seem to indicate that Mycenaean palaces engaged in a form of redistribution with respect to the religious sphere. That the palace sent offerings caused many scholars to assume the religious sector was dependent on the palaces for its daily maintenance.
Kostis S. Christakis
American Journal of Archaeology115.2 (2011): 197-205.
Palatial authorities in Bronze Age Crete traditionally are thought to have functioned as centralized redistributive agents, reallocating wealth to the community as a whole and providing security in times of crisis. These institutions were gradually transformed, however, into mobilizers of wealth, rendering support exclusively to the elite and their associates.
Daniel J. Pullen
American Journal of Archaeology115.2 (2011): 185-195.
This article examines redistribution as formulated by scholars of the later Mycenaean palatial economies to ascertain its applicability to the Early Bronze Age (EBA) mainland. Lacking textual sources in the EBA, the emphasis is on archaeological correlates of redistribution as both a mode of transaction and as an institution.
Dimitri Nakassis, William A. Parkinson & Michael L. Galaty
American Journal of Archaeology115.2115.2 (2011): 177-184.
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such. We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading.
Creasman, P.P. & Bannister, B.
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Creasman, P.P. & Bannister, B., 2011. Review of S.W. Manning & M.J. Bruce (eds), Tree-rings, Kings, and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm (Oxford 2009), Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3.1: 5-6.
Cadogan, G.
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Cadogan, G., 2011. Review of N. Marinatos, Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine (Urbana 2010), Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 3.1: 3-4.
Michael L. Galaty, Dimitri Nakassis & William A. Parkinson
American Journal of Archaeology115.2 (2011): 175-176.
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies. The term ‘redistribution’ was coined to describe a particular mode of economic exchange employed in ancient economies, particularly Near Eastern temple economies, and later applied to the Aegean.
Jeffrey M. Hurwit
American Journal of Archaeology 115.1 (2011): 1-18.
The once-popular interpretation of a well-known scene on a Late Geometric oinochoe in Munich as the shipwreck of Odysseus is now regularly dismissed: like other ambiguous scenes of late eighth-century art, it has been banished from the ranks of early mythological narratives.
