David Michael SmithChildhood in the Past: An International Journal 4.1 (Summer 2011): 46-62.
This paper utilises the fragmentary child mortuary record of the Early Helladic Peloponnese to approach the social identity of children during this period.
Mercourios GeorgiadisChildhood in the Past: An International Journal 4.1 (Summer 2011): 31-45.
The treatment of children during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in southern Greece can provide us with a rare insight of age differentiations, social practices and beliefs in these early periods. The diachronic presentation and analysis of this particular group of burials will provide a better understanding of the social and conceptual changes the role of children had in these communities.
In this paper, claims that Cypro-Minoan inscriptions have been found in Philistia are discussed and evaluated. First, an overview of Cypro-Minoan is presented, including discussions of Masson’s division of the script into four varieties, the evidence for her divisions, the reasons for the scarceness of Cypro-Minoan clay documents, and the purposes for which the script was apparently used.
K.Douka, C. Perlès, H. Valladas, M. Vanhaeren & R.E.M. HedgesAntiquity 85.330 (December 2011): 1131-1150.
The Aurignacian, traditionally regarded as marking the beginnings of Sapiens in Europe, is notoriously hard to date, being almost out of reach of radiocarbon. Here the authors return to the stratified sequence in the Franchthi Cave, chronicle its lithic and shell ornament industries and, by dating humanly-modified material, show that Franchthi was occupied either side of the Campagnian Ignimbrite super-eruption around 40000 years ago.
Catherine Perlès, Turan Takaoğlu & Bernard GratuzeJournal of Field Archaeology 36.1 (March 2011): 42-49.
Archaeological investigations carried out at the Early Neolithic coastal site of Coşkuntepe in northwestern Turkey yielded an assemblage of 110 obsidian artifacts displaying the macroscopic characteristics of the well-known obsidian deposits on the Cycladic island of Melos.
Carla GalloriniIn 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
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.
Anastasia GadolouThe Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 247-273
The terracotta model presented in this article depicts the roof of a small temple or naiskos. It was discovered during the excavation of a Late Geometric apsidal temple, probably dedicated to Poseidon Heliconius, at Nikoleika near Aegion.
Erophile KoliaThe Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 201-246
The article presents an apsidal temple excavated by the 6th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities at Nikoleika, in the chora of ancient Helike.
Yannis GalanakisThe 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.
Joseph W. ShawThe 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.
Žarko Tankosić & Iro MathioudakiThe Annual of the British School at Athens 106 (2011): 99-140
In this paper we present the unpublished finds from the survey of Ayios Nikolaos Mylon. The site is located on one of the foothills of Mount Ochi, on a strategic defensive position overlooking the Bay of Karystos.
This “draft” unravels the story of the “lady of Karamourlar”, a figurine found at the Neolithic site of Magoula Karamourlar, excavated by D. R. Theocharis during the 70s.
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.
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.
