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ARTICLES | 2012

Υποβρύχια έρευνα στο σπήλαιο ‘Καθεδρικό’ στο Ακρωτήρι Χανίων (Underwater survey at thecave ‘Kathedriko’at Akrotiri, Chania, Crete)

Χρήστος Σ. Αγουρίδης Enalia. The journal of the Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology XI (2012): 86-91.

During an underwater survey conducted by the diving team of the Ephorate of Paleo­anthropology - Speleology of the Ministry of Culture, a submerged cave was located in the area of Akrotiri, Chania (Crete). The cave has two entrances, one underwater at a depth of 15 meters and the second on land, on the cave’s ceiling, close to the rocky shore.

Ενάλια αρχαιολογική έρευνα στον Αργοσαρωνικό, 2006-2007 (Underwater Archaeological Research in the Argosaronic Gulf, 2006-2007)

Χρήστος Σ. Αγουρίδης Enalia. The journal of the Hellenic Institute of Marine Archaeology XI (2012): 70-85.

During the previous research campaigns (2003 and 2005), the cargo of a Late Bronze shipwreck was located and documented on the north steep bottom of the islet of Modi (Poros). It consists mainly of large transport vessels (pithoi and jars), some of them intact and most of them in fragmentary condition.

The Dams and Water Management Systems of Minoan Pseira

Philip P. Betancourt Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Dams and Water Management Systems of Minoan Pseira When the Temple University archaeological project was excavating at the Bronze Age seaport on Pseira Island and Richard Hope Simpson discovered two massive stone and soil dams that were built in the middle of the second millennium B.C., we knew we had opened a new chapter in prehistoric engineering and water management.

Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions volume 1: Analysis

Silvia Ferrara Oxford/New York

Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions volume 1: Analysis This volume offers the first comprehensive examination of an ancient writing system from Cyprus and Syria known as Cypro-Minoan. After Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, other un-deciphered scripts of the second millennium B.C. from the Aegean world (Linear A) and the Eastern Mediterranean (Cypro-Minoan) became the focus of those trying to crack this ancient and historical code. Despite several attempts for both syllabaries, this prospect has remained unrealized.

“The Greeks: Whence and When?”. The mainstream scientific responses and the present state of research on the first beginning of the Greek civilisation (in Greek)

Theodoros G. Giannopoulos Heraklion

“The Greeks: Whence and When?”. The mainstream scientific responses and the present state of research on the first beginning of the Greek civilisation (in Greek) When does the Greek culture begin? How can we methodologically define its starting-point and locate it in time? To which times and which processes should we trace back the origins of the Greeks of historical antiquity? The present book is a scientific as well as a writing enterprise.

The archaeological evidence of the Late Bronze Age and Protogeometric occupation under the Roman Villa Dionysus, Knossos, Crete, and an overview of the Protogeometric data of Greece

Alexandra Livarda Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 189-209.

Archaeobotanical material was collected from the Bronze Age fill and the Protogeometric phases underneath the Roman Villa Dionysus, Knossos, Crete. The Bronze Age assemblage was poor, representing only accidental intrusions to a tight fill of sherds and stones.

Mycenae revisited. Part 4: Assessing the new data

O.T.P.K. Dickinson, Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, Argyro Nafplioti & A.J.N.W. Prag Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 161-188.

This is the fourth and final part of the series inspired by the rediscovery in 2003 of two skeletons excavated in 1877 in Shaft Grave VI in Circle A at Mycenae by Panayiotis Stamatakis.

New light on the Labyrinth Fresco from the Palace at Knossos

Maria C. Shaw Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 143-159.

Considered here is the ‘Labyrinth Fresco’ (or ‘Maze Fresco’), fragments of which were found by Sir Arthur Evans in the Minoan palace at Knossos. Interestingly, the pattern was rendered through engraving, with the exclusively red colour used applied within the grooves.

Martial Minoans? War as social process, practice and event in Bronze Age Crete

Barry P.C. Molloy Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 87-141.

Together with politics, economics and religion, war is one of the fundamental factors that can shape a society and group identities. In the prehistoric world, the sources for the study of war are disparate and their interpretation can be inconsistent and problematic.

Surviving crisis: Insights from new excavations at Karphi, 2008

Saro Wallace (with contributions by Dimitra Mylona) Annual of the British School at Athens 107 (2012): 1-85.

Seventy years after its first investigation, Karphi (Karfi) on Crete was the subject of a new pilot excavation in 2008. The main aim was to provide the first up-to-date detailed contextual records for the site across a representative area, thus filling in interpretative gaps left by the original extensive excavation.

Early Thermos. New Excavations 1992-2003

I.A. Papapostolou Athens

Early Thermos. New Excavations 1992-2003 My interest in Thermos goes back to the time when I served as Ephor of Antiquities for Achaia and Aitoloakarnania (1976-1983). It was my obligation to deal with archaeological matters of that site, such as the arrangement of the agora. Thus, when, in 1983, at the request of the Archaeological Society in Athens, I undertook the continuation of the excavation of Thermos, which had been con­ducted by Rhomaios until 1932, I began with the agora.