BOOKS | 2013
Λακεδαίμων (Lakedaimon) (3 volumes)
Athens 2013
In this three-volume work, Theodoros Spyropoulos, Emeritus Ephor of Antiquities, Sparta, presents his significant excavation research at Pellana located 25 kilometers north of Sparta, Laconia. The excavation begun in 1980 and continued for approximately 25 years.Review of Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina. An Integrated Archaeological and Scientific Study of a Ceramic Landscape
Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 (2013): 255-256
Schallin, A.-L., 2013. Review of W. Gauss & E. Kiriatzi, Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina. An Integrated Archaeological and Scientific Study of a Ceramic Landscape (Vienna 2011), Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 (2013): 255-256.
The Phaistos hills before the Palace: a contextual reappraisal
Monza
This work represents the first comprehensive account of all the deposits and structures uncovered over the past hundred years on the three hills of the Phaistos ridge (in south-central Crete), and also the first attempt to clarify the nature of the site – in terms of function and status – from its foundation at the end of the Neolithic period through the Early Bronze Age.14C Dating of Humic Acids from Bronze and Iron Age Plant Remains from the Eastern Mediterranean
Radiocarbon 55:2-3 (2013): 599-607.
Radiocarbon dating of plant remains is often difficult due to the complete dissolution of the samples in the alkaline step of the ABA pretreatment. At the VERA laboratory, this problem was encountered frequently when numerous Bronze and Early Iron Age samples from the eastern Mediterranean were dated in the course of the special research program SCIEM2000 and in other collaborations with archaeologists focused on that area and time period.Interpreting Radiocarbon Dates from the Paleolithic Layers of Theopetra Cave in Thessaly, Greece
Radiocarbon 55:2-3 (2013): 1432-1442.
Theopetra Cave is a unique prehistoric site for Greece, as the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods are present here, bridging the Pleistocene with the Holocene. During the more than 20 yr of excavation campaigns, charcoal samples from hearths suitable for 14C dating were collected from all anthropogenic layers, including the Paleolithic ones.Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Pottery from the Field Survey in Northwestern Cyprus, 1992-1999
Oxford
The material presented here is derived from an extensive survey conducted by the Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project (PAP) in 1992–1994, 1996–1997, and 1999 in the area between the western bank of the Chrysochou River and Kato Pyrgos in northwestern Cyprus.Household and community behavior at Bronze Age Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus
Journal of Field Archaeology 38:2 (May 2013): 101-119.
We investigate intrasite patterns of artifacts and floral and faunal data to interpret household and community behavior at the Middle Cypriot (Bronze Age) village of Politiko-Troullia in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus.Review of Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
Hulin, L., 2013. Review of Louise Steel, Materiality and Consumption in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (New York 2013), Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 83-85.
Overseers of an Entangled Island: Hybrid Cultural Identities of Early Iron Age Cyprus
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 61-73.
Archaeologists studying Late Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus have produced diverse theories regarding the origins of the Cypriot Iron Age city kingdoms, but it has proved difficult to integrate Cyprus within larger models designed to evaluate relationships between communities of the East Mediterranean.Accumulations: Updating the Role of Cypriot Bichrome Ware in Egypt
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 44-60.
Cypriot Bichrome Wheel-made Ware is an important index for the study of interrelations in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World. The ware is a chronological marker for the beginning of the Late Cypriot Bronze Age and was the subject of a research project during the last decade within the Cyprus project of SCIEM 2000.From Egyptian to Egyptianizing in Cypriot Glyptic of the Late Bronze Age
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 10-43.
The 228 contextualized seals at Enkomi allow for detailed views into how Egyptian seal types were used in the Late Bronze Age(ca. 1650–1050 BCE) in one settlement on Cyprus. Over time the emphasis shifted from Egyptian seal rings and uncarved scarabs and scaraboids in tombs to Egyptianizing designs on Cypriot cylinder and conoid stamp seals that recalled the carved details on the bottoms of scarabs.Cyprus and Egypt in the Late Bronze Age
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 5:3 (September 2013): 1-9.
The socioeconomic and ideological transformations that characterize Late Bronze Age Cyprus have been linked to a major expansion in interconnections with the older cultures of ancient western Asia and Egypt.Review of DNA for Archaeologists
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Brown, Τ., 2013. Review of Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith & K. Ann Horsburgh, DNA for Archaeologists (Walnut Creek 2012), Cambridge Archaeological Journal 23:2 (June 2013): 336-337.