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ARTICLES | 2013

On the Constitution and Transformation of Philistine Identity

Aren M. Maeir, Louise A. Hitchcock & Liora Kolska Horwitz Oxford Journal of Archaeology 32:1 (February 2013): 1-38.

Recent discussion of the formation and alteration of Philistine identity in the Levantine Iron Age continues to reference primarily pottery styles and dietary practices. Such traditional narratives propose that the Philistines comprised one group of the ‘Sea Peoples’ and that the cultural boundary markers that distinguished their society in the Iron Age I (twelfth–eleventh century BC) diminished in importance and disappeared suddenly in the early Iron Age IIA (tenth century BC), with the ascendancy of the Judahite kingdom.

Construire en Crète Minoenne. Une approche énergétique de l’architecture néopalatiale

Maud Devolder Leuven/Liège

Construire en Crète Minoenne. Une approche énergétique de l’architecture néopalatiale L’architecture crétoise néopalatiale (XVIIe-XVe s. av. J.-C.) est étudiée selon une approche énergétique qui permet de déterminer le temps nécessaire à la construction d’un édifice. Le nombre total d’heures de travail dévolues à l’accomplissement des différentes tâches sur le chantier, depuis l’acquisition des matériaux jusqu’à leur mise en place, est estimé.

Against the Gaps. The Early Bronze Age and the Transition to the Middle Bronze Age in the Northern and Eastern Aegean/Western Anatolia

Ourania Kouka American Journal of Archaeology 117.4 (October 2013): Online Forum.

Gaps are not desirable in archaeology, whether they refer to cultural gaps or to gaps in research. When Rutter defined a "gap" between the Early Cycladic IIB and Middle Cycladic I/Middle Helladic I assemblages, it was evident that there existed a real gap in archaeological research of the prehistoric landscapes and islandscapes of the northern and eastern Aegean and of western Anatolia, to the south of Troy.

Reexamining the Early Cycladic III “Gap” from the Perspective of Crete. A Regional Approach to Relative Chronology, Networks, and Complexity in the Late Prepalatial Period

Thomas M. Brogan American Journal of Archaeology 117.4 (October 2013): Online Forum.

The proposed Early Cycladic III "gap" was identified through careful correlations in the late Early Bronze II ceramic records of the mainland and the Cyclades. The absence of Cretan material was noteworthy when viewed against the rich Early Minoan (EM) I–II record, revealing that large amounts of material in the Kampos and Keros-Syros styles was reaching the island via Cycladic colonies or trade.

Summaries of the Scientific Symposium: PAINTBRUSHES. Wall-painting and vase-painting of the 2nd millennium BC in dialogue

Edited by Andreas Vlachopoulos Athens

Summaries of the Scientific Symposium: PAINTBRUSHES. Wall-painting and vase-painting of the 2nd millennium BC in dialogue XΡΩΣΤΗΡΕΣ (CHROSTERES)-PAINTBRUSHES was a scientific symposium addressed to archaeologists, conservators of antiquities and artists specialized in the study of Aegean iconography, who wereinvited to participate in open discussions on the dialectical relationship that developed between the arts of vase-painting and wall-painting in the Aegean during the second millennium BC.

Bridging the Gaps in Cultural Change Within the Early Bronze Age Aegean

Daniel J. Pullen American Journal of Archaeology 117.4 (October 2013): Online Forum.

In one of the arguments about the Early Cycladic (EC) III "gap" in material culture, Jeremy Rutter recognized the Anatolianizing Kastri/Lefkandi I assemblage to be of great importance for developments in ceramics on the Early Helladic mainland.

Thinking About Change in Early Cycladic Island Societies from a Comparative Perspective

Cyprian Broodbank American Journal of Archaeology 117.4 (October 2013): Online Forum.

Thirty years on, "Rutter's gap" remains a challenge for Aegean prehistorians. With a precision commonly overlooked by his critics, Rutter originally set out to draw attention to a lacuna in our knowledge of material from stratified sites in the Cyclades, or of Cycladic material exported elsewhere, at the end of the third millennium B.C.E. and to a consequent hiatus in our ability to trace how island culture and behavior shifted from the Early to Middle Bronze Age.

Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes. Antikythera in Long-Term Perspective

Andrew Bevan & James Conolly Cambridge/New York

Mediterranean Islands, Fragile Communities and Persistent Landscapes. Antikythera in Long-Term Perspective Mediterranean landscape ecology, island cultures and long-term human history have all emerged as major research agendas over the past half-century, engaging large swathes of the social and natural sciences. This book brings these traditions together in considering Antikythera, a tiny island perched on the edge of the Aegean and Ionian seas, over the full course of its human history from the Neolithic through the present day.