Erika Weiberg & Michael LindblomHesperia 83:3 (July-September 2014), 383-407
Lerna and the Lower Citadel of Tiryns are key sites for understanding the Early Helladic II–III transition in the northeastern Peloponnese. We argue that the differences between the two settlements do not reflect chronological variation, but rather the ways in which each settlement responded to events ca. 2200 b.c.
Florence Gaignerot-DriessenAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.3 (July 2014): 489–520.
Large wheelmade terracotta figures with upraised arms, found together with typical cultic equipment, are characteristic of Cretan Postpalatial bench sanctuaries. It is generally assumed that these figures represent one or more deities and were used as cult images.
Nicholas G. BlackwellAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.3 (July 2014): 451-488.
This article considers the stoneworking techniques and implements that were employed in the production of the Lion Gate relief at Mycenae, as deduced from tool marks preserved on the sculpture.
Joseph Maran & Aleydis Van de MoortelAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.4 (October 2014): 529-548.
In this article, a horse-bridle toggle from a final Late Helladic I context in elite Building H at Mitrou is identified on the basis of its form and decoration as an object with close ties to the Carpatho-Danubian zone.
Michael B. CosmopoulosAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.3 (July 2014): 401-427.
Religious continuity from the Mycenaean to the Geometric period is one of the thorniest issues in Greek archaeology. The problems created by the scantiness of the evidence are compounded by our own methodological pitfalls, especially the ambiguity of the term “continuity.”
Panagiota A. PantouAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.3 (July 2014): 369–400.
Early Mycenaean (Late Helladic [LH] II–IIIA1) Greece witnessed major changes in the built environment, including new types of mortuary architecture and the appearance of corridor buildings (a megaron-type structure with an interior corridor and subsidiary rooms).
Barry Molloy, Jo Day, Sue Bridgford, Valasia Isaakidou, Eleni Nodarou, Georgia Kotzamani, Marina Milić, Tristan Carter, Polly Westlake, Vera Klontza-Jaklova, Ellinor Larsson & Barbara J. HaydenAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.2 (April 2014): 307-358.
In 2010, a portion of a well-preserved domestic building dating to the later part of Early Minoan (EM) I was excavated at Priniatikos Pyrgos, east Crete. Though only a small portion of this house was available to investigate, there was clear evidence for several architectural and habitation phases.
Giorgos VavouranakisAmerican Journal of Archaeology 118.2 (April 2014): 197-222.
Toward the end of the third millennium B.C.E., Minoan funerary customs changed, and people began to favor the use of clay receptacles - pithoi or larnakes - for the bodies of the dead. This article offers a comprehensive study of the funerary pithoi of the period, comprising a review of the available material and its classification, distribution, and dating, the relation of container to tomb types, and the specific use of pithoi within funerary ritual.
Kenneth Wardle, Thomas Higham & Bernd KromerPLoS ONE 9(9): e106672. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106672
Over 60 recent analyses of animal bones, plant remains, and building timbers from Assiros in northern Greece form an unique series from the 14th to the 10th century BC. With the exception of Thera, the number of 14C determinations from other Late Bronze Age sites in Greece has been small and their contribution to chronologies minimal.
Andrew J. Koh, Assaf Yasur-Landau & Eric H. ClinePLoS ONE 9(8): e106406. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106406
Scholars have for generations recognized the importance of wine production, distribution, and consumption in relation to second millennium BC palatial complexes in the Mediterranean and Near East. However, direct archaeological evidence has rarely been offered, despite the prominence of ancient viticulture in administrative clay tablets, visual media, and various forms of documentation.
Tristan Carter, Daniel Contreras, Sean Doyle, Danica D. Mihailović, Theodora Moutsiou & Nikolaos SkarpelisAntiquity 88:341 (2014), Project Gallery.
This article introduces new work at Stélida on the north-west coast of Naxos (Cycladic Islands, Greece), a source of chert that we demonstrate to have been used extensively in the Middle Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods.
E.N. Johnston, R.S.J. Sparks, J.C. Phillips & S. CareyJournal of the Geological Society 171:4 (2014): 583-590.
The Late Bronze Age ‘Minoan’ eruption of Santorini, Greece occurred from within an existing caldera. Low-temperature pyroclastic flow emplacement on shallow slopes outside the caldera can only be consistent with the caldera being filled with eruption products that are not preserved.
Stella PilavakiTime and Mind, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2014): 71-87.
This paper adopts an innovative integrated approach to explore the chronology of a rock art tradition in Northern Greece. It relationally analyses different strands of evidence, which include iconography, style, the data sets derived from the structural and phenomenological investigation of the source material, and literature research.
