BOOK REVIEWS | 2014
Hadji, A.
American Journal of Archaeology
Hadji, A., 2014. Online review of A.B. Knapp, The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory Through the Bronze Age (Cambridge 2013), American Journal of Archaeology 118.4 (October 2014).
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Michael B. Cosmopoulos
American 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. Pantou
American 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).
Höflmayer, F.
American Journal of Archaeology
Höflmayer, F., 2014. Online review of E. Peltenburg (ed.), Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus (Turnhout 2013), American Journal of Archaeology 118.4 (October 2014).
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Dolfini, Α.
Antiquity
Dolfini, Α., 2014. Review of C.F. Clarke, The manufacture of Minoan metal vessels: theory and practice (Uppsala 2013), Antiquity 88:342 (December 2014), 1337-1339.
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. Hayden
American 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 Vavouranakis
American 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.
Edited by Eleni Mantzourani & Nanno Marinatos
Athens
Το βιβλίο με τίτλο «Σπυρίδων Μαρινάτος 1901-1974: Η ζωή και η εποχή του», που εξεδόθη από το Ινστιτούτο του Βιβλίου – Α. Καρδαμίτσα, είναι ο τόμος των Πρακτικών του διήμερου επιστημονικού συνεδρίου που οργάνωσε το Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών στη μνήμη του αείμνηστου Καθηγητή και Ακαδημαϊκού Σπυρίδωνα Μαρινάτου στις 22 και 23 Ιουνίου 2012.
Jeffrey P. Emanuel
Aegean Studies 1, 2014, 21-56
The appearance of the brailed rig and loose–footed sail at the end of the Late Bronze Age revolutionized seafaring in the eastern Mediterranean. The most famous early appearance of this new technology is found in history’s first visual representation of a naval battle, on the walls of Ramesses III’s mortuary temple at Medinet Habu, where both Egyptian and Sea Peoples ships are depicted with this new rig, as well as top–mounted crow’s nests and decking upon which shipborne warriors do battle.
Sturt W. Manning
Oxford/Philadelphia
The eruption of the Thera (Santorini) volcano in the Aegean Sea in the mid-second millennium BC was a clearly defined, specific moment in Aegean and east Mediterranean prehistory that impacted on all the major cultures of the region.
Edited by Antonis Kotsonas
Leuven - Paris - Walpole, MA
This volume is designed as a wide-ranging analysis of ceramic standardization and variation, and as a contribution to pottery studies in the Mediterranean and beyond.
Barbara A. Olsen
New York
Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete.
Kenneth Wardle, Thomas Higham & Bernd Kromer
PLoS 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. Cline
PLoS 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.
Edited by Stella Souvatzi & Athena Hadji
New York
Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory addresses these two concepts as interrelated, rather than as separate categories, and as a means for understanding past social relations at different scales. The need for this volume was realised through four main observations: the ever growing interest in space and spatiality across the social sciences;
