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A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World. Volume 3

Edited by Yves Duhoux & Anna Morpurgo Davies Louvain-la-Neuve 2014

A Companion to Linear B. Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World. Volume 3 Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek. The tablets written in this script offer crucial information about the Mycenaean Greeks and their time. This Companion aims at not only summarizing the results of current research but also trying to explain the problems which arise from the study of the texts and the methods which can be used to solve them.

Revised estimates for the volume of the Late Bronze Age Minoan eruption, Santorini, Greece

E.N. Johnston, R.S.J. Sparks, J.C. Phillips & S. Carey Journal 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.

A Proposed Chronology for a Rock Art Complex in Northern Greece

Stella Pilavaki Time 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.

Spatial analysis and social spaces. Interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation of prehistoric and historic built environments

Edited by Eleftheria Paliou, Undine Lieberwirth & Silvia Polla Berlin/Boston

Spatial analysis and social spaces. Interdisciplinary approaches to the interpretation of prehistoric and historic built environments In recent years a range of formal methods of spatial analysis have been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. Many, although not all, of these emanate from the fields of architectural and urban studies, and draw upon social theories of space that lay emphasis on the role of visibility, movement, and accessibility in the built environment.

An integrated stable isotope study of plants and animals from Kouphovouno, southern Greece: a new look at Neolithic farming

Petra Vaiglova, Amy Bogaard, Matthew Collins, William Cavanagh, Christopher Mee, Josette Renard, Angela Lamb, Armelle Gardeisen & Rebecca Fraser Journal of Archaeological Science 42 (February 2014): 201-215.

This paper presents the first study that combines the use of ancient crop and animal stable isotopes (carbon and nitrogen) and Zooarchaeology Mass Spectrometry species identification (ZooMS) for reconstructing early farming practices at Kouphovouno, a Middle–Late Neolithic village in southern Greece (c. 5950–4500 cal. BC).

Was the Piraeus peninsula (Greece) a rocky island? Detection of pre-Holocene rocky relief with borehole data and resistivity tomography analysis

G. Apostolopoulos, K. Pavlopoulos, J.-P. Goiran & E. Fouache Journal of Archaeological Science 42 (February 2014): 412-421.

According to historical documents, Piraeus was a rocky island consisting of the steep hill of Munichia, known as modern-day Kastella. It was connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land (“Halipedon”) that would flood with sea water most of the year and was used as a salt field whenever it dried up.

Provenance and proximity: a technological analysis of Late and Final Neolithic ceramics from Euripides Cave, Salamis, Greece

Ian Whitbread & Alexandra Mari Journal of Archaeological Science 41 (January 2014): 79-88.

This paper examines application of the provenance hypothesis in areas of complex regional geology, where all potential sources of raw materials cannot be isolated or taken into account. With a few notable exceptions most pottery of the Late and Final Neolithic in Central and Southern Mainland Greece is considered to be locally produced by non-specialist household potters.

Sedimentary processes involved in mud brick degradation in temperate environments: a micromorphological approach in an ethnoarchaeological context in northern Greece

David E. Friesem, Panagiotis Karkanas, Georgia Tsartsidou & Ruth Shahack-Gross Journal of Archaeological Science 41 (January 2014): 556-567.

Sun dried mud bricks are a common building material across the globe, found in many archaeological sites in the Old World since ca. 11,000 years ago. This material is known to disintegrate due to exposure to the elements, mostly affected by rain.

Shifting boundaries: The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean under a new light

Iro Mathioudaki Aegean Studies 1, 2014, 1-20

The aim of the present paper is to propose some synchronizations, mainly taking into consideration the typology of pottery. The period of our focus is the early Late Bronze Age and the data presented come from the Mainland, Crete and the Cyclades. Ceramic data from different places are combined, offering interesting correlations in terms of relative chronology.

Micromorphological analysis of sediments at the Bronze Age site of Mitrou, central Greece: patterns of floor construction and maintenance

Panagiotis Karkanas & Aleydis Van de Moortel Journal of Archaeological Science 43 (2014): 198-213.

The study of settlement sites is usually based on the analysis of architectural or cultural phases. The sediments that constitute the excavated deposits inside or outside houses are rarely studied. This work presents micromorphological analysis of sediments at the prehistoric site of Mitrou, a small tidal islet in central Greece.

Στιγμιότυπα προϊστορικής αρχαιολογίας στην Ελλάδα των αρχών του 20ου αιώνα

Κοσμάς Τουλούμης Προϊστορήματα 6 (Φεβρουάριος 2014).

Το 1904 ο Παναγιώτης Καββαδίας εκφωνεί μπροστά στα μέλη του Ανθρωπολογικού Τμήματος της British Association μια σύντομη ανακοίνωση για την ανθρωπολογία και την προϊστορική αρχαιολογία στην Ελλάδα.

The Mycenaean cemetery of Agios Vasilios in Chalandritsa in Achaea – A preliminary report (in Greek)

Κωνσταντίνα Ακτύπη Προϊστορήματα 6 (February 2014).

In the late 1920’s Nikolaos Kyparissis discovered the Mycenaean chamber tomb cemetery at Agios Vasilios, near Chalandritsa in central Achaea and excavated some of the tombs. During the following decades archaeological work undertaken in the area revealed several sites and finds, but it seems uncertain weather any of that concerned the cemetery of Agios Vasilios.

Review of The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. 2, Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archaeometrical Studies

Allen, S.E. American Journal of Archaeology

Allen, S.E., 2014. Online review of Adamantios Sampson (ed.), The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. 2, Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archaeometrical Studies (Philadelphia 2011), American Journal of Archaeology 118.1 (January 2014).

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