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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

ARTICLES | 2014

Associating residues and wear traces as indicators of hafting methods: Α view from the chipped stone industries from the island of Gavdos, Crete

In J. Marreiros, N. Bicho, J.F. Gibaja (eds), International Conference on Use-Wear Analysis. Use-Wear 2012 (Cambridge 2014): 714-726

Macroscopic and microscopic analysis of a sample of flint and obsidian artefacts from an excavated area with LN/FN/EB finds on the island of Gavdos has revealed use-wear traces and organic residues, very possibly of the hafting arrangement, on a black flint tool which appears to be the hafted element of a sickle.

The Mainland Bronze Age

Pharos 20 (2014): 145-161

This paper focuses on the Helladic region of Bronze Age Greece, taking in the southern Greek mainland and the nearest islands, but also pays some attention to Mycenaean connections and exchange activity outside this region, particularly beyond the Aegean, since these have a considerable bearing on our understanding of Mycenaean civilisation.

The Early Iron Age at Troy reconsidered

Oxford Journal of Archaeology 33.3 (2014): 275–312

Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) of Protogeometric ceramics at Troy supports a revision of our understanding of the site in the Protogeometric period.

Mycenaean burnt animal sacrifice at Eleusis

Oxford Journal of Archaeology 33.3 (2014): 257-273

Burnt animal sacrifice is well attested in Greek historical times, but whether it was practiced in the Mycenaean period is debated.

Searching for Bronze Age in the Cyclades

Pharos 20 (2014): 117-143

The development of Bronze Age society in the Cyclades shows a unique flourishing of culture and maritime entrepreneurship over more than a millennium, influenced by and influencing adjacent culture on the Greek Mainland and Crete but maintaining its own distinctive identity.