BOOK REVIEWS | 2014
Webb, J. M.
Classical Review
Webb, J. M., 2014. Review of A. Georgiou (ed.), Cyprus: Αn Island Culture. Society and Social Relations from the Bronze Age to the Venetian Period (Oxford and Oakville 2012), Classical Review (New Series) 64.2 (October 2014), 566-568.
McGowan, E.
Classical Review
McGowan, E., 2014. Review of Y. Galanakis (ed.), The Aegean World. A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford / Athens 2013), Classical Review (New Series) 64.2 (October 2014), 564-566.
R.E. Taylor & Ofer Bar-Yosef
Walnut Creek, California
This volume represents a second edition of Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective, written in the late 1980s by the first author.
Nick Allen
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 57.1 (June 2014), 1-19
Students of the narrative content of Greek epic usually ignore the hypothesis that it shares a common origin with the Sanskrit epic, and even Georges Dumézil, the best known Indo-European cultural comparativist of the last century, emphasized the contrast between the two traditions. However, since Dumézil's death, it has been argued that his ‘trifunctional’ theory of Indo-European ideology needs to be subsumed within a pentadic framework.
Edited by Georgia Kourtessi-Philippaki
Athens
Ο παρών τόμος συγκεντρώνει τις εργασίες δέκα μεταπτυχιακών φοιτητών Α΄ κύκλου οι οποίες εκπονήθηκαν κατά τη διάρκεια του μεταπτυχιακού σεμιναρίου στο Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών με θέμα «Η ιστορία της προϊστορικής έρευνας στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη κατά τον 19ο και 20ό αιώνα».
Papadopoulos, J.K.
Journal of Hellenic Studies 134, 245-246
Papadopoulos, J.K., 2014. Review of S. Verdan, Eretria: fouilles et recherches, XXII. Le sanctuaire d’Apollon Daphnéphoros à l’époque géométrique (Gollion 2013), Journal of Hellenic Studies 134, 245-246.
Krzyszkowska, O.
Journal of Hellenic Studies 134, 240-242
Krzyszkowska, O., 2014. Review of W. Müller (ed.), Die Bedeutung der minoischen und mykenischen Glyptik VI. internationales Siegel-Symposium aus Anlass des 50 jährigen Bestehens des CMS, Marburg, 9.-12. Oktober 2008 [CMS Beiheft 8] (Mainz am Rhein 2010) & M. Anastasiadou, The Middle Minoan Three-Sided Soft Stone Prism: A Study of Style and Iconography [CMS Beiheft 9] (Mainz am Rhein 2011),
Edited by Mary Harlow, Cecile Michel & Marie-Louise Nosch
Oxford
Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and textual evidence within a broad geographical and chronological spectrum.
Thomas Leppard
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 231-254
It has been suggested that the islands of the Mediterranean were first settled during the Pleistocene. Attention has in particular been paid to recent claims that the occupation of Crete by hominins dates to the Middle Pleistocene.
Mac Sweeney, N.
Journal of Hellenic Studies 134, 239-240
Mac Sweeney, N., 2014. Review of N. Momigliano, Bronze Age Carian Iasos. Structures and Finds from the Area of the Roman Agora (c. 3000-1500 BC) (Rome 2012), Journal of Hellenic Studies 134, 239-240.
Broodbank, C., Barker, G., Foxhall, L. & Manning, S.
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.1 (2014), 101-125
Broodbank, C., Barker, G., Foxhall, L. & Manning, S.,2014. Review of C. Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World (London 2013), Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.1 (2014), 101-125.
Krzysztof Nowicki
Boston/Berlin
This book presents an archaeological study of Crete in transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (c. 4000 to 3000 BC) within the broader South Aegean context. The study, based on the author’s own fieldwork, contains a gazetteer of over 170 sites.
Curtis Runnels
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 211-230
Humans evolved in Africa and colonized Eurasia in successive adaptive radiations, establishing themselves in Europe ca. one million years ago. It is assumed that these dispersals were by land through southwest Asia, or secondarily across the Strait of Gibraltar, because early hominins lacked the cognitive faculties and technical skills needed to cross the open Mediterranean.
Nena Galanidou
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 260-267
The prehistory of Greece begins in the Middle Pleistocene, with compelling Lower Palaeolithic (LP) evidence coming from its north. HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS lived around the Petralona Cave in Macedonia, a significant Acheulean presence is known at Rodafnidia on Lesvos, and a very few Large Cutting Tools originate from Kokkinopilos in Epirus and Palaiokastro in west Macedonia.
Sturt W. Manning, Georgia-Marina Andreou, Kevin D. Fisher, Peregrine Gerard-Little, Catherine Kearns, Jeffrey F. Leon, David A. Sewell & Thomas M. Urban
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.1 (2014), 3-32
The transformations entangled in becoming an urban society are increasingly attracting attention in archaeology, including in the Mediterranean. The place-making entailed in the development of urban settlement represents a fundamental change for a society; it creates over time a new urban mentalité and habitus, such that the urban fabric and place become an active part of social life, and its reproduction.
