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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

BOOK REVIEWS | 2015

Review of Heinrich Schliemann

Gnomon

Hertel, D., 2015. Review of S. Samida, Heinrich Schliemann (Tübingen/Basel 2012), Gnomon 87.5: 448-453.

A royan gift? Bulk grain storage in Protopalatial and Neopalatial Crete

Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 1 (2015, new series): 137-170

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest of Aegean archaeologists in methods of quantifying the subsistence economy in order to obtain a better idea of which parts of society were either economically dependent or in charge respectively.

Tools, Textiles and Contexts. Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age

Oxford & Philadelphia

Tools, Textiles and Contexts. Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue of archaeological textile finds presented here clearly demonstrates, even from the few extant finds, that knowledge of the use of fibres and of elaborate textile techniques that were used to produce textiles of different qualities was well developed.

Elis 1969: The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project

Oxford

Elis 1969: The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project In the 1960s a great new barrier dam was built across the Peneios Valley in Elis in the N.W. Peloponnese to create an artificial lake for irrigation purposes. In 1967 the Greek Archaeological Service organised a preliminary survey of the areas to be affected and also asked all the Foreign Archaeological Schools to assist and allocated specific sections to each.