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BOOKS | 2015

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Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Michael B. Cosmopoulos Cambridge 2015

For more than one thousand years, people from every corner of the Greco-Roman world sought the hope for a blessed afterlife through initiation into the Mysteries of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis.

Review of Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town

Stewart, D. Antiquity

Stewart, D., 2015. Review of W. Caraher, R. Scott Moore & D.K. Pettegrew, Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town (ASOR Archaeological Reports 21) (Boston 2014), Antiquity 89.347 (October 2015): 1255-1256.

Light in a Neolithic dwelling: Building 1 at Koutroulou Magoula (Greece)

Constantinos Papadopoulos, Yannis Hamilakis & Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika Antiquity 89 (October 2015): 1034-1050

Light has been considered in various archaeological contexts from the Bronze Age to post-Classical periods, but largely in association with religion and ritual.

Karlsruher Kykladika unter der Lupe. Zur Verbindung naturwissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen mit der Aufarbeitung des Erwerbs von Antiken ungewisser Provenienz

Bernhard F. Steinmann, Rainer Altherr & Alexander Varychev Athenische Mitteilungen 127/128 (2012/2013) [2015]: 1-46

The return of Early Cycladic objects from the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum of Karlsruhe resulted from the acknowledgment that the museum’s problematic former acquisitions policy needed to be revisited.

Cult Material. From Archaeological Deposits to Interpretation of Early Greek Religion

Edited by Petra Pakkanen & Susanne Bocher Helsinki

This volume is based on the workshop Defining and Interpreting Ancient Greek Cult Deposits held 24-28 October 2008 at Ancient Olympia.

Thravsma. Contextualising the Intentional Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus

Edited by Kate Harrell & Jan Driessen Louvain

How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and the eastern coast of Italy between 4000-750 BC, archaeologists consider the custom of ritually killing objects as a normative, if inconsistent practice.

Μυκηναϊκή Αρκαδία. Αρχαιολογική και τοπογραφική θεώρηση [Mycenaean Arcadia: An Archaeological and Topographical Approach]

Eleni Salavoura Athens

This book is an attempt to reconstruct the image of Mycenaean Arcadia based on the archaeological and topographical data, more than four decades after the systematic investigation of R. Howell (BSA 1970) in the region.

Pots, Workshop and Early Iron Age Society. Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece

Edited by Vicky Vlachou Bruxelles

This volume brings together a number of papers that were presented at the international symposium on Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society. Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece organised by the University of Athens (UoA) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and held at the Université libre de Bruxelles in November 2013.

Mycenaean lapidary craftsmanship: the manufacturing process of stone vases

Elise Morero The Annual of the British School at Athens 110 (2015): 121-146

Greek mainland in the shaft graves of Mycenae (Middle Helladic III – Late Helladic I) and was certainly, in large part, of Minoan origin.

Mycenaeans up to Date: The Archaeology of the North-Eastern Peloponnese―Current Concepts and New Directions

Edited by Ann-Louise Schallin & Iphiyenia Tournavitou Stockholm

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference “Mycenaeans up to date: The archaeology of the north-eastern Peloponnese—current concepts and new directions”, which was held on 10–16 November 2010, under the auspices of the Swedish Institute at Athens.

Adornment, ritual and identity: Inscribed Minoan jewellery

Josephine Verduci & Brent Davis The Annual of the British School at Athens 110 (2015): 51-70

In this paper, we re-examine inscribed items of Minoan jewellery in the light of the increasing number of studies on ancient eastern Mediterranean jewellery and its meanings.

Using Textiles to Propose a New Identity for the So-Called Goddess of Xeste 3

Solvejg Hansen Acta Hyperborea 14 (2015): 117-130

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Zur vorgriechischen Geschichte von Imbros aus philologischer Sicht

Simon Zsolt Ancient West and East 14 (2015): 1-21

The pre-Greek history of Imbros, i.e. the period before the arrival of the Athenians, is still unclear, despite renewed archaeological activities.

New perspectives on stone bead technology at Bronze Age Troy

Geoffrey Ludvik, Mark J. Kenoyer, Magda Pieniążek & William Aylward Anatolian Studies 65 (2015): 1-18

Stone beads from the site of Troy, Turkey, have been studied in order to understand better the nature of lapidary technology and trade during the third to second millennium BC in this part of Anatolia.

On the architecture of the Toumba building at Lefkandi

Georg Herdt The Annual of the British School at Athens 110 (2015): 203-212

The building at Toumba, Lefkandi, stands unique in its time and place. The remains of this monument are significant in terms of size and elaboration, and also on account of the way it has been reconstructed and interpreted as the ancestor of the Greek peripteral temple.

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