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BOOK REVIEWS | 2016

Review of A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid-second Millennium BC

Bietak, M. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Bietak, M., 2016. Review of S. W. Manning, A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited: The Volcano of Thera and the Chronology and History of the Aegean and East Mediterranean in the mid-second Millennium BC (2nd Edition) (Oxford; Philadelphia 2014), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.04.06.
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Evolving settlement patterns, spatial interaction and the socio-political organisation of late Prepalatial south-central Crete

Eleftheria Paliou & Andrew Bevan Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 42 (2016): 184-197

Simulations of spatial interaction in archaeology have been successful in predicting the emergence of central sites, and political and economic hierarchies that match observed long-term settlement patterns. It still remains unclear, however, to what degree such models can effectively allow for uncertainty in the archaeological record, especially when it comes to incomplete and unevenly distributed settlement data, and how best they might incorporate artefact-scale evidence.

Funerary variability in late eighth-century B.C.E. Attica (Late Geometric II)

Alexandra Alexandridou American Journal of Archaeology 120.3 (July 2016): 333-360

Attic mortuary practices of the last three decades of the eighth century B.C.E. (Late Geometric [LG] II) are principally marked by the dominance for adults of inhumation over cremation. Nevertheless, this transformation was not universally applied at all burial sites in Attica.