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ARTICLES | 2018

«…the result can be bold and startling». Crateri figurati d’età geometrica dalla necropoli di Siderospilia (Priniàs)

A. Pautasso Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 96 (2018): 497-518

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The ongoing study of the Geometric pottery found in the excavation of the Siderospilia necropolis (Priniàs) allowed us to single out a group of large kraters on tall pedestals whose figured painted decoration is inspired by the iconographic repertoire of the coeval Cretan metalwork and other artefacts in different media.

Settlement and Land Use on the Periphery. The Bouros-Kastri Peninsula, Southern Euboia

Jere M. Wickens, Susan I. Rotroff, Tracey Cullen, Lauren E. Talalay, Catherine Perlès & Floyd W. McCoy Oxford

Settlement and Land Use on the Periphery. The Bouros-Kastri Peninsula, Southern Euboia The Bouros-Kastri peninsula at the south-eastern tip of the Greek island of Euboia has previously been overlooked in the archaeological literature. This survey by the Southern Euboea Exploration Project, conducted under the aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece, now provides a wealth of intriguing information about fluctuations in long-term use and habitation in this part of the Karystia.

Die goldenen Siegelringen der Ägäischen Bronzezeit

Nadine Becker Heidelberg

Die goldenen Siegelringen der Ägäischen Bronzezeit The aim of the present work is to present a comprehensive survey of the genre of Minoan and Mycenaean signet rings in its chronological, technical and iconographic development. The study of the material faces two main problems: First, seal images of supposedly religious content have always been a vividly discussed subject of research, while signet rings with allegedly lesser pictographical potential were (and still are) significantly underrepresented in the literature.

Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans

Edited by Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorova & Philipp W. Stockhammer Oxford & Philadelphia

Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans Ever since the definition of the Neolithic Revolution by Vere Gordon Childe, archaeologists have been aware of the crucial importance of food for the understanding of prehistoric developments. Numerous studies have classified and described cooking ware, hearths and ovens, have studied food residues and more recently also stable isotopes in skeletal material.

Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

Bernard Knapp Leiden

Seafaring and Seafarers in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Seafaring is a mode of travel, a way to traverse maritime space that enables not only the transport of goods and materials but also of people and ideas — communicating and sharing knowledge across the sea and between different lands.

Revisiting Bronze and Early Iron Age Central Epirus (Prefecture of Ioannina, Greece)

Eleni Vasileiou Journal of Greek Archaeology 3 (2018): 145-164

The area of central Epirus (prefecture of Ioannina) occupies the northwestern part of the Greek peninsula. It has been continuously settled for a quarter of a million years during which it witnessed lots of changes of physical landscape owing mainly to the intense tectonic activity.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mycenaeans, Migration, and Mobility in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean

Guy D. Middleton Journal of Greek Archaeology 3 (2018): 115-143

A recent paper argues that climate change at the end of the Late Bronze Age caused mass migrations, ‘vast movements of population’, out of the Balkans into Greece and Anatolia, with migrants destroying cities and states as they went – causing the collapse of Late Bronze Age societies such as the Mycenaeans.

Tracing Technoscapes. The Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean

Edited by Johannes Becker, Johannes Jungfleisch & Constance von Rüden Leiden

Tracing Technoscapes. The Production of Bronze Age Wall Paintings in the Eastern Mediterranean Colourful surface treatments form an integral element of vernacular and élite architecture of ancient societies. This is also true for the various regions of the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd millennium B.C.E., where elaborate wall paintings furnished temples, tombs, palatial buildings, and in general more elaborate houses.

Excavations at Sissi IV. Preliminary Report on the 2015-2016 Campaigns

J. Driessen, M. Anastasiadou, I. Caloi, T. Claeys, S. Dederix, M. Devolder, S. Jusseret, C. Langohr, Q. Letesson, I. Mathioudaki, O. Mounthuy & A. Schmitt Louvain-la-Neuve

Excavations at Sissi IV. Preliminary Report on the 2015-2016 Campaigns Following a first 5-year programme between 2007 and 2011 and three earlier preliminary reports published as Aegis 1.4 and 6, the Belgian School at Athens returned to Sissi in 2015. This volume describes the results of the 2015 and 2016 campaigns, in part concentrating on the remains of a large, Neopalatial monumental complex with Central Court, which was initially recognised in 2011.

Diet and Social Divisions in Protohistoric Greece: Integrating Analyses of stable Isotopes and Mortuary Practices

E. Panagiotopoulou, J. van der Plicht, A. Papathanasiou, S. Voutsaki, S. Katakouta, A. Intzesiloglou & P. Arachoviti Journal of Greek Archaeology 3 (2018): 95-114

The Early Iron Age (EIA, 11th – 8th century BC) in Greece is the transitional period following the end of the Mycenaean civilisation. The first half of this period is the so-called Protogeometric period (11th – 10th century BC) during which the mainland communities had to recover from the collapse of the Mycenaean palatial system, a centralised economic system of a stratified society.

Demography and burial exclusion in Mycenaean Achaia, Greece

Olivia A. Jones Journal of Greek Archaeology 3 (2018): 75-93

The Late Bronze Age period in Greece, known as the Mycenaean period, has been an influential research topic in Greek archaeology since the excavations at Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann in the late 19th century.