AEGEAN STUDIES | 2018
Willemijn Waal
Aegean Studies 1, 2018, 83-125
Though it is generally agreed upon that the Greeks borrowed (and modified) the alphabet from the Phoenicians, there is no consensus about the moment when this took place.
Ioannis Georganas
In Christian Horn & Kristian Kristiansen (eds) 2018. Warfare in Bronze Age Society, Cambridge: 189-197.
Barry Molloy
In C. Horn & K. Kristiansen (eds) 2018. Warfare in Bronze Age Society, Cambridge: 81-100.
The collapse of the Bronze Age palatial centres in the Aegean transformed the societies surrounding the palaces and unbalanced the relationship between these areas and those immediately to the north. In Classical tradition, the Dorians invaded Greece in the twilight years of the palaces or soon thereafter, leading to collapse.
Evyenia Yiannouli
In A. G. Simosi (ed.) 2018. Βουτιά στα Περασμένα. Η Υποβρύχια Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα, 1976-2014, Athens: 351-368.
“Archaeological Shoreline Research” (A.Sho.Re.) is an interdisciplinary Research Project of the University of the Peloponnese conducted in collaboration with the N.C.S.R. “Demokritos” and the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. It explores the historical significance of the Coastal Zone through an extensive and systematic Geo-Archaeological Reconnaissance of SE Kephallenia, the Ionian Sea.
Giorgos Koutsouflakis
In A. G. Simosi (ed.) 2018. Βουτιά στα Περασμένα. Η Υποβρύχια Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα, 1976-2014, Athens: 125-152.
The Southern Euboean Gulf Project was a jointed underwater survey undertaken by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and the Hellenic Institute of the Maritime Archaeology. The aim of the project was to survey large tracts of coastline in the area extended between Sounio, Kavalliani Island and Karystos in search for shipwrecks and traces of ancient navigation and trade.
Christos S. Agouridis
In A. G. Simosi (ed.) 2018. Βουτιά στα Περασμένα. Η Υποβρύχια Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα, 1976-2014, Athens: 73-84.
One of the most frequented sea routes in the Aegean throughout the centuries is the one connecting the Saronic and the Argolic Gulfs. The first evidence for seafaring comes from the Mesolithic strata of Franchthi Cave (9000-7000 BC), which contained obsidian tools sourced to the island of Melos.
Elpida Chatzidaki
In A. G. Simosi (ed.) 2018. Βουτιά στα Περασμένα. Η Υποβρύχια Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα, 1976-2014, Athens: 23-32.
Two ancient shipwrecks that were investigated and excavated by the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities between 1991 and 2000 and also from 2003 to 2009 under the direction of the undersigned who served at the time as Deputy Head or Head of the Ephorate are worthy of special attention.
George Kazantzis
Oxford
Excavations on the border between Greece (sector Promachon) and Bulgaria (sector Topolniča) in the basin of the river Strymonas, in Macedonia northern Greece, have revealed a ‘flat-extended’ settlement dating to the Late Neolithic. In addition to the rich array of material culture evidence, the excavation yielded a substantial quantity of animal bones, thus offering an unparalleled opportunity to study the human-animal relationships.
Wiersma, C. W.
Journal of Hellenic Studies 138 (2018): 286-287
Wiersma, C. W., Review of: C.S. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Imports, Trade, and Institutions 1300–700 BCE (Cambridge 2017), Journal of Hellenic Studies 138 (2018): 286-287
Gillis, C.
Journal of Hellenic Studies 138 (2018): 283-286
Gillis, C., Review of: C. W. Wiersma & S. Voutsaki (eds), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017), Journal of Hellenic Studies 138 (2018): 283-286
Gaignerot-Driessen, F.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.05.06
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Gaignerot-Driessen, F., Review of: L. Preston Day & G. Cornelia Gesell (eds), Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda: Specialist Reports and Analyses [Prehistory Monographs 52] (Philadelphia 2016), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.05.06.
Johnston, C.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.01.41
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Johnston, C., Review of: R. Jones, S. T. Levi, M. Bettelli & L. Vagnetti, Italo-Mycenaean Pottery: The Archaeological and Archaeometric Dimensions (Roma 2014), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.01.41.
Blackwell, N.G.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.03.14
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Blackwell, N.G., Review of: E. Kiriatzi & C. Knappett (eds.), Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean (New York 2016), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.03.14.
Christos G. Doumas
Athens
Fifty years of systematic excavation, scientific research, study and conservation measures have revealed the history of the settlement at Akrotiri and the cultural achievements of the society that lived there. At the height of its prosperity, the cosmopolitan city one of the most important urban centres in the prehistoric Aegean, was struck by an earthquake that heralded the eruption of the Thera volcano, which buried it for posterity under a thick mantle of pumice and ash. The ruined buildings, the thousands of objects recovered from them and the remarkable wall-paintings that decorated them give us an insight into the daily life, the aesthetics and the ideology of the ‘bourgeois’ inhabitants of this once thriving port.
Murray, S. C.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.05.13
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Murray, S. C., Review of: V. Antoniadis, Knossos and the Near East: A Contextual Approach to Imports and Imitations in Early Iron Age Tombs (Oxford 2017), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.05.13.