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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

ARTICLES | 2019

Like a Duck to Water – Birds and Liquids in the Aegean Bronze Age

Julia Binnberg Annual of the British School at Athens 114 (2019): 41-78

This study examines the relationships between birds and liquids in the Minoan, Cycladic and Mycenaean cultures. Objects under investigation are bird-shaped vessels, bird figurines attached to vessels, and some special pouring vessels decorated with painted bird motifs, which are listed in an accompanying catalogue.

Megalo Nisi Galanis (6300–1800 BC): Constructing a Cultural Sequence for the Neolithic of West Macedonia, Greece

Michael Fotiadis, Areti Hondroyanni-Metoki. Alexandra Kalogirou & Yannis Maniatis Annual of the British School at Athens 114 (2019): 1-40

Scores of Neolithic sites have been excavated in west Macedonia since the 1990s, yet the majority are relatively short-lived installations, lacking high-resolution stratigraphies and sequences of radiocarbon dates. Megalo Nisi Galanis, a large mound in the Kitrini Limni basin, near modern Kozani, is a rare exception to that pattern.

Human Sacrifice. Archaeological Perspectives from around the World

Laerke Recht Cambridge

Human Sacrifice. Archaeological Perspectives from around the World Sacrifice is not simply an expression of religious beliefs. Its highly symbolic nature lends itself to various kinds of manipulation by those carrying it out, who may use the ritual in maintaining and negotiating power and identity in carefully staged 'performances'.

The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe

Francesco Iacono London

The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe Interaction and mobility have attracted much interest in research within scholarly fields as different as archaeology, history, and more broadly the humanities. Critically assessing some of the most wide-spread views on interaction and its social impact, this book proposes an innovative perspective which combines radical social theory and currently burgeoning network methodologies.