BOOK REVIEWS | 2025
Middleton, G. D.
American Journal of Archaeology 129 (2025)
Middleton, G. D., Review of: L. Kvapil & K. Shelton (eds), Brill’s Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean (Leiden 2024)
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Puglisi, D.
American Journal of Archaeology 129 (2025)
Puglisi, D., Review of: V. Apostolakou, P. P. Betancourt & T. M. Brogan (eds), Bramiana: Salvaging Information from a Destroyed Minoan Settlement in Southeast Crete
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Hemingway, S.
American Journal of Archaeology 129 (2025)
Hemingway, S., Review of: P. P. Betancourt, S. C. Ferrence & A. Giumlia-Mair, The Cretan Collection in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Vol. 3, Metal Objects from Gournia (Philadelphia 2023)
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Edited by Susan E. Allen, Robert Schon & R. Angus K. Smith
Pensylvania
This volume celebrates the contributions and impact of our mentor, colleague, and friend, James C. Wright, on the field of Aegean Bronze archaeology in recognition of his retirement from Bryn Mawr College. The title and thematic orientation reflect his scholarly attention to power inequalities in the past, particularly as manifested through social access to architectural spaces and landscapes.
Birgitta P. Hallager
Stockholm
The date of the destruction of the palace at Knossos on Crete has been one of the key problems of Aegean prehistory since the palace was excavated at the beginning of the 20th century. The excavator Arthur Evans argued for an LM II date as he presumed that the inscribed tablets found in the palace destruction layers must have been written by the people who had produced the large and richly adorned Palace Style jars which he dated to the LM II period.
Emmett L. Bennett Jr., José L. Melena, Dimitri Nakassis, Jean-Pierre Olivier & Thomas G. Palaima (eds)
Columbus
In 1939, on the first day of excavation on a hill in western Messenia, Carl W. Blegen uncovered a Mycenaean palace that he called The Palace of Nestor. Its archives contained clay tablets inscribed in the so-called Linear B script, a syllabary employed to record the Greek language.
