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ΑΡΘΡΑ | 2009

Private pantries and celebrated surplus: storing and sharing food at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia

Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, Katheryn C. Twiss, Andrew Fairbairn, Nurcan Yalman, Dragana Filipović, G. Arzu Demirergi, Füsun Ertuğ, Nerissa Russell & Jennifer Henecke Antiquity 83, No. 321 (September 2009): 649–668.

In the Neolithic megasite at Çatalhöyük families lived side by side in conjoined dwellings, like a pueblo. It can be assumed that people were always in and out of each others’ houses – in this case via the roof. Social mechanisms were needed to make all this run smoothly, and in a tour-de-force of botanical, faunal and spatial analysis the authors show how it worked. Families stored their own produce of grain, fruit, nuts and condiments in special bins deep inside the house, but displayed the heads and horns of aurochs near the entrance. While the latter had a religious overtone they also remembered feasts, episodes of sharing that mitigated the provocations of a full larder.

The early management of cattle (Bos taurus) in Neolithic central Anatolia

Benjamin S. Arbuckle & Cheryl A. Makarewicz Antiquity 83, No. 321 (September 2009): 669–686.

The authors use metrical, demographic and body part analyses of animal bone assemblages in Anatolia to demonstrate how cattle were incorporated into early Neolithic subsistence economies. Sheep and goats were domesticated in the eighth millennium BC, while aurochs, wild cattle, were long hunted. The earliest domesticated cattle are not noted until the mid-seventh millennium BC, and derive from imported stock domesticated elsewhere. In Anatolia, meanwhile, the aurochs remains large and wild and retains its charisma as a hunted quarry and a stud animal.

Βιβλιοκρισία του: Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age: Proceedings of an International Symposium Held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, on November 19-21, 2004

Blackwell, N.G. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Blackwell, N.G., 2009. Online review of Iris Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age: Proceedings of an International Symposium Held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, on November 19-21, 2004 (Athens 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.02.18.

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Floor sequences in Neolithic Makri, Greece: micromorphology reveals cycles of renovation

Panagiotis Karkanas & Nikos Efstratiou Antiquity 83, No. 322 (December 2009): 955–967

Dating and examination of plaster floor sequences by micromorphology at a tell site in Greece shows when they were made and how they were composed. While numerous informal floor surfaces using recycled rubbish were put in place, as and when, by the occupants, formal floors rich in plaster seem to have been re-laid at regular intervals in reflection of a communal decision – even if the actual floors followed a recipe determined by each household. The authors rightly champion the potential of the technique as a possible indicator of social change at the household and settlement level.

For Gods or men? A reappraisal of the function of European Bronze Age shields

Barry Molloy Antiquity 83, No. 322 (December 2009): 1052–1064.

Are the imposing, decorated copper-alloy shields of Bronze Age Europe symbolic objects or functioning weapons? The author undertakes new analysis and experiments to conclude that whether bronze, leather or wood, all shields had a range of purpose in which the ceremonial and homicidal could rarely be completely isolated.

Βιβλιοκρισία του: Die Argissa-Magula, das frühe und das beginnende mittlere Neolithikum im lichte transägäischer Bezeihungen

Kouka, O. American Journal of Archaeology

Kouka, O., 2009. Online review of A. Reingruber, Deutschen Ausgrabungen auf der Argissa-Magula in Thessalien. Vol. 2, Die Argissa-Magula, das frühe und das beginnende mittlere Neolithikum im lichte transägäischer Bezeihungen (Bonn 2008), American Journal of Archaeology 113.3 (July).

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Βιβλιοκρισία του: Das Prähistorische Olynth: Ausgrabungen in der Toumba Agios Mamas 1994-1996. Die Spätbronseseitliche Handgemachte Keramik der Schichten 13 bis 1

Pavúk, P. American Journal of Archaeology

Pavúk, P., 2009. Online review of B. Horejs, Das Prähistorische Olynth: Ausgrabungen in der Toumba Agios Mamas 1994-1996. Die Spätbronseseitliche Handgemachte Keramik der Schichten 13 bis 1 (Rahden 2007), American Journal of Archaeology 113.3 (July).

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Βιβλιοκρισία του: The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. 1. Intra-site Analysis, Local Industries, and Regional Site Distribution

Button, S. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Button, S., 2009. Online review of A. Sampson, The Cave of the Cyclops: Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Vol. I. Intra-site Analysis, Local Industries, and Regional Site Distribution (Philadelphia 2006), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.08.21.

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Theodore Fyfe: Architect 1875-1945

Peter Soar Cambridge

Theodore Fyfe: Architect 1875-1945 Ο Theodore Fyfe (1875-1945) είναι ευρύτατα γνωστός ως ο αρχιτέκτονας του Arthur Evans κατά τα πρώτα χρόνια των ανασκαφών στην Κνωσό (1900-1904). Από το 1904 και εξής δούλεψε κατά βάση με τον John James Burnet στο Βρετανικό Μουσείο. Από το 1922 μέχρι το 1936, ήταν διευθυντής στο Cambridge School of Architecture, και από το 1926 μέχρι τη σύνταξη του το 1941 ήταν καθηγητής αρχιτεκτονικής στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Cambridge.

Kavousi IIA: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Summit

Leslie Preston Day, Nancy L. Klein & Lee Ann Turner contributions by Heidi Dierckx, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, Geraldine C. Gesell, David S. Reese, and Lynn Snyder Philadelphia, Pa.

Kavousi IIA: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. The Buildings on the Summit This volume is the second in the series of final reports on the work of the Kavousi Project and the first volume on the cleaning (1982–1984) and excavations (1987–1992) at the mountain sites located above the modern village of Kavousi in eastern Crete. These sites, Vronda and the Kastro, shed light on the Early Iron Age, the transitional period in Cretan history known popularly as the Dark Ages, thereby elucidating the way of life of the people who lived in the area of Kavousi during that period and how their culture changed over time.

Ubi dubium ibi libertas. Τιμητικός τόμος για τον καθηγητή Νικόλα Φαράκλα

Χρήστος Λούκος, Ναπολέων Ξιφαράς & Κλεάνθη Πατεράκη (επιμέλεια) Ρέθυμνο

Ubi dubium ibi libertas. Τιμητικός τόμος για τον καθηγητή Νικόλα Φαράκλα To Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας διοργάνωσε μια επιστημονική διημερίδα για να τιμήσει την ολοκλήρωση της επιτυχημένης πανεπιστημιακής παρουσίας του Νικόλα Φαράκλα στο Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης (Ερμηνευτικοί δρόμοι της Αρχαιολογίας. Η αντίληψη του χώρου και του όγκου και η μελέτη των αρχαιολογικών καταλοίπων, Ρέθυμνο 11-12 Δεκεμβρίου 2005).

The LMΙΙΙ Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia. The ‘Xanthoudidis Master’ and the Octopus Style in East Crete

Constantinos Paschalidis, με τη συμβολή της P.J.P. McGeorge Oxford

The LMΙΙΙ Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia. The ‘Xanthoudidis Master’ and the Octopus Style in East Crete Halfway along the mountainous route between the Ierapetra isthmus and Siteia, on the northern limits of the western mountain range of the Siteia province (eastern Crete), is the small village of Tourloti. Approximately 2.5 kilometres north of the village, on the hillside that drops down to the beach at Mochlos, on the site of Plakalona, is a LMIII chamber tomb cemetery. Richard B. Seager was the first to identify and excavate the site in 1900.

Η Ήλιδα και η ευρύτερη περιοχή της κατά τη μυκηναϊκή εποχή

Ολυμπία Βικάτου Στο Η. Ανδρέου & Ι. Ανδρέου-Ψυχογιού (επιμ.), 2009. Ήλις, παρελθόν, παρόν και μέλλον. Πρακτικά εκδήλωσης προς τιμήν Ν. Γιαλούρη (Ήλις, 13 Αυγούστου 2006) (Πύργος Ηλείας): 21-36.

Η συγγραφέας εξετάζει την περιοχή της Ηλείας κατά τη μυκηναϊκή περίοδο. Έμφαση δίνεται στην περιοχή της Αγίας Τριάδας, όπου βρέθηκαν 50 θαλαμωτοί τάφοι (40 στη θέση Αγιάννης και 10 στη θέση Σπηλιές). Συμπεριλαμβάνεται έγχρωμο φωτογραφικό υλικό πολλών ευρημάτων.