Many questions about the Middle and Late Cypriot Bronze Age remain unanswered, especially those concerned with chronology, social transformation and the development of local entities or industries. The title of this collection of papers “The Formation of Cyprus” was chosen to emphasize the fact that local community activities and trade on a local scale had a considerable influence on island-wide development and, in this instance, on the formation of society in the Bronze Age.
This is the account of an excavation by the British School at Athens at the major Mycenaean settlement in the central Eurotas valley of Laconia, close to the site of ancient and modern Sparta, in the south-central Peloponnese. The site was first identified and partly explored by the British School (under its sixth Director, R. M. Dawkins) in 1909-10. This volume presents the results of fieldwork undertaken by the School in 1973-77, 1980 and 1985, led by the then Director, H. W. Catling.
Βιβή Βασιλοπούλου και Στέλλα Κατσαρού-Τζεβελέκη (επιμέλεια)Δήμος Μαρκοπούλου Μεσογαίας2009
Πρόκειται για μια συλλογή 40 άρθρων (καθώς και μιας εναρκτήριας ομιλίας) από το συνέδριο Από τα Μεσόγεια στον Αργοσαρωνικό, που έλαβε χώρα στην Αθήνα στις 18-20 Δεκεμβρίου 2003. Στο βιβλίο παρουσιάζονται τα πρόσφατα ανασκαφικά αποτελέσματα της Β΄ Εφορείας Προïστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων στην Αττική, Πειραιά, Τροιζήνα, καθώς και στα Κύθηρα και Αντικύθηρα κατά τη δεκαετία 1994-2003 (από τότε η Β΄ Εφορεία έχει χωρισθεί σε δύο Εφορείες). Τα άρθρα παρουσιάζονται κατά γεωγραφική σειρά. Καθένα από αυτά περιέχει μια μικρή περίληψη στα αγγλικά.
Christoph Bachhuber and R. Gareth Roberts (επιμέλεια)Oxford 2009
The volume is the first in nearly a decade to focus a wide range of scholarship on one of the most compelling periods in the antiquity of the Mediterranean and Near East. It presents new interpretive approaches to the problems of the Bronze Age to Iron Age transformation, as well as re-assessments of a wide range of high profile sites and evidence ranging from the Ugaritic archives, Hazor, the Medinet Habu reliefs, Tiryns and Troy. Implications for a changing climate are also explored in the volume.
Verein zur Förderung der Aufarbeitung der Hellenischen Geschichte e.V. (επιμέλεια)Weilheim 2009
Στις 7 και 8 Μαΐου 2008, έλαβε χώρα στο Μόναχο (Gasteig) συμπόσιο με θέμα «Αρχιτεκτονικές παραδόσεις της εποχής του Χαλκού στην ανατολική Μεσόγειο: συγκλίσεις και αποκλίσεις». Την πρωτοβουλία και την οργάνωση είχε ο Σύλλογος για την Μελέτη και Διάδοση της Ελληνικής Ιστορίας, ο οποίος εδρεύει στο Weilheim της Βαυαρίας και έχει οργανώσει στο παρελθόν αρκετές επιστημονικές συναντήσεις φιλολογικού και αρχαιολογικού περιεχομένου. Συνδιοργανωτής ήταν ο Σύλλογος Αιγαίου Μονάχου.
Georgia Tsartsidou, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Nikos Efstratiou & Steve WeinerJournal of Archaeological Science 36.10 (October 2009): 2342-2352.
Phytolith analyses were conducted in a pottery Neolithic village (Makri) of Northern Greece in order to reconstruct aspects of past human activities as a function of both space and time. The analyses of phytolith assemblages were based on a reference collection of modern plant phytoliths, as well as an ethnographic study in an agropastoral community (Sarakini) in the same area that showed that many phytolith assemblages are characteristic of the activities carried out in different locations within and around the village.
Çiler ÇilingiroğluJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1 (2009): 3-27.
This study discusses the function(s) of Neolithic stamps and their designs by using two different lines of evidence. The function of the artifact itself is considered by using contextual information from the Neolithic site of Ulucak Höyük, located in the vicinity of İzmir in western Turkey. It will be argued that the co-occurrence of stamps with objects related to textile manufacturing – e.g. bone needles, spindle whorls and loom weights – at Ulucak allows us to interpret their function as stamps to make patterns, among other cultural media, on woven fabrics.
Paula Louise JonesJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1 (2009): 75-99.
This paper seeks to provide an alternative perspective on the portrayal of as exclusively ‘resources’ in the existing archaeological literature; it also re examines the relationships between humans and non-human animals in the Early Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus.
Maria Teresa Como Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History, Cottbus, (May 2009): 385-392.
The masonry dome, vaulted by means of the corbelling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, characterizes the Mycenaean tholos. The results, achieved researching the way by which the ‘Treasury of Atreus’ dome performs the actual condition of equilibrium and through the compilation of a complete survey, pointed out the display of the true-dome behaviour.
Curtis RunnelsJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1 (2009): 57-73.
Regional surveys in Greece have only rarely identified Mesolithic sites, which consist typically of small, unobtrusive scatters of microlithic artifacts. Recently, a site location model was used along with targeted surveys to identify Mesolithic sites in the Argolid, Epirus, and the Sporades, and the results suggest that the Mesolithic may have been overlooked in some early surveys because, in part, the characteristic features of Mesolithic assemblages were unknown at the time.
Το βιβλίο αποτελεί δημοσίευση των πρακτικών του συνεδρίου FYLO. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, που έλαβε χώρα τον Ιούνιο του 2005 στο Ρέθυμνο (Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης). Τα περισσότερα άρθρα γραμμένα στα αγγλικά και στα γαλλικά εστιάζουν σε θέματα γύρω από το φύλο στον αιγαιακό και εν γένει μεσογειακό χώρο κατά την Προϊστορία (από τα Παλαιολιθικά χρόνια μέχρι και την Εποχή του Χαλκού), ενώ μερικά άρθρα αναφέρονται στη συμβολή των γυναικών αρχαιολόγων στην αρχαιολογία και ειδικότερα στην προϊστορική αρχαιολογία του Αιγαίου.
This is a completely new and revised edition of Fire in the Sea: The Santorini Volcano, Natural History and the Legend of Atlantis (originally published by Cambridge University Press, 2000). When the Greek island of Santorini, classically known as Thera, dramatically erupted in 1613 BC 13 years, it produced one of the largest explosions ever witnessed, thereby possibly giving rise to the legend of Atlantis. This so-called ‘Minoan’ eruption triggered tsunamis that devastated coastal settlements in the region. On Santorini it left behind a Bronze Age Pompeii, which is now being excavated.
Beverly N. Goodman-Tchernov, Hendrik W. Dey, Eduard G. Reinhardt, Floyd McCoy & Yossi MartGeology 37 (2009): 943-946.
A sedimentary deposit on the continental shelf off Caesarea Maritima, Israel, is identified, dated, and attributed to tsunami waves produced during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1630–1550 B.C.) eruption of Santorini, Greece. The sheet-like deposit was found as a layer as much as 40 cm thick in four cores collected from 10 to 20 m water depths. Particle-size distribution, planar bedding, shell taphoecoensis, dating (radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence, and pottery), and comparison of the horizon to more recent tsunamigenic layers distinguish it from normal storm and typical marine conditions across a wide (>1 km2) lateral area.
Gavdos lies in the Libyan Sea, approximately 21 nautical miles (nm) off the closest south-west Cretan shores and is the south-easternmost European territory before Africa - Libya/Tobruk is c. 160nm away. This is an easily targeted landfall of almost 33km², with an irregular terrain, rising up to 368m. The island offers anchorages along the north, east and south coasts. North of Gavdos is a stepping stone, Gavdopoula (Little Gavdos).
In December 1883, a dispute began between Ernst Boetticher and Heinrich Schliemann over the latter’s interpretation of his research in Troy. After studying Schliemann’s book on his excavations in Troy, published in November 1880, Boetticher was convinced that Schliemann had misinterpreted the excavation results and had not found a settlement, but a fire-necropolis.