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Βιβλιοκρισία του: Terracotta Statues and Figurines of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean: Provenance Studies

Fourrier, S. American Journal of Archaeology

Fourrier, S., 2010. Online review of V. Karageorghis, N. Kourou, V. Kilikoglou & M.D. Glascock (eds), Terracotta Statues and Figurines of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean: Provenance Studies (Nicosia 2009), American Journal of Archaeology 114.4 (October).

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Isotopic evidence for the primary production, provenance and trade of Late Bronze Age glass in the Mediterranean

J. Henderson, J. Evans & K. Nikita Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 10.1 (2010): 1-24.

The earliest known man made glass comes from Mesopotamia and dates to the 23rd century BC. By the 16th century BC the first glass vessels appear in Mesopotamia, but the earliest evidence for the fusion of glass from raw materials has been found at the 13th century BC Egyptian site of Qantir.

Flexible Stones. Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave

Anna Stroulia Bloomington & Indianapolis

Flexible Stones. Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave

Despite their ubiquitous presence among prehistoric remains in Greece, ground stone tools have yet to attract the same kind of attention as have other categories of archaeological material, such as pottery or lithics. As a consequence of this oversight the potential for this material to illuminate aspects of prehistoric life remains unexplored.

Models of relatedness and Early Helladic architecture: Unpacking the Early Helladic II hearth room

Olympia Peperaki Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23.2 (2010): 245-264.

This paper brings forward a particular architectural arrangement—the room with the central hearth—that becomes popular on the Greek mainland in Early Helladic II, in order to refocus analysis of the relationship between architecture and models of social organization proposed for this period.

The Minoan ‘Palace-Temple’ reconsidered: A Critical assessment of the spatial concentration of political, religious and economic power in Bronze Age Crete

Ilse Schoep Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23.2 (2010): 219-243.

Although aspects of Arthur Evans’s vision of Minoan society have undergone modification during the course of the 20th century, his basic interpretation of the monumental building complex with courts at Knossos as a Palace-Temple, or the residence of both a political and religious authority, remains the dominant paradigm in Minoan archaeology.

Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and Its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete

Andonis Vasilakis & Keith Branigan Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Moni Odigitria: A Prepalatial Cemetery and Its Environs in the Asterousia, Southern Crete This volume presents the final report on the excavation of two Prepalatial tholos tombs and their associated remains at Chatzinas Liophyto near the Moni Odigitria (monastery) in south-central Crete. The grave goods and burial remains include pottery, metal objects, chipped stones, stone vases, gold and stone jewelry, sealstones, and human skeletal material. The results of the associated survey of the upper catchment of the Hagiopharango region are also reported.

Le cuivre chypriote et la Crète. Les régions d’importation des lingots peau-de-bœuf

Florence Liard Revue archéologique 2010 (n° 1): 47-65.

Since the so-called “copper oxhide ingots” are considered one of the most common forms of raw copper exchange in the Mediterranean Late Bronze Age, the question of their provenance and function has received the attention of scholars. Cyprus has long been considered to be the centre of this international trade, due to the intense extraction which is attested on the island as early as the Early Bronze Age.