Walter L. Friedrich & Annette Højen SørensenPraehistorische Zeitschrift 85.2 (2010): 243-257.
The wall paintings from the ancient town of Akrotiri on the island of Thera, part of the Santorini island group, are among the most precious and well-preserved artworks of Late Bronze Age Aegean. The West House at Akrotiri has yielded a miniature fresco frieze depicting ships sailing from one harbour to another.
Vincenzo La RosaAnnuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente LXXXVII (2009) [2010]: 105-115.
Με βάση και την προσωπική εμπειρία, γίνεται προσπάθεια να διαγραφεί η πολύπλοκη μορφή του διευθυντή Levi, «ανακαινιστή» της Σχολής μετά το θλιβερό κλείσιμο της τα χρόνια του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Συγκεκριμένα, αναδεικνύεται η προσωπικότητα του άνδρα, του διοργανωτή, του ανθρώπου που πραγματοποιεί, και του δασκάλου.
J.M. Webb & D. FrankelLevant 42.2 (2010): 185-209.
Early Bronze Age communities on the north coast of Cyprus developed a distinctive ceramic tradition with a rich array of forms, including ritual vessels with symbolically complex decoration reflecting the importance of horned animals and other phenomena in a local cosmology.
Cheryl R. Floyd & Philip P. BetancourtHesperia 79.4 (2010): 465-498.
Excavations in 1996 and 1997 at Chrysokamino-Chomatas, a site near the Chrysokamino metallurgy workshop in East Crete, revealed two architectural phases from the Late Minoan period in addition to earlier (pre-LM IB) and later (post–Bronze Age) remains. The first architectural phase, destroyed in LM IB-Final, consisted of the poorly preserved walls of a single isolated building.
Aphrodite’s Kephali is a small hilltop site in Eastern Crete. Its pottery indicates that it was inhabited during Early Minoan I (EM I), ca. 3200–2700 B.C. The fortified site has a considerable amount of storage, including nine pithoi. The analysis by gas chromatography of sherds from the site indicates that vessels contained olive oil and wine.
A. Brysbaert & M. VettersMediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 10.2 (2010): 25-43.
This paper focuses on the materialization of technological practices as a form of identity expression. Contextual analyses of a Mycenaean workshop area in the Late Bronze Age citadel of Tiryns (Argolis, Greece) are presented to investigate the interaction of different artisans under changing socio‐political and economic circumstances.
This paper concerns the shells from the 1969-74 excavations at Sarepta (Lebanon) under the direction of the late J.B. Pritchard (University of Pennsylvania). Most of the 500 marine shells, ranging in date from the LB I to Roman/Byzantine, are typical Mediterranean forms.
J. Henderson, J. Evans & K. NikitaMediterranean 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.
Olympia PeperakiJournal 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.
Ilse SchoepJournal 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.
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.
Karin Nys, Melissa Samaes & Jan CoenaertsJournal of Prehistoric Religion XXII (2010): 57-61.
In 1988, the archaeological team under the direction of Paul Åström unearthed in Area 8 at Hala Sultan Tekke a building complex consisting of five rooms. Room 67 is the main room of this complex. The complex was interpreted as a sanctuary as its plan is considerable to that of sanctuaries at Kition and Enkomi.
Jason W. EarleJournal of Prehistoric Religion XXII (2010): 39-56.
Delos was a major religious centre in antiquity, yet the origins of this small island’s earliest known cults – those of Apollo, Artemis and Hera – are poorly understood. The author argues that sanctuaries dedicated to these deities developed in the Early Iron Age, mainly in the eighth century BC.
Stephanie Lynn BudinJournal of Prehistoric Religion XXII (2010): 7-38.
This article reconsiders both the presence and role of maternal, kourotrophic, and child-oriented iconography in the Minoan repertoire. Contrary to the received wisdom, the only kourotrophic iconography in Minoan Crete is not a Mycenaean-influenced figural group from Mavrospelio cemetery, but a strongly Egyptianizing plaque from Monastiraki.
E. Henton, W. Meier-Augenstein & H.F. KempArchaeometry 52.3 (June 2010): 429–449.
This paper presents a pilot study designed to test the use of oxygen isotopes for investigating aspects of early herding practices in the Neolithic of western Asia, using the site of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia as a case study. Time-sequenced δ18O values in dental enamel of archaeological sheep are assessed for post-depositional diagenetic effects and compared with seasonal δ18O meteoric water values in the region today. The evidence is used to indicate the environmental conditions in which individual sheep spent their first year, enabling management of breeding and birthing seasons, and movement to seasonal pastures, to be investigated.
