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ΑΡΘΡΑ | 2012

Crucibles from Palaikastro, East Crete: insights into metallurgical technology in the Aegean Late Bronze Age

Doniert Evely, Anno Hein & Eleni Nodarou Journal of Archaeological Science 39:6 (June) 2012: 1821-1836.

The recovery of two groups of crucibles from the Neopalatial and Postpalatial phases of the Bronze Age settlement at Palaikastro on Crete permits the investigation not only into how their fabric was made up, how they were used and what materials they were producing, but also to what extent these matters had changed in the two intervening centuries in the third quarter of the 2nd millennium BC.

Long-term agrarian landscapes in the Troodos foothills, Cyprus

Patricia L. Fall, Steven E. Falconer, Christopher S. Galletti, Tracy Shirmang, Elizabeth Ridder & JoAnna Klinge Journal of Archaeological Science 39:7 (July) 2012: 2335-2347.

We investigate the temporal and environmental relationships between the terraced hill slopes of Politiko-Koloiokremmos and the adjacent Bronze Age settlement of Politiko-Troullia in foothills of the Troodos Mountains, central Cyprus. Mapping of 102 stone walls on Koloiokremmos is compared with 66 walls farther afield on Cyprus to create a six-part terrace typology.

Characterization of organic media in the wall-paintings of the “Palace of Nestor” at Pylos, Greece: evidence for a secco painting techniques in the Bronze Age

H. Brecoulaki, A. Andreotti, I. Bonaduce, M.P. Colombini & A. Lluveras Journal of Archaeological Science 39:9 (September) 2012: 2866-2876.

This paper presents the results of an investigation of organic binding media detected in samples from the Mycenaean wall-paintings at the “Palace of Nestor” in Pylos (Western Messenia, Greece): samples dated from the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BC).

Βιβλιοκρισία του: Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age : Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World

Dasen, V. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

 

Dasen, V., 2012. Online review of Stephanie Lynn Budin, Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age : Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World (Cambridge 2011), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.08.35.

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Die Ausgrabungen in Bogazköy-Hattusa 2010

Andreas Schachner Archäologischer Anzeiger 2011/1: 31-86.

The excavations concentrate on the southern section of the Lower City. Enlargement of the excavation area has allowed to us to establish more precisely the chronological and structural development of this section.

Βιβλιοκρισία του: Poséidon souverain: contribution à l’histoire religieuse de la Grèce mycénienne et archaique

Doyen, C. Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Doyen, C., 2012. Online review of Sebastien Dalmon, Poséidon souverain: contribution à l’histoire religieuse de la Grèce mycénienne et archaique (Mémoire de la Classe des Lettres. Collection in-8°, 3e série, 55) (Bruxelles 2011), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.28

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Ais Giorkis: An unusual early Neolithic settlement in Cyprus

Alan Simmons Journal of Field Archaeology 37:2 (May 2012): 86-103.

For over a century, archaeologists have been intrigued by the inception of food production and sedentary lifeways, the so-called “Neolithic Revolution.” Research focused on the Near Eastern and Anatolian mainlands has documented some of the earliest Neolithic cultures known.

The influence of climatic change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages

Brandon L. Drake Journal of Archaeological Science 39:6 (June 2012): 1862-1870.

Between the 13th and 11th centuries BCE, most Greek Bronze Age Palatial centers were destroyed and/or abandoned. The following centuries were typified by low population levels. Data from oxygen-isotope speleothems, stable carbon isotopes, alkenone-derived sea surface temperatures, and changes in warm-species dinocysts and formanifera in the Mediterranean indicate that the Early Iron Age was more arid than the preceding Bronze Age.

The geoarchaeology of Mycenaean chamber tombs

Panagiotis Karkanas, Mary K. Dabney, R. Angus K. Smith & James C. Wright Journal of Archaeological Science 39:8 (August 2012): 2722-2732.

This study presents a revised methodology for the excavation and analysis of the stratigraphy in Mycenaean chamber tombs and other multi-use burials. For our excavation of chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira and Barnavos, Nemea, we followed a geoarchaeological approach to provide details about the process of backfilling and re-opening of the tombs and to identify the location, number, and slope of these re-openings.

Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant

Joanne Clarke Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22:2 (June 2012): 177-186.

During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods. Its properties of whiteness, purity, plasticity and antisepsis would have made it a natural choice for decorating, and through the act of colouring disparate categories of objects were linked together.

Palaikastro Block M. The Proto- and Neopalatial Town

Carl Knappett & Tim Cunningham London

Palaikastro Block M. The Proto- and Neopalatial Town Block M is a substantial architectural complex comprising three large buildings at the heart of the Minoan town of Palaikastro. With traces of activity stretching back to the Prepalatial period, and occupation in the Protopalatial period, Block M sees its most intensive use in the Neopalatial period, in the 17th century bc.

Immaterial landscapes: Homeric geography and the Ionian Islands in Greece

Gert Jan van Wijngaarden Quaternary International 251 (February 2012): 136-141.

To understand the human perception of landscapes in the past, archaeologists would require knowledge of the immaterial landscape elements: the stories that are connected to physical landscape features. One way of acquiring access to such stories is through written literature (poetry, prose), which has survived centuries and is connected to specific landscapes.

Pottery production and distribution in prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus. An application of pXRF analysis

David Frankel & Jennifer M. Webb Journal of Archaeological Science 39:5 (May 2012): 1380-1387.

Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) analysis of over 400 samples of Early and Middle Bronze Age Cypriot pottery from four widely separated sites identifies both local and non-local products at each. A series of analyses of sub-sets of the data highlights differences in the clays used at each site and for some distinctive types and wares.

Egyptian Ideas, Minoan Rituals: Evidence of the Interconnections between Crete and Egypt in the Bronze Age on the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus

Paula L. Martino Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 4:1 (March 2012): 31-50.

The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus, a painted limestone larnax, has been an enigma in the Minoan artistic canon since the time of its discovery in 1903. It is the only larnax found to date made of limestone, and the only one to contain a series of narrative scenes of Minoan funerary rituals.