Richard Jones, Sara T. Levi, Marco Bettelli & Lucia Vagnetti Ρώμη2014
This volume presents the fruits of research that began in the 1980s concerning a class of pottery that has assumed increasing importance in Italian late prehistory, namely pottery of Mycenaean type or style, usually decorated, dating from the 17th to 11th century BC, and found throughout peninsular Italy, Sicily and Sardinia.
Britt M. StarkovichJournal of Archaeological Science 52 (December 2014), 39-55
This paper evaluates a long sequence of zooarchaeological remains from Klissoura Cave 1 (southern Greece) within the paradigm of evolutionary ecology. The prey choice, central place foraging, and patch choice models are applied to the dataset in order to understand subsistence shifts related to local resource depression and changes in the intensity of site use from the Middle Paleolithic through Mesolithic.
Thomas P. LeppardJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 231-254
It has been suggested that the islands of the Mediterranean were first settled during the Pleistocene. Attention has in particular been paid to recent claims that the occupation of Crete by hominins dates to the Middle Pleistocene.
Nellie Phoca-Cosmetatou & Ryan J. RabettJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 255-259
We are extremely pleased that the topic of hominin island occupation has attracted particular attention in this issue of JMA in the two fascinating and contrasting papers by Runnels and Leppard. These two papers set out to address similar questions, namely: ‘was there an early Palaeolithic human presence on the Mediterranean islands?’ and ‘why has it been so elusive?’
Cyprian BroodbankJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 267-272
The debate over the extent and significance of Palaeolithic maritime activity in the Mediterranean stands in danger of unhelpful polarisation and dumbing down of its crucial subtleties, a process by which we would all turn out to be the long-term losers.
Curtis RunnelsJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 272-274
In the spirit of open discussion advocated by Broodbank, I welcome Leppard’s stimulating contribution, as well as the thoughtful comments of the discussants. It is evident that where my work is concerned some of my colleagues have difficulty accepting parts of the evidence, or find some hypotheses too far reaching.
Thomas P. LeppardJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27.2 (2014), 275-278
I am writing this response while sitting in Guam, the largest island in Micronesia. Bathed in sunlight for half the year, drenched by rain the other, surrounded by shallow, productive seas, and tropically verdant, Guam should, accordingly, have been an ideal environment for hominins during Quaternary interstadials.
Pascal Darcque, Martin Schmid & Aleydis van de MoortelΑθήνα
This volume is the first in a series publishing the results of the excavations carried out in the area immediately northeast of the palace of Malia. It presents the history of research and a period-by-period overview describing each building, room, and space with a complete inventory of the associated finds, including some C14-dated samples.
Ο παρών τόμος συγκεντρώνει τις εργασίες δέκα μεταπτυχιακών φοιτητών Α΄ κύκλου οι οποίες εκπονήθηκαν κατά τη διάρκεια του μεταπτυχιακού σεμιναρίου στο Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών με θέμα «Η ιστορία της προϊστορικής έρευνας στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη κατά τον 19ο και 20ό αιώνα».
This is the first of five planned volumes to present the primary archaeological report about the excavation of the cave of Hagios Charalambos in eastern Crete. The Minoans used this small cavern as an ossuary for the secondary burial of human remains and grave goods, primarily during the Early and Middle Bronze Age.
Loeta Tyree, Floyd McCoy, Jon Frey & Antonia StamosJournal of Field Archaeology 39:2 (May 2014), 180-192
Interpreting cave use, especially from antiquity, requires the perception of subterranean space in all dimensions (floor to ceiling to lateral extent) including spatial variability resulting from geological factors. Subterranean conditions, coupled with variable atmospheric conditions, create a special environment not readily conveyed by conventional mapping techniques limited to two-dimensional floor plans.
Myrto GeorgakopoulouJournal of Field Archaeology 39:1 (February 2014), 67-83
This paper explores the potential of studying metallurgical remains recovered during regional surveys in the reconstruction of past metallurgical practices across a given landscape, using as a case study the relevant finds from the Kythera Island Project.
R.E. Taylor & Ofer Bar-Yosef Walnut Creek, California
This volume represents a second edition of Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective, written in the late 1980s by the first author. The most dramatic advances in 14C studies since that time have included the further detailed examination of the relationship between radiocarbon time and solar (“real” or calendar) time, particularly the extension of the calibration of the radiocarbon time scale into the late Pleistocene
Η εμφάνιση του φαινομένου της κεραμικής στις αρχαίες κοινωνίες, ως τεχνολογία και ως σκεύος με ποικίλες διαστάσεις, αποτελεί ένα από τα πιο παλιά προβλήματα της αρχαιολογίας. Ειδικά για τον ελλαδικό χώρο, η κατασκευή και χρήση κεραμικών σκευών έχει συνδεθεί άρρηκτα με τις πρώιμες νεολιθικές κοινότητες, μαζί με τη μόνιμη εγκατάσταση και τη γεωργοκτηνοτροφία, αποτελώντας μία από τις πρακτικές που διαμόρφωσαν την ανθρώπινη ιστορία.
Το διάστημα 3-5 Οκτωβρίου 2012, 65 εγγεγραμμένοι σύνεδροι παρουσίασαν 50 πρωτότυπες εργασίες στη διάρκεια του 3ου Συμποσίου ARCH_RNT-Αρχαιολογική Έρευνα και Νέες Τεχνολογίες που διοργανώθηκε από το Εργαστήριο Αρχαιομετρίας και φιλοξενήθηκε στο Τμήμα Ιστορίας, Αρχαιολογίας και Διαχείρισης Πολιτισμικών Αγαθών του Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου, στη Σχολή Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστημών και Πολιτισμικών Σπουδών της Καλαμάτας.