Carla AntonaccioJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 104-111
This paper focuses on reciprocity in the context of Bronze Age collapse and early Iron Age ‘reboot’. The highest level of Mycenaean hierarchy collapsed, but neither the entire system, nor the entire ideology, vanished with the palaces: the basileus and a warrior elite survived and moved into places of authority.
Dimitri Nakassis, Michael L. Galaty & William A. ParkinsonJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 61-132
This collection of papers is the third and final installment in a series meant to update the archaeological study of Aegean Bronze Age economies based on current research in economic anthropology and new archaeological and textual data from Minoan and Mycenaean states.
A preliminary, seven-phase Fine Gray Burnished (Gray Minyan) ceramic sequence has been developed at Mitrou, East Lokris, spanning the whole of the Middle Helladic period.
Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artifacts on Greek islands separated from the mainland in the Middle and Upper Pleistocene may be proxy evidence for maritime activity in the eastern Mediterranean.
Serena SabatiniOxford Journal of Archaeology 35.1 (2016): 29-45
Oxhide ingots are probably one of the most remarkable metal artefacts that ever circulated throughout the Mediterranean during the second millennium BC.
Shannon LaFayette HogueAmerican Journal of Archaeology 120.1 (January 2016): 151-157
In the past three decades, an Iron Age date for reoccupation of areas surrounding the Palace of Nestor on the Epano Englianos Ridge has become well attested, but the extent and nature of this reoccupation has remained unclear.
Catherine E. PrattAmerican Journal of Archaeology 120.1 (January 2016): 27-66
It is generally accepted that Cretan transport stirrup jars were the preferred bulk liquid transport container of the Late Bronze Age Aegean, but the reasons behind their invention, relatively rapid dissemination and widespread use, and sudden disappearance are not well understood.
Olympia PeperakiAmerican Journal of Archaeology 120.1 (January 2016): 3-25
Although the importance of seal use on the Greek mainland during the Early Bronze Age has long been recognized, its significance still remains difficult to grasp.
Michael FotiadisHesperia 85.1 (January-March 2016): 91-119
When Heinrich Schliemann appeared in the Aegean in the 1870s, prehistoric archaeology in Greece was headed for a future very different from the one that subsequently materialized.
Antonis KotsonasAmerican Journal of Archaeology 120.2 (April 2016): 239-270
Periodization is a fundamental exercise for archaeology and for historical studies in general, aimed primarily at clarity in communication. However, this exercise imposes particular modes of conceptualizing specific periods.
A. Bernard Knapp & Sturt W. ManningAmerican Journal of Archaeology 120.1 (January 2016): 99-149
Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within dominant polities or system collapse among them, inequalities between centers and peripheries, climatic change and natural disasters, disease/plague.
