Silvia FerraraOxford Journal of Archaeology 35.3 (2016): 227-245
This paper considers the roles played by scribes on Cyprus towards the end of the Late Bronze Age and the organization of the scribal community and its activity, drawing a parallel with the class of scribes at Ugarit-Ras Shamra in Syria.
Alexandra AlexandridouAmerican Journal of Archaeology 120.3 (July 2016): 333-360
Attic mortuary practices of the last three decades of the eighth century B.C.E. (Late Geometric [LG] II) are principally marked by the dominance for adults of inhumation over cremation. Nevertheless, this transformation was not universally applied at all burial sites in Attica.
This article offers a reanalysis of the ceramic assemblage from room 60, one of the pantries of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos. The study is based on the original 1966 publication by Blegen and Rawson, excavation notebooks, archive photographs, and personal investigation of the pottery recovered from that room.
John K. PapadopoulosAntiquity 90.353 (October 2016): 1238-1254
Inscriptions on new archaeological finds in the Aegean, examined alongside linguistic evidence relating to Greek and Phrygian vowels, are here used to explore the origins and spread of the Greek alphabet.
The aim of this paper is to rethink the Minoan peak sanctuaries of East Crete from a walking perspective. Walking will be used as a mean of understanding and embodying the landscape of East Cretan peak sanctuaries, as the only way that someone could reach to a peak sanctuary was (and is) on foot.
The formation of a state on Crete at the beginning of the second millennium BC has usually been considered under the secondary state paradigm. Most explanations rely on the role of conspicuous consumption and emulation mechanisms at a time when Cretan elites were exposed to the developed stratified systems of the east Mediterranean.
Sofia VoutsakiJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 70-78
In this paper, I examine the role of reciprocal relations in processes of social change. More precisely, I discuss the transformation of modes of interaction and sumptuary behavior across a long period, from the collapse of the Early Bronze Age proto-urban societies, through the slow recovery during the Middle Bronze Age, to the intensification of social change during the transition to the Mycenaean period
We present here the preliminary results of four seasons of excavation (2007-2010) within the Ayia Triada Cave, located in the vicinity of Karystos in southern Euboia.
Erwin CookJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 94-104
A modified version of Marshall Sahlins’s model of reciprocity, which maps the modes of reciprocity across kinship distance, helps elucidate reciprocity in Homer. With important qualifications, Homeric reciprocity can also elucidate the social realities of Archaic Greece.
Daniel J. PullenJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 78-88
Reciprocity has seen much less attention by Aegean archaeologists than other economic concepts such as redistribution, largely because of an assumption that reciprocity is characteristic of ‘egalitarian’ or less developed societies, as well as a related interest in political economies of more complex (palatial) societies, which are assumed to be characterized by redistribution.
Bryan E. BurnsJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 88-94
This contribution broadens the scope of the discussion to consider reciprocity in relation to acts of Mycenaean exchange that extend beyond the Aegean.
Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Kathryn Campeau & Kyle FreundJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 3-36
This paper details the results of a survey of the obsidian sources on the island of Giali in the Dodecanese, Greece, together with a review of these raw materials’ use from the Mesolithic to the Late Bronze Age (ninth to second millennium Cal BC).
Sarah P. MorrisJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology 29.1 (2016): 111-118
This response to a set of wide-ranging papers on the dimensions of reciprocity in Bronze Age Greece introduces three areas for further research, in order to expand the framework in terms of gender, space, and time.
