ΑΡΘΡΑ | 2017
Variability of ceramic production and consumption on the Greek mainland during the middle stages of the Late Bronze Age: the waterpots from the Menelaion, Sparta
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36.3 (2017): 243-266
The study highlights survival of pottery traditions with roots in the Middle Helladic period well into the Late Bronze Age, a fact that has not received appropriate attention in the scholarly discourse. It captures the very last stage of their existence, as just a few decades later the production and consumption are entirely dominated by Mycenaean pottery.I will follow you into the dark: death and emotion in a Mycenaean royal funeral
Oxford Journal of Archaeology 36.4 (2017): 395-412
In this paper, I introduce the various categories of evidence and draw on them to support an imaginative reconstruction of an event that happened, but which is not recorded in any historical sources – the death and burial of a great king of Mycenae.Early ceramics in Anatolia: implications for the production and use of the earliest pottery. The evidence from Boncuklu Höyük
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27.2 (May 2017): 351-369
Fragments of possible fired clay found at Boncuklu Höyük, central Turkey, appear to derive from rudimentary vessels, despite the later ninth- and early eighth-millennium cal. bc and thus ‘Aceramic’ dates for the site. This paper will examine the evidence for such fired clay vessels at Boncuklu and consider their implications as examples of some of the earliest pottery in Anatolia.Contrasting histories in Early Bronze Age Aegean: uniformity, regionalism and the resilience of societies in the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete
Cambridge Archaeological Society 27.3 (August 2017): 479-494
Late Early Bronze Age (EB IIB–III, 2500–2000 bc ) evidence from the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete present two coeval sequences of events with very different societal outcomes. By drawing on resilience theory and the model of adaptive cycles, this article explores when and why the paths of mainland Greece and Crete diverged around 2200 bc, leading to an eventually destabilizing change on the mainland and a more sustainable one on Crete.Interactions and -isations in the Aegean and beyond
Antiquity 91.355 (2017): 250-253
The question of ‘-isations’, such as ‘Romanisation’, has been a concern of archaeologists for many years; here it is ‘-isations’ of the prehistoric Aegean world that are the focus of attention.Dating Knossos and the arrival of the earliest Neolithic in the southern Aegean
Antiquity 91.356 (2017): 304-321
The results from Crete and western Anatolia suggest that an earlier, small-scale Aceramic colonisation preceded the later Neolithic reoccupation of Knossos.Mycenaeans in Bavaria? Amber and gold from the Bronze Age site of Bernstorf
Antiquity 91.359 (2017): 1382-1385
In August 1998 the German archaeological world was stunned when two amateur archaeologists found decorated gold-sheet ornaments on a hill in Bavaria north of Munich, near a farm named Bernstorf, in the commune of Kranzberg. A Bronze Age fortified enclosure was known there, local amateurs having excavated it earlier in the 1990s; later, permission was granted for gravel extraction, trees were cleared and it was in this disturbed area that the gold appeared.Tracing textile cultures of Italy and Greece in the early first millennium BC
Antiquity 91.359 (2017): 1205-1222
Recent analysis of Iron Age textiles from Italy and Greece indicates that, despite the use of similar textile technologies at this time, Italy shared the textile culture of Central Europe, while Greece largely followed the Near Eastern traditions of textile production.Working for a feast: textual evidence for state-organized work feasts in Mycenaean Greece
American Journal of Archaeology 121.2 (April 2017): 219-236
Communal feasting has provoked much interest among scholars of Aegean prehistory. Discussions of the archaeological, archaeozoological, and textual data of the Mycenaean Palatial period have provided important insights into the role of this ritual practice as part of a sociopolitical strategy of the Mycenaean elite.Βιβλιοκρισία του M. Kramer-Hajos, Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World: Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age
Cambridge Archaeological Society 27.4 (2017): 703-704
Murray, S., Βιβλιοκρισία του: M. Kramer-Hajos, Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World: Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age (Cambridge 2016), Cambridge Archaeological Society 27.4 (2017): 703-704.
Communication networks, interactions, and social negotiation in Prepalatial south-central Crete
American Journal of Archaeology 121.1 (January 2017): 5-37
The results of the GIS analyses emphasize that circular tombs were as a rule constructed near optimal paths. Nevertheless, the spatial pattern testifies to synchronic and diachronic variations, which, examined in the light of the distribution of non-Cretan grave goods, support the conclusion of previous research that different social strategies underlay the appearance and adoption of this burial type throughout the study area.Foodways in Early Mycenaean Greece: innovative cooking sets and social hierarchy at Mitrou and other settlements on the Greek mainland
American Journal of Archaeology 121.2 (April 2017): 183-217
Through the analysis of the cooking pottery repertoire, I investigate the issue of how food was manipulated by those competing for status. I argue that the appearance of innovative cooking utensils and their sets can be associated with changes in food-preparation practices, leading to more elaborate cuisine.Βιβλιοκρισία του C. Renfrew, O. Philaniotou, N. Brodie, G. Gavalas & M. Boyd (eds), Kavos and the Special Deposits: the Sanctuary on Keros and the Origins of Aegean Ritual
Antiquity 91.355 (2017): 260-261
Kyriakidis, E., Βιβλιοκρισία του: C. Renfrew, O. Philaniotou, N. Brodie, G. Gavalas & M. Boyd (eds), Kavos and the Special Deposits: the Sanctuary on Keros and the Origins of Aegean Ritual (Cambridge 2016), Antiquity 91.355 (2017): 260-261.
Βιβλιοκρισία του P. Sotirakopoulou, The Pottery from Dhaskalio
Antiquity 91.358 (2017): 1105-1107
Gorogianni, E., 2017, Βιβλιοκρισία του: P. Sotirakopoulou, The Pottery from Dhaskalio (Cambridge 2016) Antiquity 91.358 (2017): 1105-1107.