To date, archaeobotanical records for Late Bronze Age Cyprus provide little insight into agricultural activity of the time, such as specific farming systems and cultivation practices. This paper presents the results of an archaeobotanical study for the site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos (LC IIC, c. 1230–1170 BCE): a short-lived settlement that existed towards the end of the Late Bronze Age during a time often referred to as the crisis years on account of increasing mobility of people, violence and aridity throughout the Eastern Mediterranean.
Diego Capra, Isabella Caricola, Giulio Lucarini, Giuseppina Mutri, Evi Margaritis, Michael J. Boyd, †Colin RenfrewJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports 74, 2026: 105946
Dhaskalio is a small and steep-sided islet at the western end of the island of Keros in the central Cyclades. Excavations carried out between 2006–2008 and 2016–2018 brought to light the remains of extensive architecture on Dhaskalio and a ritual area of significant importance in the Kavos area of Keros, both dated to the mid-third millennium BCE.
Within the dynamic exchange networks of the Mediterranean Late Bronze Age, copper ingots are central to reconstructing the scale, organization, and intensity of economic and cultural contact. Yet, whether Late Bronze Age copper ingots derived from a single copper source or were mixed among sources has remained largely unresolved, obscuring their provenance.
This paper presents part of the research conducted in the framework of the MCSA LiTechAe project exploring the percussive tools and techniques used for stone dressing in monumental architecture in the 2nd millennium BC Aegean world on the basis of experiments and use-wear analysis.
The aim of this preliminary pilot study is to develop methods for the observation and characterisation of Aegean Bronze Age stone arrowheads. This will allow us to reconstruct the techniques employed for their manufacture.
Agios Vasileios, a major Late Bronze Age site in Laconia known since the late 1960s, has gained renewed scholarly attention over the past decade following the discovery of Linear B tablets.
Anja B. Frank , Ioanna Moutafi, Serena Sabatini, Robert Frei, Sofia Voutsaki, Raphaël Orgeolet, Vassilis Lambrinoudakis, Lazaros Kolonas, Jörg Rambach, Michael Boyd, Evi Margaritis, Kristian Kristiansen & Karin M. FreiPLoS One 21(9) 2026: e0357576
The Mediterranean region saw significant socio-economic and cultural transformations during the Bronze Age, varying across regions and through time. Expanding exchange networks played an important role in these developments by connecting distant communities.
