NEW ARTICLES
Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Antiquity 86.331 (March 2012): 144-160.
The sanctuary on the island of Keros takes the form of deposits of broken marble vessels and figurines, probably brought severally for deposition from elsewhere in the Cyclades. These acts of devotion have now been accurately dated, thanks to Bayesian analyses of the contemporary stratigraphic sequence on the neighbouring islet of Dhaskalio.
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Evi Gorogianni
Hesperia 80:4 (2011): 635-655.
A biographical approach to the study of material culture reveals that an object’s meaning usually varies in different episodes of its life history. This article examines the terracotta statues from the temple at Ayia Irini on Kea in three contexts of experience: (1) their initial context in the Bronze Age temple; (2) their reuse in the Iron Age phase of the temple; and (3) their “permanent” exhibition in the Archaeological Museum of Kea.
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Iερά και θρησκευτικές τελετουργίες στην Ανακτορική και Μετανακτορική Μυκηναϊκή περίοδο (Sanctuaries and cult practices in the Palatial and Postpalatial Mycenaean period)
Dimitra Rousioti
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 2012
This thesis deals with Mycenaean religious activity through the investigation of locales where sanctuaries and confirmed cult practices can be traced in the flourishing period of the palatial political and economic system and the period after its collapse.
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Two new Linear B tablets from the Late Bronze Age settlement at ‘Kastro-Palaia’ in Volos: from the excavations of Dimitrios R. Theocharis to the results of the recent interdisciplinary investigations (in Greek)
Evangelia Skafida, Jean-Pierre Olivier & Artemis Karnava
Μεταξύ των ετών 1956 και 1961 ο Δημήτριος Θεοχάρης, τότε Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων Θεσσαλίας και εταίρος της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας, πραγματοποίησε ανασκαφές στον λόφο του Κάστρου των «Παλαιών», της συνοικίας που αποτελεί τον ιστορικό πυρήνα της σύγχρονης πόλης του Βόλου. Ο Θεοχάρης θέλησε να εξετάσει την ορθότητα της θεωρίας του Χρήστου Τσούντα, που είχε διατυπώσει από τις αρχές του 20ου αι., σύμφωνα με την οποία ο λόφος των «Παλαιών» ταυτίζεται με την αρχαία Ιωλκό.
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Bennet, J., 2012. Review of Giorgos Vavouranakis (ed.), 2011. The Seascape in Aegean Prehistory, Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, vol. 14, Athens: The Danish Institute at Athens. Aegean Book Reviews 16-05-2012.
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Aegeus Annual Meeting on 23 May 2012
We would like to thank you all for attending Aegeus Annual Meeting that took place at the Upper House of the British School at Athens on 23 May 2011!
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The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus
Στο φως το ανάκτορο της Θήβας
The March, April and May 2012 issues of Nestor are available now for download
34th Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group
Liverpool, 17-19 December 2012
Deadline: 30 June 2012
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Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference (POCA) 2012
Germany, University of Erlagen, 23-25 November 2012
Deadline: 31 July 2012
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