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This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, ... more This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on 'Technologies of Representation' and 'Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean'. Each was designed to capture current developments in these interrelated research areas and also to help elide boundaries between 'science-based' and 'humanities-based' approaches, and between those focused on written communication (especially its content) and those interested in broader modes of communication. Contributions are arranged thematically in three groups: the first concerns primarily non-written communication, the third mainly written communication, while the second blurs this somewhat arbitrary distinction. Topics in the first group include how ritual architecture is represented in the Knossos wall-paintings; a re-interpretation of the 'Harvester Vase' from Ayia Triada; the use of colour in wall-paintings at Late Bronze Age Pylos; the use of painted media to represent depictions in other (lost) media such as cloth; and re-readings of Aegean representations of warfare and of the sequence of grave stelae at Mycenae. In the second group Linear B texts and archaeological data are used to explore further the colour palette used at Pylos, how people were represented diacritically through taste and smell, and how different qualities of time were expressed both textually and materially; the roles of images in Aegean scripts, complemented by a Peircian analysis of early Cretan writing; and a consideration of the complementary role of (non-literate) sealing and (literate) writing practices. Topics in the third group range from defining Aegean writing itself, through the contexts for literacy and how the Linear B script represented language, to a historical exploration of early attempts at deciphering Linear B.
This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeolo... more This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in western Messenia in Greece. An introduction, setting the project in context, and an extensive gazetteer of sites precede a collection of eight previously published articles, which appeared in Hesperia, the journal of the ASCSA, between 1997 and 2010. Taken together, these contributions document a comprehensive methodological approach by an archaeological project that was one of the first to incorporate new technologies such as digital mapping tools and online databases. The results of such a long-term and multifaceted research program illuminate the shifting relationships between humans, their landscapes, and historical forces, both local and distant.
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swin... more The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between ‘fundamentalist’ attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach – archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history – to help offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly prolonged creation, aspects of their ‘prehistory’, and what they may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written history.
The effects of the Homeric epics on the history and popular reception of archaeology, especially in the particular context of modern Germany, is also a theme that is explored here. Contributors explore a variety of issues - across a range of examples from the ancient Near East to 19th-century Greece - including the relationships between visual and verbal imagery, the social contexts of epic (or sub-epic) creation or re-creation, the roles of bards and their relationships to different types of patrons and audiences, the construction and uses of ‘history’ as traceable through both epic and archaeology and the relationship between ‘prehistoric’ (oral) and ‘historical’ (recorded in writing) periods. Throughout, the emphasis is on context and its relevance to the creation,
transmission, re-creation and manipulation of epic in the present (or near-present) as well as in the ancient Greek past.
(For a copy of a particular chapter, please contact the relevant author)
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swin... more The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach – archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history – to help offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly prolonged creation, aspects of their 'prehistory', and what they may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written history.
The effects of the Homeric epics on the history and popular reception of archaeology, especially in the particular context of modern Germany, is also a theme that is explored here. Contributors explore a variety of issues including the relationships between visual and verbal imagery, the social contexts of epic (or sub-epic) creation or re-creation, the roles of bards and their relationships to different types of patrons and audiences, the construction and uses of 'history' as traceable through both epic and archaeology and the relationship between 'prehistoric' (oral) and 'historical' (recorded in writing) periods. Throughout, the emphasis is on context and its relevance to the creation, transmission, re-creation and manipulation of epic in the present (or near-present) as well as in the ancient Greek past.
ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ (athyrmata): Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many... more ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ (athyrmata): Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many areas of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Europe, deploying a canny eye for detail, but never losing sight of the big picture. Her collected works include contributions on the relationship between Homeric epic and archaeology; the economy of ceramics, metals and other materials; the status of the ‘Sea Peoples’ and other ethnic terminologies; routes and different forms of interaction; and the history of museums/collecting (especially relating to Sir Arthur Evans).
The editors of this volume have brought together a cast of thirty-two scholars from nine different countries who have contributed these twenty-six papers to mark Sue’s 65th birthday – a collection that seeks to reflect both her broad range of interests and her ever-questioning approach to uncovering the realities of life in Europe and the Mediterranean in later prehistory.
How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions o... more How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt in Sheffield in April 2008 and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from from "world-systems" through "ritual economies" to "textile rivalries" and address the challenge of documenting, explaining and understanding the progressively more interwoven worlds of prehistoric Eurasia.
Papers by John Bennet
The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives, 2019
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2020
Before the crisis Can you give us an overview of the archaeological research conducted by the UK ... more Before the crisis Can you give us an overview of the archaeological research conducted by the UK in Libya since the 2000s? Most British archaeological work has been co-ordinated (and often funded) through the London-based Society for Libyan Studies, which has equivalent status to the British Schools and Institutes overseas, but without having overseas premises. In the early 2000s, the major projects were the Fazzan Project (1997-2002, PI David Mattingly, comprising diachronic work, but with a...
Archaeological Reports, 2018
This article, based on an oral presentation by the author at its Annual General Meeting in Februa... more This article, based on an oral presentation by the author at its Annual General Meeting in February 2018, summarizes the activities of the British School at Athens with a focus on the calendar year 2017. It describes – selectively and concisely – research by award holders, BSA-sponsored fieldwork in 2017 at six locations (Olynthos, Koutroulou Magoula, Prosilio, Kythera, Dhaskalio-Keros and Knossos), research and events associated with the Fitch Laboratory and the Knossos Research Centre, plus other activities of the BSA in Greece and the UK, including seminars, conferences and workshops.
Minos Revista De Filologia Egea, 1998
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2014
Inaugurated in January 1954, the ‘Minoan Linear B Seminar’ explored the information emerging from... more Inaugurated in January 1954, the ‘Minoan Linear B Seminar’ explored the information emerging from Ventris' decipherment of Linear B in 1952. The new academic discipline of ‘Mycenaean Studies’ rapidly moved on from questions influenced by the field's ‘pre-history’ dating back a further 60 years to Evans' first publication on Aegean scripts. Intense philological and epigraphical research in the 1950s and 1960s laid the foundations for comparative study of the Mycenaean palatial societies, while a greater appreciation of archaeological data and contexts moved interpretation on in the 1980s and 1990s. Building on this tradition, Mycenaean studies currently needs more documents to sustain a ‘critical mass’ of researchers and, ideally, a new Ventris to unlock the Aegean scripts that remain undeciphered.
This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, ... more This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on 'Technologies of Representation' and 'Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean'. Each was designed to capture current developments in these interrelated research areas and also to help elide boundaries between 'science-based' and 'humanities-based' approaches, and between those focused on written communication (especially its content) and those interested in broader modes of communication. Contributions are arranged thematically in three groups: the first concerns primarily non-written communication, the third mainly written communication, while the second blurs this somewhat arbitrary distinction. Topics in the first group include how ritual architecture is represented in the Knossos wall-paintings; a re-interpretation of the 'Harvester Vase' from Ayia Triada; the use of colour in wall-paintings at Late Bronze Age Pylos; the use of painted media to represent depictions in other (lost) media such as cloth; and re-readings of Aegean representations of warfare and of the sequence of grave stelae at Mycenae. In the second group Linear B texts and archaeological data are used to explore further the colour palette used at Pylos, how people were represented diacritically through taste and smell, and how different qualities of time were expressed both textually and materially; the roles of images in Aegean scripts, complemented by a Peircian analysis of early Cretan writing; and a consideration of the complementary role of (non-literate) sealing and (literate) writing practices. Topics in the third group range from defining Aegean writing itself, through the contexts for literacy and how the Linear B script represented language, to a historical exploration of early attempts at deciphering Linear B.
This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeolo... more This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in western Messenia in Greece. An introduction, setting the project in context, and an extensive gazetteer of sites precede a collection of eight previously published articles, which appeared in Hesperia, the journal of the ASCSA, between 1997 and 2010. Taken together, these contributions document a comprehensive methodological approach by an archaeological project that was one of the first to incorporate new technologies such as digital mapping tools and online databases. The results of such a long-term and multifaceted research program illuminate the shifting relationships between humans, their landscapes, and historical forces, both local and distant.
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swin... more The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between ‘fundamentalist’ attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach – archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history – to help offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly prolonged creation, aspects of their ‘prehistory’, and what they may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written history.
The effects of the Homeric epics on the history and popular reception of archaeology, especially in the particular context of modern Germany, is also a theme that is explored here. Contributors explore a variety of issues - across a range of examples from the ancient Near East to 19th-century Greece - including the relationships between visual and verbal imagery, the social contexts of epic (or sub-epic) creation or re-creation, the roles of bards and their relationships to different types of patrons and audiences, the construction and uses of ‘history’ as traceable through both epic and archaeology and the relationship between ‘prehistoric’ (oral) and ‘historical’ (recorded in writing) periods. Throughout, the emphasis is on context and its relevance to the creation,
transmission, re-creation and manipulation of epic in the present (or near-present) as well as in the ancient Greek past.
(For a copy of a particular chapter, please contact the relevant author)
The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swin... more The relationship between the Homeric epics and archaeology has long suffered mixed fortunes, swinging between 'fundamentalist' attempts to use archaeology in order to demonstrate the essential historicity of the epics and their background, and outright rejection of the idea that archaeology is capable of contributing anything at all to our understanding and appreciation of the epics. Archaeology and the Homeric Epic concentrates less on historicity in favour of exploring a variety of other, perhaps sometimes more oblique, ways in which we can use a multi-disciplinary approach – archaeology, philology, anthropology and social history – to help offer insights into the epics, the contexts of their possibly prolonged creation, aspects of their 'prehistory', and what they may have stood for at various times in their long oral and written history.
The effects of the Homeric epics on the history and popular reception of archaeology, especially in the particular context of modern Germany, is also a theme that is explored here. Contributors explore a variety of issues including the relationships between visual and verbal imagery, the social contexts of epic (or sub-epic) creation or re-creation, the roles of bards and their relationships to different types of patrons and audiences, the construction and uses of 'history' as traceable through both epic and archaeology and the relationship between 'prehistoric' (oral) and 'historical' (recorded in writing) periods. Throughout, the emphasis is on context and its relevance to the creation, transmission, re-creation and manipulation of epic in the present (or near-present) as well as in the ancient Greek past.
ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ (athyrmata): Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many... more ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ (athyrmata): Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many areas of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Europe, deploying a canny eye for detail, but never losing sight of the big picture. Her collected works include contributions on the relationship between Homeric epic and archaeology; the economy of ceramics, metals and other materials; the status of the ‘Sea Peoples’ and other ethnic terminologies; routes and different forms of interaction; and the history of museums/collecting (especially relating to Sir Arthur Evans).
The editors of this volume have brought together a cast of thirty-two scholars from nine different countries who have contributed these twenty-six papers to mark Sue’s 65th birthday – a collection that seeks to reflect both her broad range of interests and her ever-questioning approach to uncovering the realities of life in Europe and the Mediterranean in later prehistory.
How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions o... more How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt in Sheffield in April 2008 and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from from "world-systems" through "ritual economies" to "textile rivalries" and address the challenge of documenting, explaining and understanding the progressively more interwoven worlds of prehistoric Eurasia.
The Culture of Ships and Maritime Narratives, 2019
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2020
Before the crisis Can you give us an overview of the archaeological research conducted by the UK ... more Before the crisis Can you give us an overview of the archaeological research conducted by the UK in Libya since the 2000s? Most British archaeological work has been co-ordinated (and often funded) through the London-based Society for Libyan Studies, which has equivalent status to the British Schools and Institutes overseas, but without having overseas premises. In the early 2000s, the major projects were the Fazzan Project (1997-2002, PI David Mattingly, comprising diachronic work, but with a...
Archaeological Reports, 2018
This article, based on an oral presentation by the author at its Annual General Meeting in Februa... more This article, based on an oral presentation by the author at its Annual General Meeting in February 2018, summarizes the activities of the British School at Athens with a focus on the calendar year 2017. It describes – selectively and concisely – research by award holders, BSA-sponsored fieldwork in 2017 at six locations (Olynthos, Koutroulou Magoula, Prosilio, Kythera, Dhaskalio-Keros and Knossos), research and events associated with the Fitch Laboratory and the Knossos Research Centre, plus other activities of the BSA in Greece and the UK, including seminars, conferences and workshops.
Minos Revista De Filologia Egea, 1998
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2014
Inaugurated in January 1954, the ‘Minoan Linear B Seminar’ explored the information emerging from... more Inaugurated in January 1954, the ‘Minoan Linear B Seminar’ explored the information emerging from Ventris' decipherment of Linear B in 1952. The new academic discipline of ‘Mycenaean Studies’ rapidly moved on from questions influenced by the field's ‘pre-history’ dating back a further 60 years to Evans' first publication on Aegean scripts. Intense philological and epigraphical research in the 1950s and 1960s laid the foundations for comparative study of the Mycenaean palatial societies, while a greater appreciation of archaeological data and contexts moved interpretation on in the 1980s and 1990s. Building on this tradition, Mycenaean studies currently needs more documents to sustain a ‘critical mass’ of researchers and, ideally, a new Ventris to unlock the Aegean scripts that remain undeciphered.
American Journal of Archaeology, 1999
Archaeological Reports, 2021
This article, based on an oral presentation in virtual format by the author at its Annual General... more This article, based on an oral presentation in virtual format by the author at its Annual General Meeting on 9 February 2021, summarizes the activities of the British School at Athens (BSA) with a focus on the calendar year 2020. It describes, selectively and concisely, research by award holders, BSA-sponsored fieldwork and study in 2020, research and events associated with the Fitch Laboratory and the Knossos Research Centre, plus other activities of the BSA in Greece and the UK, including seminars, conferences and workshops.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011, 2016
Equinox Publishing, Aug 3, 2014
How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions o... more How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt in Sheffield in April 2008 and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from from "world-systems" through "ritual economies" to "textile rivalries" and address the challenge of documenting, explaining and understanding the progressively more interwoven worlds of prehistoric Eurasia.
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013
Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of …, 2004
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2010
Ed. Universidad de Salamanca
One problem with written materials in the Aegean Bronze Age is that they are asked to fulfil a du... more One problem with written materials in the Aegean Bronze Age is that they are asked to fulfil a dual interpretative function: on the one hand, we use the content of documents we can read (mostly Linear B, less so Linear A and barely at all Cretan Hieroglyphic) to construct text-based narratives, while, on the other, we use the archaeological contexts in which documents are found to situate interpretations in particular spaces (e.g., ‘Archives’) or sites (e.g., ‘administrative centres’). In this talk I attempt to read behind the Linear B documents to assess how representative is the textual record as it has survived today. This requires an examination of both archaeological and textual ‘taphonomies’ – how and why certain documents survive archaeologically and why certain texts were (and were not) produced within the systems we can observe today. Situating the Linear B texts within a world of literate and non-literate practice helps shape some speculative thoughts about the use of writing in the 2nd millennium BC from its beginning to close to its end.
After over a century of fieldwork at Knossos, our knowledge of the layout and organization of the... more After over a century of fieldwork at Knossos, our knowledge of the layout and organization of the Bronze Age city still relies heavily on the excavation of isolated plots, the result of systematic and rescue excavations, leaving the cityscape of the largest settlement in the Aegean largely unknown.
This paper presents the results of a geophysical survey (magnetometry and resistivity) conducted on Lower Gypsades. The area, located south of the palace, beyond the Vlychia stream and along the northern half of the Gypsades hill, was chosen as the only part of the Bronze Age city, which is not buried under extensive Greek and Roman occupation levels. The aim of the project is to provide an overview of the nature and density of the urban outer settlement in order to offer new information about the extent, nature, and organization of a major part of Knossos’s southern suburbs. In addition, the results of the geophysical survey are analyzed in the context of previous archaeological discoveries in the Knossos area, and are also compared to the picture of the urban layout of other major centres in Bronze Age Crete.
J. Vroom (ed.), Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011, 2015
The village of Kyriakadika, attested in 18th-century censuses of the island of Kythera, no longer... more The village of Kyriakadika, attested in 18th-century censuses of the island of Kythera, no longer exists either as a habitation site or on contemporary maps of the island. The only actively used part of the site today is the Byzantine-style church of Ayios Dimitrios, whose construction dates back at least to the mid-13th century.
This paper draws together archaeological investigation of the site and its wider surroundings by the Kythera Island Project (KIP) and documentary evidence from the Local Historical Archive (TAK) and the UK’s National Archives to construct a micro-scale history of this small, rural settlement. Using these data, we suggest a date for the origin of the settlement and chart its growth and decline before its eventual abandonment. The detailed history possible for this site allows us to suggest why the site grew and declined as it, like many others in the Aegean, experienced the shifts in the ever-widening world of which it formed a part.
This analysis will, we hope, act as a case-study for the potential of integrating high-quality archival and archaeological data in the study of the Medieval and post-Medieval Aegean.
Βενετικοί χάρτες της Πελοποννήσου τέλη 17ου - αρχές 18ου αιώνα από τις συλλογές του πολεμικού αρχείου της Βιέννης (Venetian maps of the Peloponnese of the late 17th - early 18th c. from the collections of the War Archive of Vienna), edited by Olga Katsiardi-Hering, 2018
The territories of Methoni (Modon) and Pylos (Navarino) were jointly administered by the Ottoman ... more The territories of Methoni (Modon) and Pylos (Navarino) were jointly administered by the Ottoman authorities from AD 1500 to 1686, when Venetian forces recaptured them. The Venetian authorities immediately undertook a programme of mapping, to which it is likely that this map, drawn by Francisco de Fabretti, dating between 1690 and 1700, belongs.
Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas, edited by A.M. Jasink, J. Weingarten and S. Ferrara, 2017
This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script and t... more This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate societies of the ancient Aegean. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become much better known. Our goal now is to reach below the élite and scribal levels to interface with non-scribal operations conducted by people of the 'middling' sort. Who made these marks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in Bronze Age Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in the Aegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks.
Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity, eds Alex R. Knodell and Thomas P. Leppard, 2017
This volume considers regional approaches to social complexity from a variety of perspectives and... more This volume considers regional approaches to social complexity from a variety of perspectives and at a global scale. John F. Cherry has been a key figure in regional-scale inquiry and broader disciplinary interfaces throughout his career, producing, mentoring, and inspiring a remarkably diverse body of work, which nevertheless remains oriented around this central theme. While Cherry’s work is the inspiration for this volume and the papers within it, this should not be seen as a traditional festschrift, or piecemeal homage to the honorand’s career. Rather, it aims to explore this core concern of regional approaches to society and complexity in comparative perspective, first in the Aegean, then branching out to the wider Mediterranean, New World, and finally reflecting on relevant issues of concern to all archaeologists working at levels above the site.
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers, edited by Y. Galanakis, A. Christophilopoulou and J. Grime, 2017
Encyclopedia of Empire
Study of the Minoan civilization of Crete effectively began in 1900 with Arthur Evans’ excavation... more Study of the Minoan civilization of Crete effectively began in 1900 with Arthur Evans’ excavations at the site of Knossos. The “Minoan” civilization crystallized at the turn of the 3rd/2nd millennia bce and seems to have exercised a profound influence on the Aegean islands, the Dodecanese, and coastal southwestern Turkey. This increased from the Middle (c.1900–1700 bce) to the Late Bronze Age (c.1700–1450 bce), when Crete may have been dominated by Knossos. The presence of Minoan material culture and practices at sites in the Aegean might support the Ancient Greek tradition of a “thalassocracy” of Minos, or a Minoan “empire,” but recent interpretations see this phenomenon as a product of local power strategies. After a major destruction horizon on Crete c.1450 bce, Aegean engagement seems to have shifted to the emergent mainland (“Mycenaean”) polities, whose material culture becomes prevalent in the period 1400–1200 bce.Keywords:Archaeology;Mediterranean;Old World prehistory;tradeArchaeology;Mediterranean;Old World prehistory;trade
Y. Duhoux and A. Morpurgo Davies (eds), A Companion to Linear B Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, Vol. 3, 2014
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman …, Nov 1, 2007
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](Sandy Pylos: An Archaeological History from Nestor to …, Jan 1, 1998
We are very pleased to announce a workshop in honour of Chris Mee to be held at the British Schoo... more We are very pleased to announce a workshop in honour of Chris Mee to be held at the British School at Athens 18-19 September 2017. All are warmly invited to attend. Fuller details will be available soon via the BSA website.
by Jan Driessen, John Bennet, Fritz Blakolmer, Birgitta Eder, Daniel J. Pullen, Vassilis Petrakis, Yiannis Papadatos, Tina Kalantzopoulou, Luca Girella, Leonidas Vokotopoulos, Maria Anastasiadou, Anna Philippa-Touchais, Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, and Eleni Salavoura
Format: Public lecture on the 30 th , by Prof. Jim Wright, with lectures on the 31 st of May and ... more Format: Public lecture on the 30 th , by Prof. Jim Wright, with lectures on the 31 st of May and 1 st of June. Workshop. A restricted group of scholars as speakers. The meeting is not open to the general public (because of the size of the lecture hall), but a select number of people may apply to sit as backbenchers.