Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 7 2022

Edited by John Bintliff

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In this rich volume, articles range across all the main phases of Greek Archaeology from Prehistory to the Postmedieval era, and cover a wonderful range of topics.

In this rich volume our articles range across all the main phases of Greek Archaeology from Prehistory to the Postmedieval era, and cover a wonderful range of topics.

Studies of individual sites begin with an overview by Michael Boyd of Colin Renfrew’s research project on the Cycladic island of Keros at the truly remarkable prehistoric sanctuary centre of Dhaskaleio, but we also have an update by Corien Wiersma on the exciting new survey and excavations at the Mycenaean palace of Agios Vassilios near Sparta. Welcome news appears from Northern Greece, till not so long ago rather neglected by scholarship, with Bronze to Iron Age house and household cooking research papers from the Toumba mound and sites around Mount Olympus, by Kalliopi Efkleidou and Anastasia Dimoula.

Landscape studies begin at the grandest scale with Bernard Knapp’s article on the interconnections of Bronze Age Cyprus and Kostas Sbonias’ article on the coastal economy of Corfu, then scale down geographically to Nadia Coutsinas’ analysis of long-term settlement dynamics in Eastern Crete and Natasha Dakouri-Hild’s high-tech survey project at Aphidna in Attica. Michalis Karambinis follows up his earlier study of the Roman cities of the province of Achaia (JGA 3, 2018), with a survey of the cities of Roman Crete. In a related topic, Anastasia Yangaki offers us an authoritative study of the archaeology of beekeeping on Late Antique Crete.

We try hard never to neglect Greek art and architecture in our Journal, and are delighted to have a redating of the architectural history of the famous Archaic to Classical Athena Aphaia temple on Aegina by Hansgeorg Bankel, partnered by a study of the significance of its terracotta votive figurines by Maria Spathi. Andrew Stewart exhibits his immense learning in the field of Greek and Roman sculpture with an in-depth investigation of the statues of the Homeric hero Protesilaos.

Always enthusiastic to keep up our coverage of the Medieval and Post-Medieval archaeology of Greece, we welcome two articles on Byzantine and Frankish ceramics from Nauplia and Crete, by Anastasia Vassiliou and Matteo Randazzo.

Finally Michael Fotiadis dissects debates concerning the origins and nature of ‘Aegean prehistoric civilisation’ during the 19th century’s discovery and subsequent evaluation of Bronze Age Greece, a theme which has continued to be central to later and current approaches to ethnic and cultural continuity on the Greek homeland.

- From the foreword by John Bintliff, General Editor

Contents

Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 7: Editorial ;

Prehistory and Protohistory ;
The sanctuary at Keros in the Aegean Early Bronze Age: from centre of congregation to centre of power – Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Boyd, Demetris Athanasoulis, Neil Brodie, Tristan Carter, Katerina Dellaporta, Marie Floquet, Giorgos Gavalas, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Myrsini Gkouma, Jill Hilditch, Irini Legaki, Evi Margaritis, Marisa Marthari, Ioanna Moutafi, Olga Philaniotou, Peggy Sotirakopoulou and Joshua Wright ;
Fusion cuisine in the shadow of Mount Olympus: an integrated study of Middle and Late Bronze Age cooking pots – Anastasia Dimoula, Sophia Koulidou, Zoi Tsirtsoni, Edward Standall, Oliver E. Craig and Soultana Maria Valamoti ;
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘exotic currency’ and objects of connectivity – A. Bernard Knapp ;
Unlocking building biographies during the Late Bronze Age in Central Macedonia: the case of the Thessaloniki Toumba mound settlement – Kalliopi Efkleidou Maria Karantoni, Sevasti Triantaphyllou and Stelios Andreou ;
The site of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia from the prehistoric to the early modern period. Results of the pedestrian field survey – Corien Wiersma, Philip Bes, Mink W. van IJzendoorn, Adam Wiznura and Sofia Voutsaki ;

Archaic to Classical ;
New observations on the pediments of the early Classical temple of Aphaia on Aegina and on other works by the ‘Aphaia architect’ – Hansgeorg Bankel ;
What do terracotta figurines in a sacral context reveal? The case of the Aphaia sanctuary on the island of Aegina – Maria G. Spathi ;

Roman and Late Roman ;
The cities of Crete under Roman rule (1st–3rd centuries AD) – Michalis Karambinis ;
Protesilaos, two ways – Andrew Stewart ;
A beekeeper’s kit of the First Byzantine period in Eleutherna (Crete) – Anastasia G. Yangaki ;

Medieval and Post-Medieval ;
A note on Medieval Mediterranean trade networks: first observations on the possible evidence of Sicilian amphorae of the 8th-9th century in Crete and the Aegean – Matteo G Randazzo ;
Middle Byzantine glazed pottery from Nauplio: an overview – Anastasia Vassiliou ;

Multiperiod ;
The settlement patterns of the Ierapetra Isthmus (East Crete) from the Archaic to the Venetian periods, as revealed through the SettleInEastCrete Program – Nadia Coutsinas, Marianna Katifori, Konstantinos Roussos and Athanasios Argyriou ;
The Kotroni Archaeological Research Project (KASP): evaluating ancient Aphidna using multimodal landscape analysis – Athos Agapiou, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Stephen Davis, EleniAndrikou and William Rourk ;
Coastal environments and long-term human practices in Corfu: a seascape perspective – Kostas Sbonias ;
Historicising the emergence of the Aegean culture (1890s) – Michael Fotiadis ;

Book reviews

Publishing Scholarly Archaeology since 1997

Publishing Scholarly Archaeology since 1997

Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 7 2022

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