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Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete The Middle Minoan III period on Crete was initially identified and studied in detail at Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans. Subsequent scholarly attention focused on the preceding Old Palace period and the apparent floruit of the New Palaces at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age. In consequence one of the critical transitions in Minoan culture has been virtually overlooked, giving rise to confused and ill-informed judgements concerning developments in Crete and further afield. With numerous innovations in art, architecture and material culture — notably an entirely new palace at Galatas — the changes in Middle Minoan III are striking, and appear to herald a new political organisation of the island, centred on Knossos. The papers in this volume, presented at the first colloquium to be held in the Villa Ariadne at Knossos, now restore the period to its rightful position. The specialist contributions cover most key sites where Middle Minoan III occupation has been identified. The aim has been to rehabilitate Middle Minoan III as a dynamic period in Crete and also on Thera, in order to provide a better understanding of socio-political change across the island and beyond in the latter part of the Middle Bronze Age. ISBN: 978-0-904887-67-9 Price: £79 + post/packing
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Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus How do the cultures of Crete and Cyprus, the two great islands of the eastern Mediterranean, compare in their history and development from the 3rd millennium to the 1st millennium BC? What was similar and what was different in their social and political, economic and technological, and religious and mortuary practices and behaviours, and in the natural settings and choices of places for settlements? Why, and how, did convergences and divergences come about? Why for instance did monumental buildings appear in Cyprus several centuries after they had emerged in Crete? And what was the impact on Cypriot society of the island's rich copper resources, while Crete as a rule had to import the metal? How and why did Cyprus manage an apparently much more peaceful transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age than Crete? These are among the important questions that a leading group of experts on the two islands addressed at Parallel Lives, a pioneering conference in Nicosia organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Crete and the University of Cyprus, to compare and discuss the islands' cultural trajectories diachronically from c. 3000 BC through their Bronze Ages and down to their loss of independence in 300 BC for Cyprus and 67 BC for Crete. Papers given then are now presented in fully revised form as chapters in this book, which is the first to bring together the study of Crete and Cyprus in this way, while starting with their insular geo-cultural identites. It will be a valuable resource for students of both islands, for all who are interested in ancient material cultures and mentalities in the Mediterranean, as well as those engaged in island studies across the world. ISBN: 9780904887662 Price: £98 + post/packing
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The site of Karphi, high above the Lasithi plateau, remains one of the most extensively investigated settlements of Early Iron Age Greece; it was excavated by the British School at Athens under the direction of John Pendlebury in 1937-39. In the report that swiftly followed the pottery was not presented in detail, though much was discussed in a later article by Mercy Seiradaki. Consequently there existed serious problems in dating the remains and understanding their meaning. This volume now presents a thorough study of the Karphi pottery, much hitherto unpublished, accompanied by copious new drawings and photographs. The author's expertise with material from contemporary Cretan sites, especially from the Kavousi excavations, provides major insights. Moreover, thanks to careful recording by the excavators and the survival of the excavation notebooks, the material can be presented here by context, which permits the date of the settlement to be clarified and its history to be re-evaluated. While early pottery appears as small fragments from under floors, streets, and courts, later LM IIIC whole vessels seem to have been abandoned on floors. The tombs continued in use long after the abandonment of the settlement. Ceramic assemblages also help to determine room and building functions, leading to a reconstruction of social practices at this key site. A chapter by Eleni Nodarou and Ioannis Iliopoulos presents the results of petrographic and SEM analyses. Thus, this study serves as a significant contribution to our overall understanding of Early Iron Age Crete. 392p, 2 col plates, 29 half-tone plates, 158 in-text figs, 4 tables (British School at Athens, 2011) ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0-904887-63-1 ISBN-10: 0-904887-63-4 Price: £95 + post/packing
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In recognition of the outstanding contribution made by Peter Warren to Aegean archaeology — and in particular to Cretan studies — this volume offers a collection of 36 papers reflecting his wide-ranging research interests. Among the topics addressed are material culture and iconography, including frescoes, pottery, seals and stone vases; chronology, inter-site relationships, overseas connections and religion; Knossos and the legacy of Sir Arthur Evans; and the natural world, Minoan and modern. While some papers present unpublished material for the first time, others reflect on broader themes, offering important new insights into perennial problems of Minoan archaeology. Thus, as a whole, the volume serves as an important overview of current research into Bronze Age Crete and its wider relations, both spatially and temporally. Binding: Hardback laminate. Size: A4. Pages: xl + 400 Illustrations: figs. 221, including 20 in colour; tables 4 ISBN: 978-0-904887-62-4 Price: £79 + post/packing
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Greek History and Culture through the British School at Athens
Proceedings of a Conference held at The National Hellenic Research Foundation,
Athens, 6–7 October 2006 The British School at Athens is renowned for its discoveries in Bronze Age and Classical archaeology. This book reveals for the first time that in parallel with this story of archaeology and the classics, another theme runs persistently through the history of the School from its foundation in 1886. This is the contribution of British scholars to the study of Byzantine and modern Greek culture, art and architecture, anthropology, geography, folklore, history and language. Richly illustrated with material from the School’s photographic archive, the book sets out the achievements of scholars such as R. M. Dawkins, F. W. Hasluck and A. J. B. Wace. Others whose achievements are assessed include the great Scottish historian George Finlay and the topographer Colonel Leake. The book explores also the rich holdings in Byzantine church art held in the School’s Byzantine Research Fund Archive. Contributors include Metropolitan Kallistos (on Mount Athos), distinguished professors from British universities, and scholars from the National Hellenic Research Foundation. The School’s mission was and is to further the study of Greece in all its aspects. This book shows how scholars took advantage of this flexibility. Contributions explore the connection between the School’s different disciplines, in particular between archaeology and anthropology. The nature of the School community itself is examined, as is the School’s involvement in the First World War. The impact on scholars raised in the classical tradition of Greece’s landscape and living culture is a pervasive theme. xxv + 254, figs. 90, maps, 6, tables 1, colour plates 16 ISBN: 9780904887600 Price: £55 + post/packing
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Proceedings of the Conference held in Sparta, organised by the British School at Athens,
the University of Nottingham, the E′ Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
and the 5th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities 17–20 March 2005 This conference celebrated 100 years since the beginning of work in Laconia by the British School at Athens. It aimed to carry forward from that original work a broad spirit of enquiry — the research of those early scholars ranged over every aspect of the archaeology, epigraphy, history, architecture and art history of the region. What has changed over the century since is the even greater internationalisation of the scholarly enterprise, and the great contribution made today by the members of the Greek Archaeological Service. Their energetic contribution to the archaeology of the region is underlined by the number of papers in this volume written them. The papers published here have been arranged chronologically, and they cover an immense span from the Palaeolithic to recent times. But there are other disciplinary and thematic connections, which form junctures across the chronological order: material culture, religion and belief, cultural identity, epigraphy, topography, architectural studies, iconography, historiography, anthropology, the economy and the history of Laconia. The very variety of these themes is a tribute to the broad tradition of enquiry which those pioneering scholars of the early 20th century — British, Greek and other nationalities — brought to the study of Sparta and Laconia. As Paul Cartledge stresses in his introduction to the volume, the different images of Sparta have deeply influenced the European tradition. Sparta lives in the mind’s eye and is constantly redrawn in the light of new discoveries and new insights. The papers presented here provide both. ISBN: 9780904887617 Price: £97 + post/packing
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Proceedings of a Conference held at Cardiff University 17–21 April 2001
House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond This volume explores a range of approaches to the built environment of the ancient Mediterranean world, with two main aims: first, to relate archaeological evidence to the wider cultural and historical context, and second, to bridge the conventional divide between prehistoric and Classical archaeology. It contains 40 papers by an international array of scholars, ranging from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity, and geographically from the Aegean to Italy, North Africa, Egypt and the Black Sea. Major themes include: • the theory and methodology of analysing and interpreting built space • the relationship of the built environment to social and political structures and the formation of states • the development of civic and religious space • the identification of households in the archaeological record • the formation and interpretation of domestic assemblages • problems in the identification of functional areas within the house • changing conceptions of public and private • space and gender • the function and significance of decoration in houses and palaces • the uses of ethnoarchaeology and virtual reality for understanding architectural remains • the effects of acculturation in the domestic sphere • the archaeology of the domestic economy • the problems of combining literary and archaeological evidence. The papers offer many new interpretations of a wide range of material and, taken together, give an exciting overview of the latest scholarship and ideas in this rich and developing field of study. The conference formed part of the British Academy / AHRB-funded project ‘Strategies, Structures and Ideologies of the Built Environment’. ISBN: 9780904887563 Price: £89 + post/packing
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OUT OF PRINT This volume presents the most up-to-date synthesis of the Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery sequence of Knossos, one of the most significant archaeological sites in Mediterranean and European prehistory. The Knossos pottery sequence has formed the backbone of Aegean prehistoric chronology for over a century, and this is the first publication since Sir Arthur Evans’s Palace of Minos that provides — within one cover — a complete overview of the main ceramic developments, which have occurred at this key site during more than five millennia (ca. 6500–1100 BC). The volume is written by a small international team of archaeologists with extensive and first-hand knowledge of Knossian ceramics, whose work, over the years, has thoroughly questioned and modified previous dating of important ceramic assemblages and traditional definitions of ceramic phases. Their chapters present not only new updates of their previous works, but also a thorough re-examination of the stratigraphic and stylistic evidence currently available, and include previously unpublished material. The volume is provided with over one hundred black-and-white illustrations, and is accompanied by a CD with colour images of selected Knossian ceramics. It will be an indispensable work of reference for archaeologists working in the prehistoric Aegean as well as other Mediterranean and European regions. Volume contents: Introduction (Nicoletta Momigliano); Chapter 1: Neolithic (Peter Tomkins); Chapter 2: Early Prepalatial (David E. Wilson); Chapter 3: Late Prepalatial (Nicoletta Momigliano); Chapter 4: Protopalatial (J. Alexander MacGillivray); Chapter 5: Neopalatial (Eleni Hatzaki); Chapter 6: Final Palatial and Postpalatial (Eleni Hatzaki). ISBN: 9780904887556 Price: £ + post/packing
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Until his premature death in 1984 at the age of 45, Mark Cameron made a unique contribution to the study of Minoan wall painting; his published articles continue to inspire a new generation of scholars. In recent years many important discoveries have been made, which have enhanced our understanding of Aegean wall painting and have expanded our perception of the Aegean and its relations with the neighboring cultures during the second millennium BC. This volume, dedicated to the memory of Mark Cameron, now brings together leading scholars in a presentation of some of the latest ideas in the field of Aegean painting. Contributors include: M. Bietak, A. Chapin, S. Hood, S. Immerwahr, R. Jones, N. Marinatos, L. Morgan, M. Shaw, C. Palyvou, E. Photos-Jones, I. Tzachili and P. Warren. ISBN: 0904887499 Price: £79 + post/packing
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Proceedings of the Conference in Herakleion organised by the British School at Athens and the
23rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities of Herakleion, in November 2000, for the Centenary of Sir Arthur Evans’s Excavations at Knossos The volume brings together 54 papers dealing with all aspects of the site of Knossos by leading scholars in the field of outstanding significance: readers will find a remarkable amount of new information and new interpretations on all aspects of Minoan and Cretan studies. They range in date from the Neolithic to the Late Roman and, indeed the modern reception of the site. The papers are grouped under major themes. Approx. 600 pp., 299 illustrations (drawings & photographs) and 22 tables. ISBN: 0904887 45 6 Price: £96 + post/packing
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Proceedings of a Conference held by the Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, 1-2 December, 2000 The volume contains fifteen papers. Ten of them record the genesis and the development of archaeological survey in Cyprus; they also discuss the reasons why the twentieth century ended with serious set-backs in the protection of cultural landscapes, despite the fact that in Cyprus survey was conducted in the name of archaeological resource management as early as 1955. The credit for this accomplishment goes to Hector Catling, who had envisioned the island-wide Cyprus Survey Project, and was instrumental in establishing the Survey Branch in the Cyprus Department of Antiquities. The ‘biographies’ of eight very different projects offer a representative sample of survey archaeology in Cyprus in the last quarter of the 20th century. The inclusion of four geographically and methodologically diverse projects from Israel, Libya, Italy and Greece provide a trans-Mediterranean perspective against which survey archaeology in Cyprus can be measured. The keynote paper (John Cherry) brings the Mediterranean and the local projects closer together and gives substance to a multifaceted dialogue, which extends from visibility and the degree of isomorphism between surface and sub-surface remains, to the links between regional survey projects and cultural heritage management. ISBN: 0 904887 464 Price: £49 + post/packing
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"This book is the first major review of the Mesolithic age of Greece" writes Colin Renfrew "If the (Franchthi Cave publications) represent a first milestone in mesolithic studies in the Aegean, this volume certainly constitutes a second. It establishes a perspective going beyond that of the single key site, allowing earlier finds such as those from Sidari on Corfu to be re-assessed, and including more recent discoveries at the Theopetra Cave, at the Cave of Cyclope on Youra, and from the Klisoura Gorge. The book moreover develops a number of methodological advances, along with a careful review of the chronology. It embarks also upon detailed investigations of the fauna and microfauna." Pp. 224 pp inc. 68 figs. ISBN: 0 904887 43X Price: £39 + post/packing
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Animals have always been integral to life and culture in Greece. Recently the study of animal bones has played an important role in investigations of Greek archaeology. In this volume the current position is reviewed with papers ranging from the Palaeolithic to the Medieval periods and employing a wide range of techniques and approaches. The papers cover not only the themes of subsistence and methodology but also symbolism, ritual and the artistic representation of animals. The interdisciplinary and international character of zooarchaeology is confirmed and many new avenues for research are suggested. Pp. 310 pp inc. 111 figs. ISBN: 0904887 413 Price: £59 + post/packing
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Mosaic, a collection of articles written in honour of A. H. S. (Peter) Megaw, closely reflects the scope of his work during a lifetime dedicated to Mediaeval and Byzantine art history and archaeology. Colleagues and students from Cyprus, Greece, Great Britain, the United States, Switzerland, France and South Africa pay tribute to his wide interests: his early studies of Middle Byzantine architecture (published in the Annual of the British School at Athens from 1931 onwards and still regularly cited); his immense contribution to the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, with numerous restorations and excavations; his pioneering research on mediaeval ceramics and sculpture, and the development of kite photography. The entire work is suffused with a shared love of Cyprus, where Peter and Elektra Megaw made their home. ISBN: 0 904887 405 Price: £35 + post/packing
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This Handbook deals comprehensively with the pottery of Knossos from the beginning of the Iron Age until Late Roman times. Finds from a century of excavation at Knossos are treated in sufficient depth so as to be useful not only to students seeking a general background, but also to research scholars engaged in Cretan field archaeology and museum work. For all those concerned with recovering the record of ancient Greek and Roman Crete, this volume is designed to help quick diagnosis of pottery finds. For the connoisseur of ceramic art, attention is also drawn to the lively and creative imagination of Knossian potters, persevering from the Minoan past and surfacing especially in Early Greek and Hellenistic times. ISBN: 0 904887 383 Price: £47 + post/packing
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A MINOAN CHRYSELEPHANTINE STATUETTE AND ITS AEGEAN BRONZE AGE CONTEXT There are many examples of Cretan Bronze Age figurines, figures, statues and statuettes, but only one striding youthful male carved in sumptuous ivory, adorned with gold and brought to life with rock crystal eyes and pulsating veins. There is only one Palaikastro Kouros. Recovered during three separate excavation campaigns in 1987, 1988 and 1990, the Palaikastro Kouros is one of the greatest achievements of early Aegean art. This monograph is the final publication of its discovery, recovery, conservation and interpretation by the international team of specialists who brought this unique masterpiece back to light. ISBN: 0904887 359 Price: £43 + post/packing
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This is the final publication of the pottery groups from the Old Palace at Knossos, which Sir Arthur Evans and Duncan Mackenzie used to construct the first relative chronology of the Aegean Middle Bronze Age. The groups, however, were never fully studied, and here sixteen pottery groups are assembled and described in detail. A new typology of the pottery is presented, based on variations in technology, form and design. This forms the basis for a new history of the Old Palace Period at Knossos and in central Crete. A new chronological framework is established in which to consider relations with the Aegean, Egypt and the Near East. J. A. MacGillivray re-investigated the pottery groups whilst serving as Curator at Knossos and then as Assistant Director of the British School at Athens, and completed the text whilst holding a visiting fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. ISBN: 0 904887 324 Price: £49 + post/packing
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Proceedings of the 19th British Museum Colloquium held with the British School at Athens, and King's and University Colleges, London, 6-8 December, 1995 These proceedings bring together important new work on the archaeology, art and history of Sparta and Laconia. The periods covered include Prehistoric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine, and the articles cover many topics including the sculpture, vase painting, architecture, mosaics, bronzes, burials, settlement and geomorphology of Laconia. Approx. 160 pp., 160 figs. and halftones ISBN: 0 904887 367 Price: £26.5 + post/packing
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The First International Conference on the Palaeolithic Archaeology of Greece and Adjacent Areas, was held in Ioannina in September 1994. Its aim was to bring together for the first time an international group of scholars and scientists to report on new and recent projects on the Palaeolithic archaeology of both Greece and neighbouring territories in the Balkan peninsula and Turkey. The present volume comprises the revised and updated version of the conference papers together with new information on some key sites. The thirty-four chapters offer new results and syntheses on the archaeology and environmental history of the region, and cover all the major stages of the Palaeolithic sequence, as well as presenting new developments in method and interpretation. ISBN: 0 904887 340 Price: £43 + post/packing
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Proceedings of the First Colloquium on Post-Minoan Crete held by the British School at Athens and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 10-11 November, 1995. This volume contains a collection of the papers which were presented at the First Colloquium on Post-Minoan Crete. This international colloquium brought together people currently working on and interested in Post-Minoan Crete; the second meeting is scheduled for September 1998. This volume covers a wide range of topics and periods, and contains useful reviews of recent projects and new approaches to the archaeology and history of Post-Minoan Crete. Approx. pp. xviii + 125, 69 figs and halftones ISBN: Price: £22 + post/packing
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Sir Arthur Evans published only about a tenth of the sealings which he found in the destruction levels of the last palace and houses at Knossos, and those he illustrated only in drawings. This volume seeks to make good this deficiency by giving photographs of all the sealings with a known find-place and a selection of the better preserved examples whose exact provenance cannot now be determined. These are supplemented by the drawings which Evans published, but which are inconveniently scattered throughout the four volumes of Palace of Minos, and to them have been added some further drawings published by other scholars subsequently. Since the original fundamental study of the sealings published in 1960 by Dr Gill, a considerable number of further sealings have been found and registered in Heraklion Museum. Some of these can be matched with Evans' original drawings. This new evidence is taken fully into account in the new publication. As well as sealings Evans also found seals, of which, again, he published only a tenth. Section 5 sets out the evidence establishing their finding and, when possible, where they were discovered. ISBN: 0-904887-24-3 Price: £24 + post/packing
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