Corinth, the Centenary, 1896-1996


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Twenty-five papers presented at the December 1996 symposium held in Athens to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies excavations at ancient Corinth. The papers are intended to illustrate the range in subject matter of research currently being undertaken by scholars of ancient Corinth, and their inclusion in one volume will serve as a useful reference work for nonspecialists. Each of the topics (which vary widely from Corinthian geology to religious practices to Byzantine pottery) is presented by the acknowledged expert in that area. The book includes a full general bibliography of articles and volumes concerning material excavated at Corinth. As a summary of one hundred years' research it will be useful to generations of scholars to come.




The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily


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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




La céramique grecque ou de tradition grecque au VIIIe siècle en Italie centrale et méridionale


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Mes premiers mots seront de bienvenue et de gratitude. Ils s’adressent également à tous : à qui vient de loin, et pour la première fois, au Centre Jean Bérard, mais aussi à tous ceux qui sont désormais les habitués de ces réunions.Le Centre Jean Bérard, vous le savez, a un peu plus de dix ans d’existence. Naples a toujours été et reste à mes yeux un lieu privilégié de rencontre pour tous ceux qui travaillent sur la colonisation grecque, et plus spécialement en Occident, parce que, grâce à un concours heureux d.e circonstances, à la présence et à l’amitié d’un certain nombre de personnes (et je dois citer ici au moins le nom d’E. Lepore sans qui rien de ce qui a été fait n’aurait été possible), ces rencontres ont à chaque fois fourni l’occasion d’une véritable confrontation de faits, d’idées, avec ces discussions, parfois vives mais toujours amicales, qui sont la condition même du progrès de nos connaissances. Bref ces colloques n’ont jamais été une juxtaposition de monologues : ils ont voulu créer les conditions favorables d’un véritable dialogue.Je souligne ce mot, parce que le thème qui va nous occuper pendant ces deux jours avait fait l’objet d’un premier dialogue « l’incontro di studi sugli inizi della colonizzazione greca in Occidente », qui avait eu lieu en février-mars 1968 à Naples et à Ischia. « Nello sforzo di ottenere un vero e proprio dialogo, evitando i rischi dell’accademia, si è cercato di individuare alcuni pochi argomenti, enunciandoli in maniera che è parsa stimolante, e rigorosamente circoscritta », avait dit, en ouvrant nos débats, Bruno d’Agostino.




Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World


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Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliest Greek pottery exchanged in Greek, Phoenician, and other Indigenous Mediterranean cultural contexts from multidisciplinary perspectives. It offers an examination of 362 Protogeometric and Geometric ceramic and clay samples, analysed by Neutron Activation, that Stefanos Gimatzidis obtained in twenty-four sites and regions in eight countries. Bringing a macro-historical approach to the topic through a systematic survey of early Greek pottery production, exchange, and consumption, the volume also provides a micro-history of selected ceramic assemblages analysed by a team of scholars who specialise in Classical, Near Eastern, and various prehistoric archaeologies. The results of their collaborative archaeological and archaeometric studies challenge previous reconstructions of intercultural relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean and call into question established narratives about Greek and Phoenician migration.




The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium


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The archaeology of early Rome has progressed rapidly and dramatically over the last century; most recently with the discovery of the shrine of Aeneas at Lavinium and the reports of the walls of the Romulan city discovered on the city slopes of the Palatine Hill. The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium presents the most recent discoveries in Rome and its surroundings: princely tombs,inscriptions and patrician houses are included in a complete overview of the subject and the controversies surrounding it. This comprehensively illustrated study fills the need for an accessible English guide to these new discoveries, and in preparation, the author interviewed most of the leading figures in current research on the early periods of Rome.




The Complex Past of Pottery


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Proceedings of the ARCHON International Conference, held in Amsterdam,1996.




The Archaeology of Colonialism


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The Archaeology of Colonialism demonstrates how artifacts are not only the residue of social interaction but also instrumental in shaping identities and communities. Claire Lyons and John Papadopoulos summarize the complex issues addressed by this collection of essays. Four case studies illustrate the use of archaeological artifacts to reconstruct social structures. They include ceramic objects from Mesopotamian colonists in fourth-millennium Anatolia; the Greek influence on early Iberian sculpture and language; the influence of architecture on the West African coast; and settlements across Punic Sardinia that indicate the blending of cultures. The remaining essays look at the roles myth, ritual, and religion played in forming colonial identities. In particular, they discuss the cultural middle ground established among Greeks and Etruscans; clothing as an instrument of European colonialism in nineteenth-century Oceania; sixteenth-century Andean urban planning and kinship relations; and the Dutch East India Company settlement at the Cape of Good Hope.




The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices


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Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways of approaching the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.




Interpreting the Seventh Century BC


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This book has its origin in a conference held at the British School at Athens in 2011 which aimed to explore the range of new archaeological information now available for the seventh century in Greek lands.




Mediterranean Connections


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Mediterranean Connections focuses on the origin and development of maritime transport containers from the Early Bronze through early Iron Age periods (ca. 3200–700 BC). Analysis of this category of objects broadens our understanding of ancient Mediterranean interregional connections, including the role that shipwrecks, seafaring, and coastal communities played in interaction and exchange. These containers have often been the subject of specific and detailed pottery studies, but have seldom been examined in the context of connectivity and trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. This broad study: considers the likely origins of these types of vessels; traces their development and spread throughout the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean as archetypal organic bulk cargo containers; discusses the wider impact on Mediterranean connections, transport and trade over a period of 2,500 years covering the Bronze and early Iron Ages. Classical and Near Eastern archaeologists and historians, as well as maritime archaeologists, will find this extensively researched volume an important addition to their library.