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Analytical exploration of the Mycenaean glass world via micro-PIXE: a contribution to our knowledge of LBA glass technology
During the Late Bronze Age, the Peloponnese with its palatial centers becomes the heartland of the Mycenaean world, resulting in an idiosyncratic...
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Mycenaean ‘gold-embroidery’ and questions of craftsmanship: a combined archaeological, archaeometric and experimental approach
This paper offers a combined archaeological, archaeometric and experimental approach to a demanding gold-working technique attested in Early...
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Mycenaean through Hellenistic glass in Greece: where have we got to?
Glass was undoubtedly an important element of the Mycenaean material culture. Consequential achievements of this technology are pronounced in the...
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A palace under the olive trees. Investigating the spatial organization of the Mycenaean palatial center at Ayios Vasileios (Laconia, Greece) through large-scale magnetic gradiometry
The results of a large-scale magnetometry survey are used to investigate two key aspects of the spatial organization of the Mycenaean palatial...
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Italo-Mycenaean and other Aegean-influenced pottery in Late Bronze Age Italy: the case for regional production
Decorated Italo-Mycenaean (IM) pottery, a high-status class found and made over three centuries from the Italian Late Middle Bronze Age onwards, was...
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Asteris and the search of Homeric Ithaca
Archaeological excavations at Troy, Mycenae, Pylos, and many other sites have brought to light remains of the Mycenaean period (13th to 11th c. BC)...
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Bone diagenesis in a Mycenaean secondary burial (Kastrouli, Greece)
This paper presents the characteristics of bone diagenesis in a secondary commingled Mycenaean burial in Kastrouli (Phocis, Greece) through the...
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Archaeological cross dating: a formalized scheme
Cross dating is the standard method by which archaeologists date archaeological contexts of unknown age based on parallel contexts of known age....
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Exploring connectivity in Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Greece and the Balkans using cranial non-metric analysis
The present study aims to explore connectivity and networking in Late Bronze Age (LBA)/Early Iron Age (EIA) Greece and the Balkans using...
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Neutron activation analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology: current applications and future perspectives
This paper, jointly written by participants of a workshop held in 2021, argues for an increased recognition and application of neutron activation...
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Interaction and the end of the Late Bronze Age as displayed through neutron activation analysis of Late Helladic sherds: a case study on Asine in the Argolid, Greece
This article discusses the results of neutron activation analysis made on a limited number of LH IIIB and LH IIIC period sherds from the Argive...
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Mycenaean pottery from Amara West (Nubia, Sudan)
Amara West, built around 1300 BC, was an administrative centre for the pharaonic colony of Upper Nubia. In addition to producing hand- and wheel-made...
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More than meets the eye: new archaeobotanical evidence on Bronze Age viticulture and wine making in the Peloponnese, Greece
Viticulture and wine making have been at the heart of discussions concerning the Mycenaean society with elite groups which emerged in the...
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Ancient crop movements from South Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean
This paper outlines the movements of crops from South Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean between the third and first millennia bce . It...
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History of floods in Greece: causes and measures for protection
Floods as diachronic and international phenomena affect numerous people, buildings and infrastructure. Throughout human history, floods are the most...
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Beyond staple crops: exploring the use of ‘invisible’ plant ingredients in Minoan cuisine through starch grain analysis on ceramic vessels
Systematic archaeobotanical research in the Bronze Age Aegean has greatly expanded our knowledge regarding staple crops and aspects such as...
