Minoan News

Latest news & updates about Minoan art & archaeology 1 (Dec. 2014)

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New books

o The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean – A.B.
Knapp & P. van Dommelen (eds)
http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/ebook.jsf;jsessionid=93775F12EDA672519DA1
CEC5B7368474?bid=CHO9781139028387

o Πεπραγμένα του Ι' Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου (Χανιά, 1-8 Οκτωβρίου 2006)
http://www.aegeussociety.org/gr/index.php/new-books/10th-cretological-congress/

New papers available online

o Η υιοθέτηση στην Κρήτη της δεύτερης χιλιετίας π. Χ. θρησκευτικών ιδεών και

πεποιθήσεων προερχομένων από τον ευρύτερο χώρο της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου –
L. Platon
https://www.academia.edu/9950068/%CE%97_%CF%85%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%B8%CE%AD%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%
CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%8D%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%82_%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82_%CF%80._%CE%A7._%CE%B8%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%85%CF
%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%B8%CE%AE%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%89%CE%BD_%CF%80%CF%81%CE%B
F%CE%B5%CF%81%CF%87%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C_%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%B5%CF%85%CF%81%CF%8D%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF_%CF%87%CF%8E%CF%81%
CE%BF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE%CF%82_%CE%9C%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85._%CE%9B._%CE%A0%CE%BB%CE
%AC%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD.Ohlstadt_2007

o Electronic publication of the first two articles of the new journal Aegean Studies
http://www.aegeussociety.org/en/index.php/aegeus-news/aegean-studies-and-happy-new-year/

o Scaling Up: From Household to State in Bronze Age Crete – C. Knappett

https://www.academia.edu/310981/2_Scaling_Up_From_Household_to_State_In_Bronze_Age_Crete

o Minoan shipsheds – D. Blackman

http://www.kommosconservancy.org/documents-2/david-blackman-minoan-shipsheds/

o Quelques remarques sur les « sites défensifs » crétois de la fin de l’Âge du

Bronze – F. Gaignerot-Driessen
http://archeorient.hypotheses.org/3558

o |PhD Thesis| Ενδοκοινοτική οργάνωση και οικονομία των αστικών θέσεων της
Κρήτης κατά τη Νεοανακτορική περίοδο. Το παράδειγμα της εγκατάστασης της Κάτω
Ζάκρου – A. Salichou
https://www.academia.edu/9824732/%CE%95%CE%BD%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%89%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%BA%C
E%B1%CE%B9_%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8E%CE%BD_%CE%B8%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%89%CE%
BD_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC_%CF%84%CE%B7_%CE%9D%CE%B5%CE%BF%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9
%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BF%CE%B4%CE%BF._%CE%A4%CE%BF_%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B3%CE%BC%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%B5%CE%B3%
CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%89_%CE%96%CE%AC%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85

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 o Iconographie du pouvoir en Crète minoenne. Vers la mise au point d'une
méthodologie – G. Drappier & C. Langohr
https://www.academia.edu/349293/Iconographie_du_pouvoir_en_Cr%C3%A8te_minoenne._Vers_la_mise_
au_point_dune_m%C3%A9thodologie

o Rallying 'round a "Minoan" Past: The Legitimation of Power at Knossos during

the Late Bronze Age – J. Driessen & C. Langohr
https://www.academia.edu/340430/Rallying_around_a_Minoan_Past._The_Legitimation_of_Power_at_Knos
sos_during_the_Late_Bronze_Age

o Γιορτάζοντας με τους νεκρούς: στρατηγικές της μνήμης στις κοινωνίες της

Προανακτορικής Κρήτης – Y. Papadatos
https://www.academia.edu/9819757/Papadatos_2012_Celebrating_with_the_dead_strategies_of_memory_
in_the_communities_of_Prepalatial_Crete

o Planning a Feast in Neopalatial Crete: A Look at the Linear A Evidence –

B. Montecchi
https://www.academia.edu/3442747/Planning_a_Feast_in_Neopalatial_Crete_a_Look_at_the_Linear_A_Evid
ence

o The Sardinian Pottery from the Late Bronze Age Site of Kommos in Crete:
Description, Chemical and Petrographic Analyses, and Historical Context – L.V.
Watrous, P.M. Day & R.E. Jones
https://www.academia.edu/9814495/The_Sardinian_Pottery_from_the_Late_Bronze_Age_Site_of_Kommos_
in_Crete_Description_Chemical_and_Petrographic_Analyses_and_Historical_context

o Observations on some Late Minoan pottery from Sissi – C. Langohr

https://www.academia.edu/3066610/Observations_on_some_Late_Minoan_pottery_from_Sissi

o La céramique MM IIIB-MR IIIB de Sissi. Quelques dépôts et ensembles notoires

– C. Langohr
https://www.academia.edu/1840132/La_c%C3%A9ramique_MM_IIIB-
MR_IIIB_de_Sissi._Quelques_d%C3%A9p%C3%B4ts_et_ensembles_notoires

o A Minoan Middle Minoan cup from Sidon – J.A. MacGillivray

https://www.academia.edu/9778205/A_Middle_Minoan_cup_from_Sidon

o The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations

c. 2300–2000 BC – M.H. Wiener
http://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/18325/18056

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 o A manifesto for the study of ancient Mediterranean maritime networks –
J. Leidwanger et al.
http://www.academia.edu/9655799/A_manifesto_for_the_study_of_ancient_Mediterranean_maritime_netw
orks

o Goddesses, Snake Tubes, & Plaques: Analysis of Ceramic Ritual Objects from
LM IIIC Shrine at Kavousi – P.M. Day et al.
http://www.academia.edu/9728135/Goddesses_Snake_Tubes_and_Plaques_Analysis_of_Ceramic_Ritual_O
bjects_from_the_LM_IIIC_Shrine_at_Kavousi

o Proceedings of the 10th International Cretological Congress – Chania 2011

[2014]
http://www.aegeussociety.org/gr/index.php/new-books/10th-cretological-congress/

o Στατιστικά δεδομένα ποσότητας και χωρικής κατανομής βιοκαταλοίπων στο κτίριο

της Εποχής του Χαλκού στα Καταλύματα Γαύδου – M. Andonova, K. Kopaka & A.
Sarpaki
http://www.academia.edu/9679425/%CE%A3%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%BD%CE%B1_%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%8C%CF
%84%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CF%87%CF%89%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE%CF%82_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AE%CF%82_%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%B
F%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%AF%CF%80%CF%89%CE%BD_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF_%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%95%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%87%C
E%AE%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A7%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BB%CF%8D%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1_%CE%93%CE%B1%CF%
8D%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%85

o Aegeans and Anatolians. A Trojan Perspective – P. Pavúk

http://www.academia.edu/9645702/Aegeans_and_Anatolians._A_Trojan_Perspective

o Conspicuous Destruction and the Economy of Sacrifice in the Bronze and Early
Iron Age East Med. – L.A. Hitchcock
http://www.academia.edu/1335400/CONSPICUOUS_DESTRUCION_AND_THE_ECONOMY_OF_SACRIFICE_I
N_THE_BRONZE_AND_EARLY_IRON_AGE_EAST_MEDITERRANEAN

o A Story of Lions: Palatial Ideology in Egypt, Knossos, and Mycenae –

N. Marinatos
https://www.academia.edu/9549733/A_Story_of_Lions

o Communal storage in Bronze Age Crete: re-assessing testimonies –

K. Christakis
https://www.academia.edu/9611985/Communal_storage_in_Bronze_Age_Crete_re-
assessing_testimonies_%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%A7%CF%81%
CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AC_%CE%9B%CE%94_2014_201-18._

o I censimiti ovini (classe D-) e la cronologia degli archivi di Cnosso – A. Greco

https://www.academia.edu/9618145/The_D-
_Class_tablets_and_the_Chronology_of_the_palace_archives_of_Knossos

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 o Interpreting Domestic Space in Neopalatial Crete: A Few Thoughts on House II
at Petras, Siteia – N. Mavroudi
https://www.academia.edu/9488972/Interpreting_Domestic_Space_in_Neopalatial_Crete_A_Few_Thoughts
_on_House_II_at_Petras_Siteia

o House II.1 at Petras, Siteia: its architectural life – N. Mavroudi

https://www.academia.edu/9489214/House_II.1_at_Petras_Siteia_its_architectural_life

o The Personal Names from the Knossos B Tablets and from the Mycenae
Tablets – C. Varias
https://www.academia.edu/9579639/The_Personal_Names_from_the_Knossos_B_Tablets_and_from_the_M
ycenae_Tablets

o Late Bronze Age Trade within Crete: the evidence of seals and sealings –
J. Weingarten
https://www.academia.edu/5942087/Late_Bronze_Age_Trade_within_Crete_the_evidence_of_seals_and_se
alings

o Προανακτορικά νεκροταφεία θολωτών τάφων στη βόρεια και ανατολική Κρήτη –

Y. Papadatos
https://www.academia.edu/9496750/Papadatos_2014_Tholos_tomb_cemeteries_of_the_Prepalatial_period
_in_North_and_East_Crete_old_problems_and_new_evidence

o Fish, shellfish and fishermen in Prehistoric Aegean – D. Mylona

http://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2014/11/24/fish-shellfish-fishermen-prehistoric-aegean/

New abstracts available online

o 11th International Cretological Congress (Rethymno 2011)

http://www.iler.gr/index.php?perileisig

o Archaeological Reports 60 (2014) is out - Crete (Prehistoric to Hellenistic) –

M. Haysom
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9455529&fileId=S0570608
414000106#.VIclpeqK-co.twitter

o 'Literacies' - 60+ Years of 'Reading' the Aegean Late Bronze Age – J. Bennet
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2014.00076.x/abstract#.VIApN1yJ0xo.twitter

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 o Dating the Thera (Santorini) eruption – S. Manning et al.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/088/ant0881164.htm

o The Minoan eruption dated to 1627-1600 BC: the story of a 4000 year-old
olive tree – W.L. Friedrich et al.
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/santorini/minoan_eruption/1613bc_olive-tree-date.html

December lectures, workshops…

o Manchester – TAG 2014: some lectures about Minoan Crete

http://www.tag-manchester.org/?page_id=298

o New York, Dec. 12: All that glisters is not gold: EB II Mochlos in its Eastern
Mediterranean Context – T. Carter
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/index.htm

o Athens, Dec.11: Festòs e Haghia Triada. Ricerche in corso – G. Baldacci & S.

Privitera
http://www.facebook.com/229965733834162/photos/pcb.386929504804450/386929374804463/?type=1
&theater

o CHS, Dec. 6: Minoan Communities and Commemorative Practices: the Late

Prepalatial to Protopalatial Tholos Tomb A at Apesokari/Crete – G. Flouda
http://wp.chs.harvard.edu/chs-fellows/2014/11/25/abstract-minoan-communities-and-commemorative-
practices/

Forthcoming lectures, workshops…

o Dublin, EAC 9, Jan. 17: Using 3D Laser Scanning and Experimental Archaeology
to Understand Cretan Bronze Age Figurines – C. Morris, A. Peatfield & B.
O'Neill
http://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/documentstore/events/eac9/EAC9_Programme_Dublin_16-
18_January_2015_v2.pdf

o Cambridge, March 2015: Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The

Aegean Writing Systems
http://www.cambridgeadventurer.net/urbs/papers.html

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 o Pointe-à-Callière, Jan. 15: Le roi Minos : art et archéologie de la Crète à
l’époque des grands palais – M. Tsipopoulou
http://www.bellessoirees.umontreal.ca/les-grecs-dagamemnon-a-alexandre-le-
grand.html#.VH2lw8suID8.twitter

o Toronto, Jan. 2015: From Static Data to Dynamic Processes. New Perspectives
on Minoan Architecture and Urbanism
http://sites.uclouvain.be/arc-crisis/?p=11153

o New Orleans, Jan. 2015 – AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting 2015: preliminary
program
https://www.archaeological.org/sites/default/files/files/2015AM%20-
%20AIA%20Preliminary%20Program.pdf

Book reviews

o Y.V. Andreyev, From Eurasia to Europe: Crete and the Aegean World in the
Bronze and Early Iron Ages (3rd - early 1st millennia BC) – M. Mikrakis
http://www.bmcreview.org/2014/12/20141226.html

o C.F. Clarke, The manufacture of Minoan metal vessels: theory and practice –
A. Dolfini
http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/reviews/157

Call for papers

o ASA, Edinburgh, June 2015

http://conferences.hss.ed.ac.uk/asa2015/call-for-papers/

o EAA, Glasgow, Sept. 2015

http://eaaglasgow2015.com/

o Athens, Sept. 2015: The 13th European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics

http://www.emac2015.gr/

o Bonn, April 2015: Impacts on Transportation. Costs, Politics and Archaeological

Evidence
http://www.wirtschaftsarchaeologie.de/en/call-for-papers-impacts-on-transportation/

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 o Barcelona, Sept. 2015: 'On the Rocks'. International Symposium on Knappable
Materials
https://www.academia.edu/9689858/On_the_Rocks__International_Symposium_on_Knappable_Materials_-
_Call-for-papers

o Copenhagen, May 2015: First Textiles.The Beginnings of Textile Manufacture in

Europe and the Mediterranean
http://ctr.hum.ku.dk/economy/first_textiles

Exhibitions

o Khania: Οι “κρυμμένοι” θησαυροί του αρχαιολογικού μουσείου

http://www.haniotika-nea.gr/krimmeni-thisavri-tou-archeologikou-mousiou/
http://www.haniotika-nea.gr/media/2014/12/diadromes13dek.pdf

o 'Greece of Origins: Between Dream and Archaeology' on view at the Musée

d'Archéologie nationale
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=74904&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#.VI
7IbTGG8gF

o Exposition : "La Grèce des origines, entre rêve et archéologie" – H. Duchêne

http://www.histoire.presse.fr/agenda/expositions/prince-ou-boxeur-04-12-2014-124781

o Press release about the exhibition "Greece of origins", Paris

http://musee-archeologienationale.fr/sites/musee-
archeologienationale.fr/files/dp_grece_des_origines.pdf

o Paris, Musée d'Archéologie nationale : La Grèce des origines. Entre rêve et

archéologie
http://musee-archeologienationale.fr/actualite/expositions/la-grece-des-origines-entre-reve-et-
archeologie

Useful FB links, websites…

o Minoan seminar (also on FB)

http://www.minoanseminar.gr/

o Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro - PALAP

https://www.facebook.com/Palaikastro

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 o Akrotiri and Knossos: Unesco World Heritage Sites NOW
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Akrotiri-and-Knossos-Unesco-World-Heritage-Sites-
NOW/481222851902694?pnref=story

o Petras Excavations, Siteia, Crete

https://www.facebook.com/Petras.excavations

o Minoan Tastes
https://www.facebook.com/MinoanTastes

Elsewhere on the web

o …The Minoan Tarot….

http://jameswells.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/the-minoan-tarot-is-here/

o |Video| Knossos at the British Museum and the British Museum at Knossos –
A. Shapland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyR66SA0Q0k

o |Audio Recording| 111 years of excavation and exploration at Knossos – P.M.

Warren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMldA8XM96Q

o |Audio Recording| 'The Minoan Distance': Knossos from modernism to post-

modernism – G. Cadogan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekZ2RgVIT74

o CMS – Seal of the month

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/cms/monthlySeal/monthlySeal.html

o Two Sissi pictures chosen for the Past Preservers calendar – congrats to Gavin
McGuire and Lina Manousogiannaki!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152605017048576.1073741847.18628618575&type=3

o Athens, BSA: Postgraduate Course in Pottery: 28th March - 10th April 2015.
Deadline for Applications: 31st January 2015
http://www.bsa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=147%3Apg-course-in-
prehistoric-greek-and-roman-pottery&catid=14&Itemid=101

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 o 2nd International Petras Symposium (poster)
https://www.facebook.com/Petras.excavations/photos/np.729725.100006374041812/1654645071428974
/?type=1&notif_t=notify_me

o So many years dedicated to the Minoans, without knowing that there is a band
called "Minoans", with a digital album: "Linear B"?? – check this out!
http://minoans.bandcamp.com/

o The Formation of Santorini [VIDEO]

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/12/05/the-formation-of-santorini-video/

o Useful activity for your kids... or yourself :) Ancient Minoan Dresses Coloring
Pages
http://scoloringpages.com/ancient-minoan-dresses-coloring-pages/

o Benaki Museum: educational program. An architectural approach to Prehistory:

I. The Aegean (in Greek)
http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=3020301&sid=1065&cat=0&lang=gr

©Minoan News 2014

★★★★★

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