Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 8 2023

This volume opens with a tribute to Andrew Stewart (1948-2023), a scholar of immense knowledge and energy and a great supporter of this Journal from its creation. For this latest edition, as always the editors have encouraged and succeeded in including contributions spanning the millennia of Greek Archaeology in its fullest sense.

Our volume opens on a very sad note, the sudden passing of that great scholar of Greek Art, Andrew Stewart (1948-2023). A scholar of immense knowledge and energy, Andy was also greatly loved and admired by his students as well as innumerable colleagues in international scholarship. He supported this Journal from its creation, peer-reviewed papers, contributed his own pathbreaking articles, and encouraged others to successfully offer their work to us. Over many books and papers he gave us unique insights into Greek artistic culture, a contribution to the field which is irreplaceable. This volume is dedicated to him, while our first article is an appreciation by his close friend and colleague Tonio Holscher. Later in this volume the article by Maria Panagiotonakou is also dedicated to Andy’s memory. Moving on to the other contents of this volume, as always we have encouraged and succeeded in spanning the millennia of Greek Archaeology in its fullest sense. We begin with Copper Age and Early Bronze Age lithic industries and food economies in Attica and Cyprus respectively, before diving into the complexities of the dating of the immense eruption of Santorini in the early Late Bronze Age. A detailed geographic study of Cretan settlement history over the Late Bronze Age and into Protohistoric times is complemented by an article on the existence or not of a Dorian invasion of the island over the same period. For the Early Iron Age, an innovative exploration of Geometric vase decoration deploys the patterning of chess moves. With Classical-Hellenistic times we learn about houses and group dining in Sicily and a contextual analysis of the construction of the Segesta theatre on the same island. In the absence of Roman-era offerings (readers and prospective authors please note!), we jump to two papers on Medieval ceramics. One focusses on their production in Messenia, the other is a response to a review on architectural ceramics (bacini) in Crete that appeared in Volume 7. Finally we give you a study of physical landscape transformation by geoarchaeologists from the Valley of the Muses in Boeotia, and a very insightful report on public outreach initiatives undertaken by an archaeological project in the Xeros valley on Cyprus. Following on these articles there appears our usual wide-ranging set of book reviews, compiled by our Assistant Editor Damjan Donev. John Bintliff, General Editor

Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 8: Editorial Encounters with Andrew Stewart - Tonio Holscher Prehistory and Protohistory Chipped Stone Industries of Attica, Southern Greece: the assemblages of a Bronze Age (Early Helladic II) site at Phaleron Bay - Odysseas Kakavakis Foodways in prehistoric Cyprus: a view from the Kouris valley during the 5th and 4th millennia cal BC - Ioannis Voskos, Dimitris Kloukinas, Anastasios Georgotas, Antonia Marda-Stypsianou, Maria Roumpou, Efrossini Vika and Eleni Mantzourani Minoan eruption chronology: a synthesis for the non-initiated - Tiziano Fantuzzi The history of settlement in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Crete: a review and synthesis - Dominic Pollard Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: Cretan archaeology and the Dorian invasion - Catharine Judson Modelling the decorative patterns of a Geometric oinochoe. An interpretative approach using chess-related terminology and metaphors - Gioulika Christakopoulou Archaic to Hellenistic Houses, convivial meals and tableware at Himera in the 5th century BC - Oscar Belvedere Reassessing evidence: a new proposal for the dating of the theatre of Segesta - Maria Panagiotonakou Medieval Late medieval glazed painted wares from Messenia and the question of local pottery production - Alexandra Konstantinidou Review response: Anastasia G. Yangaki, Ceramics in Plain Sight: The Bacini of the Churches of Crete - Anastasia G. Yangaki Multiperiod Geoarchaeological evidence of landscape degradation in the Valley of the Muses (Boeotia, Greece) during classical antiquity - Jose Luis Pena-Monne and Maria Marta Sampietro-Vattuone Landscape archaeology in a contested space: Public engagement and outreach in the Xeros River valley in Cyprus - Athanasios K. Vionis, Giorgos Papantoniou and Niki Savvides Book Reviews Prehistory Natalie Abell, Keos XII. Ayia Irini: Area B - Oliver Dickinson Jack L. Davis (with contributions by Sharon R. Stocker). A Greek State In Formation. The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos - Oliver Dickinson Joanne M.A. Murphy and Jerolyn E. Morrison (eds), Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance. Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles - Laura E. Alvarez Yannick Boswinkel, Labouring With Large Stones. A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece - Oliver Dickinson Daniel R. Turner, Grave Reminders. Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory - Oliver Dickinson Karina Gromer with contributions by R. Hofmann-de Keijzer and H.R. Mautendorfer. The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making. The Development of Craft Traditions and Clothing in Central Europe - Kalliope Sarri Classical Jenifer Neils and Dylan K. Rogers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens - Roel Konijnendijk A. Konecny and N. Sekunda (eds), The Battle of Plataiai 479 BC - Oliver Dickinson Malcolm Bell iii, The City Plan and Political Agora (Morgantina Studies VII) - Oscar Belvedere Angelika Kellner, Die griechische A,

Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 8: Editorial

Encounters with Andrew Stewart – Tonio Hölscher

Prehistory and Protohistory

Chipped Stone Industries of Attica, Southern Greece: the assemblages of a Bronze Age (Early Helladic II) site at Phaleron Bay – Odysseas Kakavakis

Foodways in prehistoric Cyprus: a view from the Kouris valley during the 5th and 4th millennia cal BC – Ioannis Voskos, Dimitris Kloukinas, Anastasios Georgotas, Antonia Marda-Stypsianou, Maria Roumpou, Efrossini Vika and Eleni Mantzourani

Minoan eruption chronology: a synthesis for the non-initiated – Tiziano Fantuzzi

The history of settlement in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Crete: a review and synthesis – Dominic Pollard

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: Cretan archaeology and the Dorian invasion – Catharine Judson

Modelling the decorative patterns of a Geometric oinochoe. An interpretative approach using chess-related terminology and metaphors – Gioulika Christakopoulou

Archaic to Hellenistic

Houses, convivial meals and tableware at Himera in the 5th century BC – Oscar Belvedere

Reassessing evidence: a new proposal for the dating of the theatre of Segesta – Maria Panagiotonakou

Medieval

Late medieval glazed painted wares from Messenia and the question of local pottery production – Alexandra Konstantinidou

Review response: Anastasia G. Yangaki, Ceramics in Plain Sight: The Bacini of the Churches of Crete – Anastasia G. Yangaki

Multiperiod

Geoarchaeological evidence of landscape degradation in the Valley of the Muses (Boeotia, Greece) during classical antiquity – José Luis Peña-Monné and María Marta Sampietro-Vattuone

Landscape archaeology in a contested space: Public engagement and outreach in the Xeros River valley in Cyprus – Athanasios K. Vionis, Giorgos Papantoniou and Niki Savvides

Book Reviews

Prehistory

Natalie Abell, Keos XII. Ayia Irini: Area B – Oliver Dickinson

Jack L. Davis (with contributions by Sharon R. Stocker). A Greek State In Formation. The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos – Oliver Dickinson

Joanne M.A. Murphy and Jerolyn E. Morrison (eds), Kleronomia: Legacy and Inheritance. Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles – Laura E. Alvarez

Yannick Boswinkel, Labouring With Large Stones. A Study into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece – Oliver Dickinson

Daniel R. Turner, Grave Reminders. Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory – Oliver Dickinson

Karina Grömer with contributions by R. Hofmann-de Keijzer and H.R. Mautendorfer. The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making. The Development of Craft Traditions and Clothing in Central Europe – Kalliope Sarri

Classical

Jenifer Neils and Dylan K. Rogers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens – Roel Konijnendijk

A. Konecny and N. Sekunda (eds), The Battle of Plataiai 479 BC – Oliver Dickinson

Malcolm Bell iii, The City Plan and Political Agora (Morgantina Studies VII) – Oscar Belvedere

Angelika Kellner, Die griechische Archaik. Konstruktion einer Chronologie im Wechselspiel schriftlicher und archäologischer Quellen – Rebecca Klug

Roman

Scotton, P.D., C.D.G. Vanderpool and C. Roncaglia. The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy – Dylan K. Rogers

Valentina Di Napoli, Francesco Camia, Vasilis Evangelidis, Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Dylan Rogers, and Stavros Vlizos (eds), What’s New in Roman Greece: Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period – Andrew Erskine

Multiperiod

Nikolas Dimakis and Tamara M. Dijkstra (eds), Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece: Studies on ancient Greek death and burial – Robin Osborne

John W. Hayes and Kathleen Warner Slane, Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery (Isthmia XI) – Philip Bes

Sir John Boardman, James Hargrave, Alexander Avram, Alexander Podossinov, Connecting the Ancient West and East: Studies Presented to Prof. Gocha R. Tsteskhladze – Richard Kendall

Stella Demesticha and Lucy Blue with Calliope Baika, Carlo Beltrame, David Blackman, Deborah Cvikel, Helen Farr and Dorit Sivan. Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in Maritime ArchaeologyThe Minoan Shipwreck at Pseira, Crete – Saro Wallace

Heritage Management

Helene Simoni, Geographical Information Systems in Urban Archaeology and Urban Planning. A case study of a modern Greek city, built on top of an ancient city – Kostas Sbonias

Historiography

Kim Beerden and Timo Epping (eds), Classical Controversies. Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century – Ulrike Roth

• Edited by John Bintliff