Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 6 2021

Volume 6 maintains the journal’s goal to cover the broad chronological spread of Greek Archaeology, ranging from a new review of the Mesolithic occupation at Theopetra, to a detailed analysis of how the distribution of Middle Byzantine churches in the Peloponnese enlightens us into the evolution of human settlement and land use.

Volume 6 maintains the journal’s goal to cover the broad chronological spread of Greek Archaeology, ranging from a new review of the Mesolithic occupation at Theopetra, one of the most important hunter-gatherer sites in Greece, to a detailed analysis of how the distribution of Middle Byzantine churches in the Peloponnese enlightens us into the evolution of human settlement and land use. Prehistory is richly represented in further articles, as we learn about Middle Bronze Age society on Lefkas, the dispute over exotic primates portrayed on the frescoes of Santorini, a new Minoan-style peak sanctuary on Naxos, and Post-Palatial settlement structure on Crete. Bridging prehistory to historical times, a detailed study rethinks the burial and settlement evidence for Early Iron Age Athens, then entering the Archaic period, an original article links textual analysis and material culture to investigate dedicatory behaviour in Ionian sanctuaries. As a special treat, that doyen of Greek plastic arts Andrew Stewart, asks us to look again at the evidence for the birth of the Classical Style in Greek sculpture. Greek theatres in Sicily are next contextualised into contemporary politics, while the sacred Classical landscape of the island of Salamis is explored with innovative GIS-techniques. For the seven-hundred years or so of Roman rule we are given an indepth presentation of regional economics from Central Greece, and a thorough review of harbours and maritime navigation for Late Roman Crete. Finally we must mention a methodological article, deploying the rich data from the Nemea landscape survey, to tackle issues of changing land use and the sometimes controversial topic of ancient manuring.

Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 6: Editorial - John Bintliff Method and Theory Farming on the Fringe: Diachronic Changes in Land-Use Patterns and Agricultural Strategies in Ancient Nemea - Christian F. Cloke Prehistoric and Protohistoric The Thessalian Mesolithic: Evidence from Theopetra Cave - Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika Middle Helladic Tombs at Nydri Plain, Lefkas Island. An Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Study - Vivian Staikou, Panagiotis D. Sianis, Despoina Vassou, Nikolaos Psonis, Morten E. Allentoft and George Iliopoulos A New Minoan-Type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos? - Tristan Carter, Kristine Mallinson, Vagia Mastrogiannopoulou, Daniel A. Contreras, Charlotte Diffey, Claudette Lopez, Marie N. Pareja, Georgia Tsartsidou and Dimitris Athanasoulis Langurs in the Aegean Bronze Age? A Review of a Recent Debate on Archaeoprimatology and Animal Identification in Ancient Iconography - Julia Binnberg, Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos Public vs Private: The Four Categories of Open-Air Spaces at the Late Minoan IIIC Middle Settlement at Monastiraki-Halasmenos (Ierapetra, Crete) - David W. Rupp Reinterpreting the Diachronic Variations in the Numbers of Burials Known from Early Iron Age Athens - Maximilian F. Ronnberg Archaic to Hellenistic Shedding Light on the Matter: Evaluating Changing Patterns of Object Dedication in Ionian Sanctuaries (7th/6th - 5th/4th centuries BC) with Lexicometrical Analysis - Michael Loy and Anja Slawisch Continuity or Rupture? Further Thoughts on the 'Classical Revolution' (2500+ Years after Salamis) - Andrew Stewart Sicilian Theatres with Paraskenia Scene Buildings: An Updated Framework for their Chronological Integration - Maria Panagiotonakou Echoes of the Tragic in the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Salamis: A Geospatial Analysis of Hero Cult - Michael Delacruz Roman and Late Roman Geographies, Institutions, and Agencies: Ceramic and Socio-Economic Regions and Regionality in (Late) Hellenistic-Late Roman Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC-AD 700) - Dean Peeters Port and Harbour Networks in Crete during Late Antiquity (4th - mid-7th c. AD): A Modern Approach - Konstantinos Roussos Medieval and Post-Medieval Church Construction as a Proxy for Economic Development: the Medieval Settlement Expansion Phase in the Peloponnese - Maria Papadaki BOOK REVIEWS Prehistory and Protohistory Sarah C. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy. Imports, Trade and Institutions 1300-700 BCE / Chrysanthi Gallou, Death in Mycenaean Laconia. A Silent Place /James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (with contributions by Phoebe Acheson, Susan F. Allen, Kathleen M. Forster, Paul Halstead, S.M.A. Hoffman, Anna Karabatsoli, Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou, Bartlomiej Lis, Rebecca Mersereau, Hans Mommsen, Jeremy B. Rutter, Tatiana Theodoropoulou, and Jonathan E. Tomlinson), The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project III) - Oliver Dickinson Gioulika-Olga Christakopoulou, To Die in Style! The Residential Lifestyle of Feasting and Dying in Iron Age Stamna, Greece - John Bintliff Archaic to Hellenistic Oliver Hulden, Das griechische Befestigungswesen der archaischen Zeit. Entwicklungen - Formen - Funktionen - Hans Lohmann Peter van Alfen and Ute Wartenberg (eds) (with Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Haim Gitler, Koray Konuk, and Catharine C. Lorber), White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage - Keith Rutter Marta Gonzalez Gonzalez, Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece: Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion - Fabienne Marchand Robert S. Wagman, The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine - Maria Mili Natascha Sojc (ed.), Akragas. Current Issues in the Archaeology of a Sicilian Polis - Johannes Bergemann Roman to Late Roman Laura Pfuntner, Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily. - Michalis Karambinis Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome. The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity - Bryan Ward-Perkins Rinse Willet, The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor - Mark P.C. Jackson Medieval to Postmedieval Charalambos Bouras, Byzantine Athens, 10th-12th Centuries / Nickephoros I. Tsougarakis and Peter Lock (eds), A Companion to Latin Greece / Joanita Vroom (ed.), Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction. / Joanita Vroom, Yona Waksman and Roos van Oosten (eds), Medieval Masterchef. Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways - John Bintliff Multiperiod Maria-Paz de Hoz, Juan Luis Garcia Alonso and Luis Arturo Guichard Romero (eds), Greek paideia and local tradition in the Graeco-Roman east - Dorothea Stavrou John Ellis Jones and Ourania Kouka, Elis 1969. The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project: British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at Kostoureika and Keramidia 1969 / Effie Photos-Jones and Alan J Hall, Eros, mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos in antiquity: The archaeology of the minerals industry of Melos - John Bintliff Bleda S. During and Claudia Glatz (eds), Kinetic Landscapes, the Cide Archaeological Project: Surveying the Turkish Western Black Sea Coast - James Crow J. Rasmus Brandt, Erika Hagelberg, Gro Bjornstad and Sven Ahrens (eds), Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology - Willem M. Jongman Caroline Arnould-Behar and Veronique Vassal (eds), Art et archeologie du Proche-Orient hellenistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol.1 / Caroline Arnould-Behar and Veronique Vassal (eds), Art et archeologie du Proche-Orient hellenistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol. 2 - Andrew Erskine Historiography and Theory
John Boardman, A Classical Archaeologist's Life: The Story So Far. An Autobiography - Robin Osborne, Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 6: Editorial – John Bintliff Method and TheoryChristian F. Cloke Prehistoric and ProtohistoricNina Kyparissi-ApostolikaVivian Staikou, Panagiotis D. Sianis, Despoina Vassou, Nikolaos Psonis, Morten E. Allentoft and George IliopoulosTristan Carter, Kristine Mallinson, Vagia Mastrogiannopoulou, Daniel A. Contreras, Charlotte Diffey, Claudette Lopez, Marie N. Pareja, Georgia Tsartsidou and Dimitris Athanasoulis and Animal Identification in Ancient Iconography – Julia Binnberg, Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios YoulatosDavid W. RuppMaximilian F. Rönnberg Archaic to HellenisticMichael Loy and Anja Slawisch (2500+ Years after Salamis) – Andrew StewartParaskenia Scene Buildings: An Updated Framework for their Chronological Integration – Maria Panagiotonakou of Hero Cult – Michael Delacruz Roman and Late Roman in (Late) Hellenistic-Late Roman Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC-AD 700) – Dean PeetersKonstantinos Roussos Medieval and Post-Medieval Expansion Phase in the Peloponnese – Maria Papadaki BOOK REVIEWS [OPEN ACCESS] DOI: 10.32028/9781789698886-16 Prehistory and ProtohistoryThe Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy. Imports, Trade and Institutions 1300–700 BCE / Chrysanthi Gallou, Death in Mycenaean Laconia. A Silent Place/James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (with contributions by Phoebe Acheson, Susan F. Allen, Kathleen M. Forster, Paul Halstead, S.M.A. Hoffman, Anna Karabatsoli, Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou, Bartłomiej Lis, Rebecca Mersereau, Hans Mommsen, Jeremy B. Rutter, Tatiana Theodoropoulou, and Jonathan E. Tomlinson), The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project III) – Oliver DickinsonTo Die in Style! The Residential Lifestyle of Feasting and Dying in Iron Age Stamna, Greece – John Bintliff Archaic to HellenisticDas griechische Befestigungswesen der archaïschen Zeit. Entwicklungen – Formen – Funktionen – Hans LohmannWhite Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage – Keith RutterFunerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece: Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion – Fabienne MarchandThe Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine – Maria MiliAkragas. Current Issues in the Archaeology of a Sicilian Polis – Johannes Bergemann Roman to Late RomanUrbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily. – Michalis KarambinisEscape from Rome. The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity – Bryan Ward-PerkinsThe Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor – Mark P.C. Jackson Medieval to PostmedievalByzantine Athens, 10th-12th Centuries / Nickephoros I. Tsougarakis and Peter Lock (eds), A Companion to Latin Greece / Joanita Vroom (ed.), Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction. / Joanita Vroom, Yona Waksman and Roos van Oosten (eds), Medieval Masterchef. Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways – John Bintliff MultiperiodGreek paideia and local tradition in the Graeco-Roman east – Dorothea Stavrou Elis 1969. The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project: British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at Kostoureika and Keramidia 1969 / Effie Photos-Jones and Alan J Hall, Eros, mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos in antiquity: The archaeology of the minerals industry of Melos – John BintliffKinetic Landscapes, the Cide Archaeological Project: Surveying the Turkish Western Black Sea Coast – James CrowLife and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology – Willem M. JongmanArt et archéologie du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol.1 / Caroline Arnould-Béhar and Véronique Vassal (eds), Art et archéologie du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol. 2 – Andrew Erskine Historiography and TheoryA Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story So Far. An Autobiography – Robin Osborne