Power and Place in the Prehistoric Aegean and Beyond
Studies in Honor of James C. Wright
edited by Susan E. Allen, Robert Schon, and R. Angus K. Smith
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(April 2025)
ISBN: 9781931534420
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Collection of papers celebrating the contributions of James C. Wright to Aegean Bronze Age archaeology.
This volume celebrates the contributions and impact of our mentor, colleague, and friend, James C. Wright, on the field of Aegean Bronze archaeology in recognition of his retirement from Bryn Mawr College. The title and thematic orientation reflect his scholarly attention to power inequalities in the past, particularly as manifested through social access to architectural spaces and landscapes. The title acknowledges that Jim’s interests and contributions extend beyond the domain of Aegean Prehistory, not only in terms of chronology and geography, but also in terms of his methodological approaches that have wider application. In addition to Jim’s colleagues and collaborators, more than half of the contributions to the volume are by his students who collectively are but one of many signs of his profound and lasting impact not only on our scholarship, but on the discipline of archaeology itself.
Biographical Note for James C. Wright. Bibliography of James C. Wright. Introduction. Part I, Structuring Power: 1. Deceptive Permanence: Architecture, Agency, and Sociopolitical Transformations in Mycenaean Greece
2. Corridors of Power? Rethinking the Early Bronze Age Corridor House
3. Politics of Power at Mycenae: Modifying the Facade of the Treasury of Atreus
4. Visualizing the Past: 3D Models of Bronze Age Malthi in Messenia
5. Approaches to Studying Vernacular Architecture in the Prehistoric Aegean
6. City and Town as Process: Complexity and Self-Organization in Modern Athens and Ancient Gournia
7. Constructing Power in Late Bronze Age IIA Tarsus-Gozlukule. Part II, Landscapes of Power: 8. Regionalism in Review
9. Late Bronze Age Aegean Seaports in Nafplion
10. Claiming Territory: Kotroni, Kleonai, and the Southern Border of the Corinthia
11. Messenia in LH IIIA: What's Going On?
12. Keeping up with the Klytaimnestras: Interpreting Variation in Mortuary Elements among the Early Mycenaean Elite
13. Turning Military Conquest into Fabulous Wealth: The Drainage of the Kopais Basin and the Consolidation of Palatial Power in Central Greece
14. Cultivating Power: A Political Ecology of Mycenaean Agriculture at Tsoungiza
15. Power and Place in Early Farming Landscapes of the Aegean and Beyond
16. Koiranos and *Koireter?= *Korreter? Among Power Titles in Linear B and Homer
17. Seeing Like a Pylian State
18. Archaeological Research in Nemea during the 1970s
19. Power and Place of Metals in the Aegean-Anatolian Interactions of the Second Millennium b.c.e
20. Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Explorations in the Northern Black Sea Region. Part III, The Power of Things: 21. Some Implications of the Ceramic Imitation of Metal Rivets during the Shaft Grave Era
22. Memory as a Political Strategy at Kakovatos
23. Mycenaean Mirrors in Life and Death
24. Spineless Kylikes
25. Empty Cups and Empty Bowls: An Early Neopalatial Feasting Deposit from Gournia
26. Two Pertinent Pieces of Black-Figure Pottery at Bryn Mawr College
27. Postscript: Looking Back, Moving Forward.
Susan Allen: Associate Professor and Department Head in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati, located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her research focuses on agricultural transitions, the role of land management practices in the emergence of social inequality, and the historical and political ecology of wetlands in southeastern Europe. In the field, she co-directed (with Ilir Gjipali) surface survey at the Early Neolithic sites of Podgorie and Vashtemi in southern Albania and excavation at Vashtemi, and she has participated in fieldwork at several sites in southeastern Europe. As a palaeoethnobotanist, Allen directed archaeobotanical work at the Mycenaean site of Iklaina, and she has analyzed the botanical assemblages from Final Neolithic to Late Helladic III Tsoungiza and several sites in Albania, Hungary, and Romania. Robert Schon: Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and the Department of Religious Studies & Classics at the University of Arizona. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology. In the field, he is the director of the University of Arizona’s excavations at the ancient city of Segesta in Sicily. At Bryn Mawr College, Schon wrote his MA thesis, on chariot manufacture at Pylos, and his PhD dissertation, on archaeological survey methods, under Jim Wright’s guidance. R. Angus Smith: Professor in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. A specialist in the archaeology, art, and culture of Bronze Age Greece, he is particularly interested in pottery analysis, mortuary archaeology, and issues of identity. In the field, he is an associate director of excavations at the Minoan town of Gournia on Crete, where he is studying the Neopalatial and Postpalatial pottery. He also co-directed (with Jim Wright and Mary Dabney) the excavations of the Mycenaean cemetery of Ayia Sotira near Ancient Nemea and worked for many years at the Minoan site of Mochlos on Crete. Smith currently serves as the Past-President of the Canadian Institute in Greece as well as President of the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
- Edited by Susan E. Allen
- Edited by R. Angus K. Smith
- Edited by Robert Schon
Other Titles in this Series
The Cave of the Cyclops
Mesolithic and Neolithic Networks in the Northern Aegean, Greece. Volume II: Bone Tool Industries, Dietary Resources and the Paleoenvironment, and Archeometrical Studies
Volume 31
Mochlos IB
Period III. Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri: The Neopalatial Pottery
Volume 8
Kos in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
The Halasarna Finds and the Aegean Settlement Pattern
Volume 38
The Shrine of Eileithyia
Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood, at the Inatos Cave: Volume II: The Pottery and Figurines
Volume 74
Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi
Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Storage Containers in Bronze Age Crete
Volume 18
Mochlos IIC
Period IV. The Mycenaean Settlement and Cemetery: The Human Remains and Other Finds
Volume 32
Petras, Siteia II
A Minoan Palatial Settlement in Eastern Crete: Late Bronze Age Pottery from Houses I.1 and I.2
Volume 67
Neolithic Settlement of Knossos in Crete
New Evidence for the Early Occupation of Crete and the Aegean Islands
Volume 42
Kleronomia
Legacy and Inheritance. Studies on the Aegean Bronze Age in Honor of Jeffrey S. Soles
Volume 61
Mochlos IC
Period III. Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri: The Small Finds
Volume 9
AMILLA
The Quest for Excellence: Studies Presented to Guenter Kopcke in Celebration of His 75th Birthday
Volume 43
Ayioryitika
The 1928 Excavations of Carl Blegen at a Neolithic to Early Helladic Settlement in Arcadia
Volume 3
An Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape
A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity
Volume 37
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