The Wider Island of Pelops

The Wider Island of Pelops explores the myriad ways in which pottery was created, utilized, and experienced in the prehistoric Aegean, across a period of more than 4000 years between the Middle Neolithic and the Early Iron Age transition. Pottery is capable both of creating bonds and creating barriers. It serves as a sociocultural call and response, marking similarity and difference, collectivism and individualism, knowledge, and the absence of knowledge. Contextually-bound, it embodies identities, memories and multiple histories. It reflects choice and reinforces orthodoxy; a product of change, and a driver of it, that both creates and curates understanding of the world. Necessity and commodity, at times anachronistic, and at others, avant-garde, it is subversive and slavish, innovative and derivative; visible always, and never without value. The seventeen papers collected here provide a diachronic perspective on the value of pottery in marking and mediating cross-scale sociocultural discourse; in framing and facilitating the transmission of knowledge and meaning; in driving economies; in the preservation of memory, in the practice of cult; and, in more recent times, as a vector in the dialogue of imperialism: at once introducing key themes in the study of Aegean pottery, and providing a snapshot of recent archaeological work in Greece.

Preface Professor Christopher Mee (1950-2013) The Late-Final Neolithic and Early Helladic I Pottery from Midea in the Argolid: Continuity and Change - Eva Alram-Stern, Clare Burke, Katie Demakopoulou, and Peter M. Day Kouphovouno and the Cyclades: A Note - Robin Barber A Submerged EH II Settlement at Lambayanna in the Argolid: The Preliminary Results of the 2015 Survey - Julien Beck, Patrizia Birchler Emery, Despina Koutsoumba Tradition, Transition, and the Impact of the New in Neolithic Greece - William Cavanagh and Josette Renard Final Neolithic and Early Helladic Pottery from Geraki - Joost Crouwel Understanding Mycenae - E.B. French Localism and Interconnectivity in a Post-Palatial Laconian Maritime Landscape (Late Helladic IIIC to Submycenaean/Early Protogeometric) - Chrysanthi Gallou, Jon Henderson, Elias Spondylis, William Cavanagh Similarities and Differences between Korakou and Kolonna in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages - Walter Gauss The Ceramic Assemblage of Leska on Kythera - Mercourios Georgiadis Regional Diversities or Occupational Gap? Pottery Styles During the Late 14th and 13th Centuries BC at Ayios Vasileios - Eleftheria Kardamaki, Vasco Hachtmann, Adamantia Vasilogamvrou, Nektarios Karadimas, Sofia Voutsaki The Expansion of Mortuary Behaviour and Rites Across the Coastal Caves of the Mani Peninsula, Laconia, during the Final Neolithic: Evidence from the Burial Sites of Skoini 3 and Skoini 4 - Stella Katsarou and Andreas Darlas Attica during the Final Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age: Regional Ceramic Traditions and Connections with Neighbouring Areas - Margarita Nazou The Study of Mycenaean Pottery from Cyprus: A Short Story of the 1895 British Museum Excavations at Site D, Kourion - Angelos Papadopoulos Filling a Gap: First Steps in the Discovery of Early Helladic III Laconia - Aris Papayiannis Ceramic Surprises from LH IIIC Aigeira - Jeremy Rutter Coarse Labours Long Continued: Cooking Vessels, Culinary Technology and Prehistoric Foodways at Phylakopi, Melos - David Michael Smith Ritual Pyres in Minoan Peak Sanctuaries. Reality and Popular Myths - Iphigeneia Tournavitou, Preface ;

Professor Christopher Mee (1950-2013) ;

The Late-Final Neolithic and Early Helladic I Pottery from Midea in the Argolid: Continuity and Change – Eva Alram-Stern, Clare Burke, Katie Demakopoulou, and Peter M. Day Kouphovouno and the Cyclades: A Note – Robin Barber A Submerged EH II Settlement at Lambayanna in the Argolid: The Preliminary Results of the 2015 Survey – Julien Beck, Patrizia Birchler Emery, Despina Koutsoumba Tradition, Transition, and the Impact of the New in Neolithic Greece – William Cavanagh and Josette Renard Final Neolithic and Early Helladic Pottery from Geraki – Joost Crouwel Understanding Mycenae – E.B. French † ;