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Book SynopsisOver her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many areas of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Europe, deploying a canny eye for detail, but never losing sight of the big picture. Her collected works include contributions on the relationship between Homeric epic and archaeology; the economy of ceramics, metals and other materials; the status of the ‘Sea Peoples’ and other ethnic terminologies; routes and different forms of interaction; and the history of museums/collecting (especially relating to Sir Arthur Evans). The editors of
ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ (
Athyrmata) have brought together a cast of thirty-two scholars from nine different countries who have contributed these twenty-six papers to mark Sue’s 65th birthday – a collection that seeks to reflect both her broad range of interests and her ever-questioning approach to uncovering the realities of life in Europe and the Mediterranean in later prehistory.
Table of ContentsIntroduction (Yannis Galanakis, Toby Wilkinson and John Bennet) ;
A selected list of publications by Sue Sherratt (as of autumn 2014) ;
How and when did Tel Akko get its unusual banana shape? (Michal Artzy and Jamie Quartermaine) ;
The integration of gold resources in the Byzantine economy: an open question (Evanthia Baboula) ;
The ‘Sea Peoples’ as an emergent phenomenon (Alexander A. Bauer) ;
Pottery mobility, landscape survey and maritime activity: a view from Kythera (Cyprian Broodbank and Evangelia Kiriatzi) ;
‘In vino veritas’: raising a toast at Mycenaean funerals (William Cavanagh and Christopher Mee) ;
Geraki in Laconia in Late Helladic times (Joost Crouwel) ;
How warlike were the Mycenaeans, in reality? (Oliver Dickinson) ;
Desecrating signs: ‘hieroglyphic’ writing systems and secondary script inventions (Silvia Ferrara) ;
Chronologies should carry a ‘use by’ date: the archaeological life history of the ‘Beth Shan Stirrup Jar’ (Elizabeth French) ;
Arthur Evans and the quest for the “origins of Mycenaean culture” (Yannis Galanakis)
[Open Access: Download] ;
Man/Woman, Warrior/Maiden: The Lefkandi Toumba female burial reconsidered (Kate Harrell) ;
The Waz-lily and the Priest’s Axe: can relief-beads tell us something? (Helen Hughes-Brock) ;
‘Working with the shadows’: in search of the myriad forms of social complexity (Maria Iacovou) ;
James Saumarez Cameron: a forgotten collector of Cretan seals (Olga Krzyszkowska) ;
The Post-Mycenaean dead: ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ (Katie Lantzas) ;
The spider’s web: innovation and society in the Early Helladic ‘Period of the Corridor Houses’ (Joseph Maran and Maria Kostoula) ;
‘Metal makes the wheel go round’: the development and diffusion of studded-tread wheels in the Ancient Near East and the Old World (Simone Mühl)
[Open Access: Download] ;
“For it is written”: an experimental approach to the materiality and temporality of clay documents inscribed in Linear B (Tom Pape, Paul Halstead, John Bennet and Yannis Stangidis) ;
A ‘wall bracket’ from Kandia in the Argolid: notes on the local character and function of an ‘east Mediterranean’ artefact of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age (Lorenz Rahmstorf) ;
Reading post-palatial Mycenaean iconography: some lessons from Lefkandi (Jeremy B. Rutter) ;
Functions and meanings of Aegean-type pottery at Tel Beth-Shean (Philipp W. Stockhammer) ;
Ceramic developments in coastal Western Anatolia at the dawn of the Early Iron Age (Rik Vaessen) ;
Beaker Folk in Thrace: a metrological footnote (Michael Vickers) ;
Rosso antico marble and the façade entablature of the Treasury of Atreus (Peter Warren) ;
Feasts of clay? Ceramics and feasting at Early Minoan Myrtos: Fournou Korifi (Todd Whitelaw) ;
Dressing the house, dressing the pots: textile-inspired decoration in the late 3rd and 2nd millennia BC east Mediterranean (Toby C. Wilkinson)
