Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsPreface ;
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
