Table of Contents

List of contributors Abbreviations List of figures List of tables Preface   1 Introduction Colin Renfrew Before the Bronze Age   2 Past in the past: examples of Neolithic figurines from mainland Greece and Early Cycladic anthropomorphic imagery Fanis Mavridis Attica   3 An Early Cycladic figurine from the Acropolis of Athens Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki Appendix: optical examination of a Cycladic-type marble figurine from the Acropolis and vessels from Makronisos in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens Dimitris Tambakopoulos & Yannis Maniatis   4 Aghios Kosmas revisited: the Cycladic figurines from the Early Helladic site at Aghios Kosmas in Attica Katerina Kostanti & Alexandra Christopoulou   5 Two Cycladic figurines from subterranean Chamber III, in the Early Helladic settlement at Koropi, eastern Attica Olga Kakavogianni   6 Cycladic figurines from Tsepi, Marathon Maria Pantelidou Gofa   7 Fragment of an Early Cycladic folded-arm figurine from the acropolis of Brauron Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos   8 An Early Helladic figurine from Loutsa, Attica Maria Stathi   9 A schematic figurine from the area of Kephissos in Aegaleo, Αthens Eleni Asimakou   10 A figurine from a tomb at Mandra in western Attica Kalliopi Papangeli   11 A fragmentary Cycladic figurine from Nea Kephisia, Attica Theodora Georgousopoulou   12 Cycladic-type figurines from the Early Helladic cemetery of Asteria at Glyfada, Attica Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou Appendix: the bioarchaeological context of the Asteria figurines Eleanna Prevedorou Peloponnese   13 Early Cycladic sculpture from Delpriza in the southern Argolid Angeliki Kossyva   14 Cycladic figurine from the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas in Epidauria Vassilis Lambrinoudakis   15 A Cycladic figurine from Upper Epidaurus Christos Piteros   16 An Early Cycladic figurine from a Late Protogeometric burial context in Argos Evangelia Pappi North Aegean, Boeotia, Euboea, Phthiotis and Skyros   17 Early Bronze Age schematic figurines from Thermi on Lesbos Olga Philaniotou   18 A comment on a Cycladic figurine in the Archaeological Museum of Thebes Eleni Andrikou   19 Cycladic figurines from Euboea Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki   20 Manika revisited: a recontextualisation of Euboean Cycladica in the light of new research Adamantios Sampson & Athena Hadji   21 Cycladic marble figurines from the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Nea Styra, Euboea Maria Kosma   22 Cycladica from the settlement at Palamari on Skyros Liana Parlama   23 Conspicuous consumption in the settlement context of Early Bronze Age Proskynas in East Lokris, central Greece Eleni Zahou Dodecanese and Asia Minor littoral   24 Early Cycladic figurines from Vathy, Astypalaia Andreas Vlachopoulos & Anastasia Angelopoulou   25 Early Cycladic II and Early Bronze II finds from the Dodecanese: the case of the island of Kos Toula Marketou   26 Αn Early Cycladic anthropomorphic figurine from the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes Athena Hadji   27 Local and imported in action: western Anatolian and Cycladic figurines at Early Bronze Age Miletus Ourania Kouka   28 3rd-millennium BC anthropomorphic figurines of western Anatolia, a comparative view. Towards a better understanding of the origins and meanings of Cycladic figurines Rıza Tuncel & Vasıf Şahoğlu New discoveries in the Cyclades   29 Sculptures from the Papaoikonomou property on Ano Kouphonisi Irini Legaki, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Eugenia Orfanidou Early Cycladic Sculpture in Perspective   30 Early Cycladic sculpture beyond the Cyclades: the Aegean context Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd & Marisa Marthari   Index

About the Author

Marisa Marthari is Ephor of Antiquities (Emerita) at the Greek Archaeological Service and formerly Director of the Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for the Cyclades and Samos, where she conducted numerous excavations and directed projects on museum exhibitions and presentation of archaeological sites. Colin Renfrew (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, born 25th July 1937) was formerly Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge, and Master of Jesus College Cambridge from 1986 to 1997. He has excavated at a number of sites in prehistoric Greece and in the Orkney Islands, and is the author of many publications, including Prehistory: the making of the human mind. He is Fellow of the British Academy, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and was the recipient of the Balzan Prize in 2004. Michael Boyd is a senior research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests lie in the prehistoric Aegean where he has worked in the Peloponnese and Cyclades. He is co-director of the Keros-Naxos Seaways project, and co-editor of the Keros publications series. He has co-written a book with John Barrett on identity in third-millennium Europe, has published a book on Mycenaean funerary practices, and has co-edited two collected volumes on funerary archaeology, and two volumes on Cycladic sculpture. He has worked widely in Greece, Bulgaria and Albania.

Reviews

All papers are well illustrated, and the commendable practice of showing all figurine illustrations at a common scale of 1:2 is continued from the previous volumes […] Ultimately, the material presented in this volume adds interestingly to the corpus of soundly documented items [...]
*Journal of Greek Archaeology*

Altogether the three conference volumes on early Cycladic sculpture 'in context' are of inestimable value […] For anyone interested in early Cycladic or Cycladic idol sculpture, the book is therefore indispensable.
*Gnomon*