Table of Contents

Introduction (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)

About the Author

John Bennet is the Director of the British School at Athens, and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.