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Latest news & updates about Minoan art & archaeology

8 (July 2015)

Phaistos ( Minoan News)

New series
o Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici (SMEA), forthcoming in September
http://smea.isma.cnr.it/

New papers available online

o Of What is Past, Passing or to Come: five thousand years of social,
technological and environmental transformations at Priniatikos Pyrgos B.P.C.
Molloy et al. (2014)
https://www.academia.edu/14526066/Of_What_is_Past_Passing_or_to_Come_five_thousand_years_of_soci
al_technological_and_environmental_transformations_at_Priniatikos_Pyrgos

o Excavations in the Pi Area at Malia (2005-2010) T. Gomre, C. Langohr &

M. Pomadre (2012)
https://www.academia.edu/4167713/Excavations_in_the_Pi_Area_at_Malia_2005-2010_

o Le Quartier Nu (Malia, Crte). L'occupation nopalatiale M. Devolder (2013)

https://www.academia.edu/7741460/Le_Quartier_Nu_Malia_Cr%C3%A8te_._Loccupation_n%C3%A9opalatiale_Bulletin_
de_Correspondance_Hell%C3%A9nique_136-137.1_2012-2013_p._1-82

o Manpower and Neopalatial Architecture: The Architectural Project as a

Meaningful Experience M. Devolder (2015)
https://www.academia.edu/1117955/Manpower_and_Neopalatial_Architecture._The_Architectural_Project_as_a_Meaningful_Experience._
In_S._Cappel_U._G%C3%BCnkelMaschek_and_D._Panagiotopoulos_Minoan_Archaeology._Perspectives_for_the_21st_Century_AEGIS_8_Louvain-la-Neuve_2015_p._241252

o Colonial Cups? The Minoan Plain Handleless Cup as Icon and Index
C. Knappett & J. Hilditch (2015)
https://www.academia.edu/14001056/Knappett_C._and_J._Hilditch._2015._Colonial_Cups_The_Minoan_Plain_Handleless
_Cup_as_Icon_and_Index._In_C._Glatz_ed._Plain_Pottery_Traditions_of_the_Eastern_Mediterranean_and_Near_East_Prod
uction_Use_and_Social_Significance_pp._91-113._Walnut_Creek_CA_Left_Coast_Press

o A Touch of Luxury from the Western Fringe of the Ancient World: The Aegean
Impact on the Qatna Wall Paintings C. von Rden (2015)
https://www.academia.edu/14143381/A_Touch_of_Luxury_from_the_Western_Fringe_of_the_Ancient_World_The_Aegean_Impact_on_the
_Qatna_Wall_Paintings_in_Peter_Pf%C3%A4lzner_Michel_AlMaqdissi_eds_Qatna_and_the_Networks_of_Bronze_Age_Globalism_Wiesbaden_2015_249-264

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o Transmediterranean Knowledge and Minoan Style Reliefs in Tell el-Dab'a: An

Attempt at Paradigm Shift C. Von Rden (2015)
https://www.academia.edu/13765826/Transmediterranean_Knowledge_and_Minoan_Style_Reliefs_in_Tell_elDaba_An_Attempt_at_Paradigm_Shift_in_S._Cappel_U._G%C3%BCnkelMaschek_Diamantis_Panagiotopoulos_eds._Minoan_Archaeology._Perspectives_for_the_21st_Century_Louvain_2015_35
5-366

o Chryssi Island: New evidence on the Bronze Age settlement patterns of the
Ierapetra Area K. Chalikias (2015)
https://www.academia.edu/13710902/_Chryssi_Island_New_evidence_on_the_Bronze_Age_settlement_patterns_of_the_Ierapetra_Area_in
_S._Cappel_U._G%C3%BCnkelMaschek_and_D._Panagiotopoulos_eds_Minoan_Archaeology_Perspectives_of_the_21st_Century_Louvain_2015_pp._37-51

o A Portable Goddess. On Performative and Experiental Aspects of Figures and

Figurines K. Zeman-Winiewska (2015)
https://www.academia.edu/13702384/K._ZemanWi%C5%9Bniewska_2015._A_Portable_Goddess._On_Performative_and_Experiental_Aspects_of_Figures_and_Figurines_in_S._Cappel_U._G%C3%BCnkelMaschek_and_D._Panagiotopoulos_eds._Minoan_Archaeology_Perspectives_for_the_21st_Century_Louvain_Presses_universitaires_de_Louvain

o The Body Brand and Minoan Zonation A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw (2015)

https://www.academia.edu/680614/SimandirakiGrimshaw_A._2015_The_Body_Brand_and_Minoan_Zonation_Cappel_S._G%C3%BCnkelMaschek_U._Panagiotopoulos_D._eds._Minoan_Archaeology_Perspectives_for_the_21st_Century_UCL_Presses_universit
aires_de_Louvain_267_28

o Minoan Archaeology: the pretence of being through perception, retention and

recollection I. Mathioudaki (2015)
https://www.academia.edu/6862233/Minoan_Archaeology_the_pretence_of_being_through_perception_r
etention_and_recollection

o Problems of Roofing of Early Minoan Tholos Tombs: The Case of Kamilari A

Tholos Tomb in the Western Mesara Plain L. Girella (2013)
https://www.academia.edu/13607638/PROBLEMS_OF_ROOFING_OF_EARLY_MINOAN_THOLOS_TOMBS_T
HE_CASE_OF_KAMILARI_A_THOLOS_TOMB_IN_THE_WESTERN_MESARA_PLAIN

July lectures, workshops

o Pacheia Ammos, July 18: Archaeological Work at Gournia, 2008-2014
L.V. Watrous
http://www.instapstudycenter.net/lecture-series/index.html

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o Thera, July 12: Akrotiri, Santorini. Thera and the East Mediterranean
N. Marinatos
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Akrotiri-and-Knossos-Unesco-World-Heritage-SitesNOW/481222851902694?fref=nf

o Heraklion, July 11: From the hills of Pediada to the peaks of Psiloritis: rescue
excavations in Minoan hypaethral sanctuaries of Central Crete (abstract in
English) G. Rethemiotakis
http://www.minoanseminar.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=3&lang=en

o Cargse (France), July 1: Looking for the invisible: transformation in the

landscape and the ceramics manufacturing in the Final Neolithic-Early Bronze
Age at Phaistos, Crete R. Mentesena et al. / The influence of landforms and
geodiversity in the settlement patterns of Bronze Age Crete N. Argyriou et al.
http://geomedislands.org/data/Geomedislands_programme.pdf

Forthcoming lectures, workshops

o Pacheia Ammos, August 8: Zakros VI: The Reoccupation of the Minoan
Settlement of Kato Zakros after the Destruction at the end of the Late Minoan
IB Period M. Zoitopoulos
http://www.instapstudycenter.net/lecture-series/index.html

o Pacheia Ammos, August 1: Building Beta at Akrotiri, Thera F. Georma,

I. Nikolakopoulou, I. Bitis
http://www.instapstudycenter.net/lecture-series/index.html

Book reviews
o B. Leslie Preston & K.T. Glowacki, "Kavousi IIB: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement
at Vronda: The Buildings on the Periphery" F. Gaignerot-Driessen
http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/2171

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Call for papers

o GAO Conference 2016: Human-nature interactions in archaeological research,
Oxford, 12th-13th March 2016 |Deadline: Nov. 27|
http://bo-history.edu.uoc.gr/files/items/2/2577/gao_conference_2016,_cfp.pdf

o SOMA 2015, Kemer/Antalya (Turkey), November 12-14 |Deadline: Sept. 15|

http://www.phaselis.org/soma2015

Elsewhere on the web

o
http://www.anatolh.com/lasithi-news/agios-nikolaos/item/105042-%CF%83%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%82%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%88%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CF%87%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%83%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%B9

o Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro on Twitter

https://twitter.com/PALAPproject

o |Ongoing excavation| Petras news

https://www.facebook.com/Petras.excavations/posts/1759504920942988

o Il y a 3500 ans en Crte, une invention provoque lexode dune civilisation

http://archeo.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/07/18/il-y-a-3500-ans-en-crete-une-invention-provoque-lexodedune-civilisation/

o |Ongoing excavation| Breaking news from Petras

https://www.facebook.com/Petras.excavations/photos/a.1562344033992412.1073741828.1558692001024
282/1757473061146174/?type=1&theater

o |Ongoing excavation| Another starting day: Palaikastro 2015

https://www.facebook.com/Palaikastro/photsos/a.204400266404348.1073741830.189464904564551/464
141223763583/?type=1&theater

o |Ongoing excavation| Petras: first day of excavation

https://www.facebook.com/Petras.excavations/photos/pcb.1756740111219469/1756739167886230/?type
=1&theater

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o |Report| "Aegean Bronze Age Textile Production Techniques - Spinning and

Weaving" Workshop in Warsaw, 15-19 June 2015 A. Ulanowska
https://www.academia.edu/13430688/_Aegean_Bronze_Age_Textile_Production_Techniques__Spinning_and_Weaving_2nd_Experimental_Archaeology_Workshop_in_Warsaw_1519_June_2015_short_report

o Minoan News 7 (June 2015)

https://www.academia.edu/13448501/Minoan_News_7_June_2015_

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