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Quantifying Spatial Similarity Patterns in Material Culture: The Baden Complex in a Polythetic culture modelby Martin Furholt(26 September 2009)The study of similarities and dissimilarities in material culture is the essential basis upon which the Culture-Historical approach to archaeology rests. In Central and Eastern European Archaeology concepts derived from this tradition are still very dominant, while it has been largely abandoned in Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Yet alternatives for the study of the spatial stylistic variation in material culture have not been properly developed, despite the promising start made by D. L. Clarke in his work “Analytical Archaeology”. In consequence, we still have to live with spatial archaeological units of classification – our traditional “Archaeological Cultures”, which are poorly defined and heavily biased by outdated concepts about ethnicity. Discuss this article (0 posts to date) |
Seaborne Contacts between the Aegean, the Balkans and the Central Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC – The Unfolding of the Mediterranean Worldby Joseph Maran(21 May 2008)In the last decades the research interest in the study of pre-Mycenaean contacts of the Aegean region with the geographical zones to the north and west has considerably diminished. While until the early 1970ies there was still much debate going on about aspects like the northern links of cord-decorated pottery or of the origin of the tumuli in Greece, already ten years later such subjects and the whole problem of possible Balkan connections of the earlier parts of the Aegean Bronze Age had almost disappeared as research topics of Aegean Archaeology. The question arises why this was the case. Discuss this article (0 posts to date) |
The Northern Frontier of the Mycenaean World*by Birgitta Eder(3 April 2008)The search for the northern frontier of the Mycenaean world has a long history in Mycenaean studies. The starting point for my present investigation was offered by my study of Mycenaean seals and sealings. Seals made of various materials come from all over of Mycenaean Greece. Apart from the core areas of the Argolid, Messenia and Boeotia they have been found also in the area of western, central and northern Greece up to the mountain Olympos. These include golden signet rings with figural illustrations and hard stone seals which were made of semi-precious stones; glass was either engraved or pressed in moulds to produce seals, and finally seals were made of less valuable materials such as soft stones like steatite. Material, style and shapes link all those different categories of seals from all parts of the Greek mainland. Discuss this article (0 posts to date) |
When the West Meets the East.
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