Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 6 2021

Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 6: Editorial – John Bintliff ;



Method and Theory ;


Farming on the Fringe: Diachronic Changes in Land-Use Patterns and Agricultural Strategies in Ancient Nemea – Christian F. Cloke ;



Prehistoric and Protohistoric ;


The Thessalian Mesolithic: Evidence from Theopetra Cave – Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika ;


Middle Helladic Tombs at Nydri Plain, Lefkas Island. An Archaeological and Paleoanthropological Study – Vivian Staikou, Panagiotis D. Sianis, Despoina Vassou, Nikolaos Psonis, Morten E. Allentoft and George Iliopoulos ;


A New Minoan-Type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos? – Tristan Carter, Kristine Mallinson, Vagia Mastrogiannopoulou, Daniel A. Contreras, Charlotte Diffey, Claudette Lopez, Marie N. Pareja, Georgia Tsartsidou and Dimitris Athanasoulis ;


Langurs in the Aegean Bronze Age? A Review of a Recent Debate on Archaeoprimatology
and Animal Identification in Ancient Iconography – Julia Binnberg, Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos ;


Public vs Private: The Four Categories of Open-Air Spaces at the Late Minoan IIIC Middle Settlement at Monastiraki–Halasmenos (­Ierapetra, Crete) – David W. Rupp ;


Reinterpreting the Diachronic Variations in the Numbers of Burials Known from Early Iron Age Athens – Maximilian F. Rönnberg ;



Archaic to Hellenistic ;


Shedding Light on the Matter: Evaluating Changing Patterns of Object Dedication in Ionian Sanctuaries (7th/6th – 5th/4th centuries BC) with Lexicometrical Analysis – Michael Loy and Anja Slawisch ;


Continuity or Rupture? Further Thoughts on the ‘Classical Revolution’
(2500+ Years after Salamis) – Andrew Stewart ;


Sicilian Theatres with Paraskenia Scene Buildings: An Updated Framework for their Chronological Integration – Maria Panagiotonakou ;


Echoes of the Tragic in the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Salamis: A Geospatial Analysis
of Hero Cult – Michael Delacruz ;



Roman and Late Roman ;


Geographies, Institutions, and Agencies: Ceramic and Socio-Economic Regions and Regionality
in (Late) Hellenistic-Late Roman Boeotia, Central Greece (c. 150 BC-AD 700) – Dean Peeters ;


Port and Harbour Networks in Crete during Late Antiquity (4th – mid-7th c. AD): A Modern Approach – Konstantinos Roussos ;



Medieval and Post-Medieval ;


Church Construction as a Proxy for Economic Development: the Medieval Settlement
Expansion Phase in the Peloponnese – Maria Papadaki ;



BOOK REVIEWS [OPEN ACCESS] DOI: 10.32028/9781789698886-16 ;



Prehistory and Protohistory ;


Sarah C. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy. Imports, Trade and Institutions 1300–700 BCE / Chrysanthi Gallou, Death in Mycenaean Laconia. A Silent Place/James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney (with contributions by Phoebe Acheson, Susan F. Allen, Kathleen M. Forster, Paul Halstead, S.M.A. Hoffman, Anna Karabatsoli, Konstantina Kaza-Papageorgiou, Bartłomiej Lis, Rebecca Mersereau, Hans Mommsen, Jeremy B. Rutter, Tatiana Theodoropoulou, and Jonathan E. Tomlinson), The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project III) – Oliver Dickinson ;


Gioulika-Olga Christakopoulou, To Die in Style! The Residential Lifestyle of Feasting and Dying in Iron Age Stamna, Greece – John Bintliff ;



Archaic to Hellenistic ;


Oliver Hülden, Das griechische Befestigungswesen der archaïschen Zeit. Entwicklungen – Formen – Funktionen – Hans Lohmann ;


Peter van Alfen and Ute Wartenberg (eds) (with Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, Haim Gitler, Koray Konuk, and Catharine C. Lorber), White Gold: Studies in Early Electrum Coinage – Keith Rutter ;


Marta González González, Funerary Epigrams of Ancient Greece: Reflections on Literature, Society and Religion – Fabienne Marchand ;


Robert S. Wagman, The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine – Maria Mili ;


Natascha Sojc (ed.), Akragas. Current Issues in the Archaeology of a Sicilian Polis – Johannes Bergemann ;



Roman to Late Roman ;


Laura Pfuntner, Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily. – Michalis Karambinis ;


Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome. The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity – Bryan Ward-Perkins ;


Rinse Willet, The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor – Mark P.C. Jackson ;



Medieval to Postmedieval ;


Charalambos Bouras, Byzantine Athens, 10th-12th Centuries / Nickephoros I. Tsougarakis and Peter Lock (eds), A Companion to Latin Greece / Joanita Vroom (ed.), Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction. / Joanita Vroom, Yona Waksman and Roos van Oosten (eds), Medieval Masterchef. Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways – John Bintliff ;



Multiperiod ;


María-Paz de Hoz, Juan Luis García Alonso and Luis Arturo Guichard Romero (eds), Greek paideia and local tradition in the Graeco-Roman east – Dorothea Stavrou ;


John Ellis Jones and Ourania Kouka, Elis 1969. The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project: British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at Kostoureika and Keramidia 1969 / Effie Photos-Jones and Alan J Hall, Eros, mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos in antiquity: The archaeology of the minerals industry of Melos – John Bintliff ;


Bleda S. Düring and Claudia Glatz (eds), Kinetic Landscapes, the Cide Archaeological Project: Surveying the Turkish Western Black Sea Coast – James Crow ;


J. Rasmus Brandt, Erika Hagelberg, Gro Bjørnstad and Sven Ahrens (eds), Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology – Willem M. Jongman ;


Caroline Arnould-Béhar and Véronique Vassal (eds), Art et archéologie du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol.1 / Caroline Arnould-Béhar and Véronique Vassal (eds), Art et archéologie du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain. Les circulations artistiques entre Orient et Occident Vol. 2 – Andrew Erskine ;



Historiography and Theory ;


John Boardman, A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story So Far. An Autobiography – Robin Osborne