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The Archaeological Site of Kleidi-Samikon: An Early Mycenaean Settlement in Northern Triphylia Reconsidered. Veröffentlichung der Mykenischen Kommission|(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece Mykenische Studien 35|
No full textThe archaeological site of ‘Kleidi’ (meaning ‘key’) at Samikon is located between the sandy beach of theIonian Sea on the Gulf of Kyparissia and the Mount of Lapithos, essentially monitoring the route overland from thenorthwest to the southwest Peloponnese. Its strategic location has attracted the intensive habitation of the site from theMiddle Bronze Age up to the years of Ottoman domination. The Hellenistic fortification of the acropolis of Samikon,just opposite the prehistoric burial and residential contexts, described by Strabo and Pausanias, testifies once again tothe importance of this specific area. The present contribution attempts to reconsider the outcome of the old and recentexcavations in the area. The first archaeological investigations were carried out by Wilhelm Dörpfeld in the early 20thcentury, and the authors of this article conducted the latest excavations at the beginning of the 21st century. Althoughthe project for the overall publication of the findings is still at an early stage, our contribution intends to examine therole and the ‘status’ of Samikon within the so-called Mycenaean world and the kingdom of Pylos. Moreover, we wouldlike to clarify the relations and the connections with other adjacent archaeological sites, such as Kakovatos, Epitalionand Makrysia. The discussion of the historical topography, the burial and domestic architecture, the burial customs andthe presentation of new finds, will help to create a clearer picture of the habitation of the site
Mycenaean Messenia in the Making: The Evidence from the Tholos Tombs. Veröffentlichung der Mykenischen Kommission|(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece Mykenische Studien 35|
No full textThe analysis of Middle and Late Bronze Age tombs provides important insights into the emergence of theMycenaean society and its later developments. The southwestern Peloponnese (Messenia and Triphylia) in particular,with its rich mortuary landscape, is suitable for studying the changes which occurred not only at the transition from theMiddle to the Late Bronze Age but also during the Mycenaean period. The purpose of this paper is to highlight thesechanges through the architecture of the tholos tombs as well as the burial gifts
Geographical Index. Veröffentlichung der Mykenischen Kommission|(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece Mykenische Studien 35|
No full textOf Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Regions: Regional Space in the Middle and Early Late Bronze Age Ionian Islands. Veröffentlichung der Mykenischen Kommission|(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece Mykenische Studien 35|
No full textRecent landscape archaeological research on the island of Zakynthos has resulted in the identification of anumber of sites with pottery from the Middle Helladic and the early Mycenaean periods. In this article we will lookat these archaeological materials and at the geographical location of the sites. Zakynthos will then be compared withother parts of western Greece and beyond, in order to identify similarities and differences in material strategies in thelandscape. The analysis will result in a discussion on the intensity of interactions in regions of different scale, in whichZakynthos participated
LAKONIA AND KYTHERA Space, Place and Social Structure in the North Cemetery, Ayios Vasileios. Veröffentlichung der Mykenischen Kommission|(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece Mykenische Studien 35|
No full textIn this paper we would like to present some first observations on changing perceptions of space and shiftingsocial relations in the site of Ayios Vasileios, Lakonia, based on the excavation and study of the early Mycenaeanextramural cemetery of the site, the North Cemetery. Our aim is to investigate how space is harnessed in the creationof new cosmological and social divisions.1. Space and Place: We will examine the location of the (extramural) cemetery in relation to the contemporary settlementand the local topography. We will attempt to understand how place is imbued with meaning by examining theprevious use of the cemetery area, the spatial organisation of the cemetery (location and orientation of graves), as wellas any evidence for human intervention and modifications of the cemetery area (removal and heaping of soil, use ofnatural gravel layers, construction of a platform, construction of retaining [?] walls).2. Social structure: On the basis of a close contextual analysis of the mortuary practices (variation in grave type, constructionand design, treatment of the body and accompanying ritual, offerings) we will reconstruct the changing socialrelations, and in particular differentiation by age, gender, kinship and status.Our observations on the North Cemetery will be placed in the context of the wider transformation of the mortuarypractices at the very beginning of the Mycenaean period, i.e. the introduction of formal cemeteries and new tomb types,the practice of reuse and secondary treatment, and the deposition of wealth. At the same time we will examine regionalparticularities and local responses
An Explosion of Polychromy: Establishing Localised Ceramic Identities at the Dawn of the Mycenaean Era. Veröffentlichung der Mykenischen Kommission|(Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece Mykenische Studien 35|
No full textNear or at the end of the MH era, a wave of polychromy swept over the ceramic repertoires of the centraland southern Greek mainland. Beginning at the start of the period we term LH I (c. 1675–1600 BC) or just beforeand persisting for some four to five generations thereafter down to some point within the LH IIA phase (c. 1600–1550/1525 BC), this predilection for bichrome and trichrome approaches to the decoration of tablewares was a featureof several different regions within the first half of the Prepalatial Mycenaean era. What inspired this sudden popularisationof the use of multiple colours for ceramic ornamentation? As striking as its relatively sudden emergence is theseeming contemporaneity of its disappearance from the various regional styles within which it had flourished. Was thevirtual extinction of polychromy around the middle of the 16th century somehow related to the circumstances of itsrapid adoption a century of more earlier? How this decorative fashion was exploited by its numerous producers mayprovide some answers to the questions surrounding the peculiar history of this characteristically early Mycenaean modeof pottery décor
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No full textJacques (eig. Jakub Dawid; Jakob David, Jacob): * 8.5.1851 (1857?) Tarnow/Galizien (Tarnów/PL), † 11.9.1925 Wien. Geiger, Komponist, Musikpädagoge
