{"title":"Abigail Baker. Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann's First Exhibition (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, viii+ 280pp., 40 b/w figs, pbk, ISBN 9781350191365)","authors":"J. Fitton","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41628018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
tions, and the ways in which the two in fact overlap. The British Museum exhibition followed the pattern, not least because, although we curators were looking for something new, a public focus-group was invited to consider a range of proposed titles and came down strongly in favour of including ‘myth and reality’ in the exhibition’s name. It seems these concepts are so innately enmeshed within reception of both the story and the archaeology of Troy that no other outcome was possible. Baker’s excellent book demonstrates why this is still the case, as it has been since Schliemann’s exhibition in 1877. Visitors search for the historicity of the Trojan War in the archaeological remains, but at the same time have a continuing fascination with the myths of Troy, and the human truths that they reveal. REFERENCES
{"title":"Stephanie Moser. Painting Antiquity: Ancient Egypt in the Art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edward Poynter, and Edwin Long (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, xxv and 596 pp., numerous illustrations in b/w and colour, ISBN 9780190697020)","authors":"H. Navrátilová","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"tions, and the ways in which the two in fact overlap. The British Museum exhibition followed the pattern, not least because, although we curators were looking for something new, a public focus-group was invited to consider a range of proposed titles and came down strongly in favour of including ‘myth and reality’ in the exhibition’s name. It seems these concepts are so innately enmeshed within reception of both the story and the archaeology of Troy that no other outcome was possible. Baker’s excellent book demonstrates why this is still the case, as it has been since Schliemann’s exhibition in 1877. Visitors search for the historicity of the Trojan War in the archaeological remains, but at the same time have a continuing fascination with the myths of Troy, and the human truths that they reveal. REFERENCES","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49258385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
plied here is detailed and international. One could ask where were contemporary Egyptian artists, but that would be an anachronistic question, because the reception of ancient Egypt in visual arts of modern Egypt comes mostly later, with the twentieth century ‘pharaonism’ reflected both in literature and in visual arts. Some information is recontextualised repeatedly throughout the volume: the intense ‘display’ culture of the late nineteenth century that focussed interest on visual presentation, the national(ist) agendas, the circulation of and access to the artefacts. However, that is to an advantage. The book can be read cover to cover, but thanks to its structure, it also allows for a reader’s choice of ‘dipping’, for example into the work of a particular author or a specific period of art production. Painting Antiquity is setting a new standard in the level of detail and insight; both in description of the sources and in their analysis. Most of all, it achieves its aim to marry historical analysis with the experience of art. The art that was and is to be enjoyed and understood with sensitivity to its historical context.
{"title":"Mili Rajic and Dave Howarth. Hollis Croft: A Matter of Time (Milton Keynes: Wessex Archaeology/ Internet Archaeology, 2021, 82pp. 70 illustr. in colour, pbk, ISBN 9781911137214, https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/4/comic.html)","authors":"K. Fennelly","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"plied here is detailed and international. One could ask where were contemporary Egyptian artists, but that would be an anachronistic question, because the reception of ancient Egypt in visual arts of modern Egypt comes mostly later, with the twentieth century ‘pharaonism’ reflected both in literature and in visual arts. Some information is recontextualised repeatedly throughout the volume: the intense ‘display’ culture of the late nineteenth century that focussed interest on visual presentation, the national(ist) agendas, the circulation of and access to the artefacts. However, that is to an advantage. The book can be read cover to cover, but thanks to its structure, it also allows for a reader’s choice of ‘dipping’, for example into the work of a particular author or a specific period of art production. Painting Antiquity is setting a new standard in the level of detail and insight; both in description of the sources and in their analysis. Most of all, it achieves its aim to marry historical analysis with the experience of art. The art that was and is to be enjoyed and understood with sensitivity to its historical context.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42520059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Pessina and Nicholas C. Vella, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica I: i templi neolitici di Tarscien. The Tarxien Neolithic Temples (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 531pp., 395 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-397-4) - Andrea Pessina, Nicholas C. Vella and Anton Bugeja, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica II: i maggiori templi neolitici e l'ipogeo. The Major Neolithic Temples and the Hypogeum (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 271pp., 233 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-398-1) - Andrea Pessina, Nicholas C. Vella and Anton Bugeja, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica III: templi neolitici minori e monumenti megalitici. Minor Neolithic Temples and Megalithic Monuments (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 156pp., 111 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-399-8) - Andrea Pessina and Nicolas C. Vella. Malta and Mediterranean Prehistory: Luigi Maria Ugolini, Politics, and Archaeology between the Two World Wars (Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 508pp., 238 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-758-3) - Volume 26 Issue 2
安德里亚·皮西纳和尼古拉斯·C·维拉，艾德。路易吉·乌戈利尼的古马耳他I:塔辛的新古典寺庙。中海图书有限公司，2021,531pp。， 395 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-397-4) - Andrea Pessina, Nicholas C.维拉和Anton Bugeja, eds。路易吉·乌戈利尼的马耳他古二:最大的新古典寺庙和低地。主要的新天气和Hypogeum(瓦莱塔:Midsea Books Ltd .， 2021, 271页)。， 233 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-398-1) - Andrea Pessina, Nicholas C.维拉和Anton Bugeja, eds。路易吉·乌戈利尼的马耳他古三:小型新古典寺庙和巨石纪念碑。(瓦莱塔:Midsea Books Ltd .， 2021, 156页)。- Andrea Pessina和Nicolas C.维拉。马耳他和地中海历史前:路易吉·玛丽亚·乌戈里尼，《两个世界大战之间的政治与历史》(中东图书有限公司，2021,508页)。， 238 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-758-3) -第26卷Issue 2
{"title":"Andrea Pessina and Nicholas C. Vella, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica I: i templi neolitici di Tarscien. The Tarxien Neolithic Temples (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 531pp., 395 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-397-4) - Andrea Pessina, Nicholas C. Vella and Anton Bugeja, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica II: i maggiori templi neolitici e l'ipogeo. The Major Neolithic Temples and the Hypogeum (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 271pp., 233 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-398-1) - Andrea Pessina, …","authors":"Robin Skeates","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"Andrea Pessina and Nicholas C. Vella, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica I: i templi neolitici di Tarscien. The Tarxien Neolithic Temples (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 531pp., 395 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-397-4) - Andrea Pessina, Nicholas C. Vella and Anton Bugeja, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica II: i maggiori templi neolitici e l'ipogeo. The Major Neolithic Temples and the Hypogeum (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 271pp., 233 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-398-1) - Andrea Pessina, Nicholas C. Vella and Anton Bugeja, eds. Luigi Ugolini's Malta Antica III: templi neolitici minori e monumenti megalitici. Minor Neolithic Temples and Megalithic Monuments (Valletta: Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 156pp., 111 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-399-8) - Andrea Pessina and Nicolas C. Vella. Malta and Mediterranean Prehistory: Luigi Maria Ugolini, Politics, and Archaeology between the Two World Wars (Midsea Books Ltd, 2021, 508pp., 238 figs, hbk, ISBN 978-99932-7-758-3) - Volume 26 Issue 2","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135240167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EAA volume 26 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49441352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The earliest Bronze Age Mediterranean primate representations on frescoes are found at the Aegean sites of Knossos (Crete) and Akrotiri (Thera). By contrast, monkeys have so far been missing from Mycenaean frescoes in mainland Greece. A fresco fragment of a cultic scene from Tiryns changes this; it depicts a bipedal partial lower body, with a hanging tail. This image, previously interpreted as a human wearing an animal hide, had already been suggested to represent a monkey. A re-examination of this miniature fresco identified various features that seem to confirm the representation of a monkey, most probably of a baboon-like primate. Assuming that the fresco from Tiryns is part of a cult scene, similar to those from Akrotiri, this adds a further image to a small corpus of Aegean depictions connecting monkeys with important female figures or deities. Furthermore, the Tiryns fresco fragment indicates that primates were not entirely absent from local Mycenaean iconography.
{"title":"A Primate on a Fresco from the Mycenaean Acropolis of Tiryns","authors":"D. Youlatos, B. Urbani, Julia Binnberg","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"The earliest Bronze Age Mediterranean primate representations on frescoes are found at the Aegean sites of Knossos (Crete) and Akrotiri (Thera). By contrast, monkeys have so far been missing from Mycenaean frescoes in mainland Greece. A fresco fragment of a cultic scene from Tiryns changes this; it depicts a bipedal partial lower body, with a hanging tail. This image, previously interpreted as a human wearing an animal hide, had already been suggested to represent a monkey. A re-examination of this miniature fresco identified various features that seem to confirm the representation of a monkey, most probably of a baboon-like primate. Assuming that the fresco from Tiryns is part of a cult scene, similar to those from Akrotiri, this adds a further image to a small corpus of Aegean depictions connecting monkeys with important female figures or deities. Furthermore, the Tiryns fresco fragment indicates that primates were not entirely absent from local Mycenaean iconography.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47374978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agricultural practices are key for understanding socio-economic change, community organization, and relationships with landscape and the environment. Under the Roman Empire, cereals were vital for supplying urban and military populations, yet cereal husbandry practices within villa landscapes remain underexplored. In this article, the author applies new methods to analyse a large assemblage of charred plant remains from an area of chalk downland in central-southern England in order to evaluate changes in cereal production strategies over the Middle Iron Age to late Roman periods. Archaeobotany, carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis, and functional weed ecology are combined to reconstruct crop husbandry practices, in order to establish the cereal production system of Roman villas and the preceding Iron Age settlements, and to consider the environmental and socio-economic impact of cereal production systems.
{"title":"Cultivating Villa Economies: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Evidence for Iron Age to Roman Agricultural Practices on the Chalk Downlands of Southern Britain","authors":"L. Lodwick","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.47","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural practices are key for understanding socio-economic change, community organization, and relationships with landscape and the environment. Under the Roman Empire, cereals were vital for supplying urban and military populations, yet cereal husbandry practices within villa landscapes remain underexplored. In this article, the author applies new methods to analyse a large assemblage of charred plant remains from an area of chalk downland in central-southern England in order to evaluate changes in cereal production strategies over the Middle Iron Age to late Roman periods. Archaeobotany, carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis, and functional weed ecology are combined to reconstruct crop husbandry practices, in order to establish the cereal production system of Roman villas and the preceding Iron Age settlements, and to consider the environmental and socio-economic impact of cereal production systems.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48558921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wealth differentials in archaeological sites are a frequently studied topic, but social differentiation approaches are rarely applied to different contexts within a wider territory, especially in Portugal. In this article, the authors discuss the differences in wealth and inequality through the consumption of tablewares from fifteen sites across Portugal dated from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries ad. The archaeological evidence derives from two types of contexts: secular (houses and dumps) and religious (female and male religious institutions). Using a statistical similarity method to compare different consumption patterns in each context, the authors discuss how this can help us understand wealth differences in distinct social environments.
{"title":"Wealth in Religious and Secular Contexts: A Critical Analysis of Pottery Consumption in early modern Portugal","authors":"Joel Santos, I. Castro, T. Casimiro","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2023.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.2","url":null,"abstract":"Wealth differentials in archaeological sites are a frequently studied topic, but social differentiation approaches are rarely applied to different contexts within a wider territory, especially in Portugal. In this article, the authors discuss the differences in wealth and inequality through the consumption of tablewares from fifteen sites across Portugal dated from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries ad. The archaeological evidence derives from two types of contexts: secular (houses and dumps) and religious (female and male religious institutions). Using a statistical similarity method to compare different consumption patterns in each context, the authors discuss how this can help us understand wealth differences in distinct social environments.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44516328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study of stonemasons’ marks in ancient constructions, a subject that has been systematically investigated since the 1980s to the present, tends to focus on a few standard uses and consider other seemingly random patterns as issues of preservation, leaving the archaeological potential of such marks largely untapped. This article presents a methodological approach to explain these apparently arbitrary patterns and a diachronic analysis of local labour organization at Sagalassos in south-western Turkey in four case studies: the Upper Agora, Lower Agora, Hadrianic Nymphaeum, and Makellon. The spatial analysis of the stonemasons’ marks and examination of the stone carving techniques and epigraphic data suggest that the different marks were either produced by the same individuals and/or formed part of the same construction process.
{"title":"How Marks Pave(d) the Way: Stonemasons’ Marks and Stone Carving Techniques in Roman Sagalassos (South-Western Asia Minor)","authors":"B. Beaujean, Frans Doperé","doi":"10.1017/eaa.2022.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2022.54","url":null,"abstract":"The study of stonemasons’ marks in ancient constructions, a subject that has been systematically investigated since the 1980s to the present, tends to focus on a few standard uses and consider other seemingly random patterns as issues of preservation, leaving the archaeological potential of such marks largely untapped. This article presents a methodological approach to explain these apparently arbitrary patterns and a diachronic analysis of local labour organization at Sagalassos in south-western Turkey in four case studies: the Upper Agora, Lower Agora, Hadrianic Nymphaeum, and Makellon. The spatial analysis of the stonemasons’ marks and examination of the stone carving techniques and epigraphic data suggest that the different marks were either produced by the same individuals and/or formed part of the same construction process.","PeriodicalId":46261,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47234465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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