The seated dead: Evidence of funerary complexity from the early Late Bronze Age, 14th–12th centuries BCE in France

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 810-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Rottier
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Early Late

The Later Bronze Age in Ireland in the light of recent research

1964 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 268-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Eogan
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Early Late ◽  
The Bronze Age

The term ‘Later Bronze Age’ is being used in this paper to cover that period of the Bronze Age in Ireland that started around 1200 B.C. and continued on until supplanted by iron-using cultures during the second half of the first millennium B.C. This term provides a means of escaping from the nomenclature that is applied to the period covering the last two centuries of the second millennium B.C. and the beginning of the first millennium B.C., a phase considered by some as a late Middle Bronze Age and by others as an early Late Bronze Age. Here both terms are being avoided and the period is called the ‘Bishopsland Phase’. This is followed by the ‘Roscommon Phase’ of roughly the 9th and a large part of the 8th centuries B.C. Finally comes the ‘Dowris Phase’. It is hoped that this new terminology will allow the Irish material to be more readily incorporated in any future overall scheme for the Bronze Age in Great Britain and Ireland. The Middle Bronze Age in Ireland is here restricted to cover approximately the 14th and 13th centuries B.C.

scholarly journals Review and New Evidence on the Molluscan Purple Pigment Used in the Early Late Bronze Age Aegean Wall Paintings

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
Sophia Sotiropoulou ◽  
Ioannis Karapanagiotis ◽  
Konstantinos S. Andrikopoulos ◽  
Toula Marketou ◽  
Kiki Birtacha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Array Detector ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Purple Pigment ◽  
Textile Dyeing ◽  
Reported Data ◽  
Early Late

The production and use of the pigment extracted from the murex molluscs is discussed here in association with the purple textile dyeing industry in the Prehistoric Aegean. “True” purple has been identified in a number of archaeological finds dating from the early Late Bronze Age, found in old and recent excavations at three different but contemporary sites: Akrotiri and Raos on Thera, and Trianda on Rhodes. The chemical composition of the shellfish purple pigment either found in lump form or applied on wall paintings is discussed in relation to the archaeological context of several examined finds and with reference to Pliny’s purpurissum. The results of a comprehensive methodology combining new data obtained with molecular spectroscopies (microRaman and FTIR) and already reported data obtained with high performance liquid chromatography coupled with a diode array detector (HPLC–DAD) applied to samples of the murex purple finds are discussed in comparison to published data relating to few other instances of analytically proven murex purple pigment found in the Aegean over the timespan of its documented exploitation.

The Construction of the Aegisthus Tholos Tomb at Mycenae and the ‘Helladic Heresy’

2007 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Galanakis
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Epistemological Debate ◽  
Early Late ◽  
Shed Light

The article examines the importance of the Aegisthus tholos tomb in the formation of the tripartite chronological scheme of the Mycenae tholos tombs by A. J. B. Wace. The scheme is assessed in the light of the epistemological debate between Wace and Evans concerning the nature and extent of Minoan influence on mainland Greece in the early Late Bronze Age. It is here suggested that the two-phase construction identified by Wace in the Aegisthus tholos contributed significantly to the establishment of the structural development of the Mycenae tholoi, an important point against Evans's views on the subject. The two-phase construction is re-visited with a view to highlight its importance in Wace's scheme but more significantly to shed light on the planning and execution of the Aegisthus tomb. While the two-phase construction cannot altogether be dismissed, it is suggested that the ashlar façade of the Aegisthus tomb was not an afterthought, as is largely maintained, but a preplanned action and part of the tomb's original design.

Dining on the Fringe? A Possible Minoan- Style Banquet Hall at Ayia Irini, Kea and the Minoanization of the Aegean Islands

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney D. Fitzsimons ◽  
Evi Gorogianni
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
Aegean Islands ◽  
Single Structure ◽  
Non Local ◽  
The University ◽  
Administrative Evidence ◽  
Early Late ◽  
Key Nodes

Since its excavation by John Caskey and the University of Cincinnati from 1960 to 1976, Ayia Irini has served as one of the principal catalysts for investigations into the spread of Minoan culture throughout the Aegean in the later Middle and early Late Bronze Age (Fig. 14.1). Indeed, the abundance, concentration, and range of ceramic, architectural, iconographic, technological, and administrative evidence at the site that was inspired by, adapted, and/or adopted from the Cretan cultural package suggests that it functioned as one of the key nodes in the complex web of exchange networks that facilitated the dissemination of non-local traits across the region throughout this period (Abell 2014; Berg 2006, 2007; Davis 1979; Davis and Gorogianni 2008; Dietz 1998; Graziadio 1998; Knappett and Nikolakopoulou 2005; Knappett, Evans, and Rivers 2008; Knappett 2011; Nikolakopoulou 2007; Papagiannopoulou 1991; Schofield 1982a, 1982b, 1983, 1984a). Despite the quantity, quality, and variety of such evidence at Ayia Irini, however, only a single structure in the settlement, House A, has been hitherto recognized as betraying any indication of Minoan architectural influence (e.g. Berg 2007: 114; Cummer 1980; Cummer and Schofield 1984; Hitchcock 1998: 173; Letesson 2009: 298–303; Whitelaw 2005: 56). Currently located in the south-east quadrant of the site, though originally probably closer to its centre if changes in sea level are taken into account (Caskey 1962: 266, 278; 1964: 321; 1966: 365; 1971: 362), House A underwent a series of remodellings over the course of the Late Minoan IA through LM II periods (Cummer and Schofield 1984: 30–5; or Periods VI and VII in Caskey’s local pottery terminology), the end result of which produced an interesting blend of local and Minoanizing features.

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