Aegean prehistory (Other Keyword)
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Twentieth century excavations contributed greatly to our knowledge of domestic contexts throughout the Aegean. These excavations occupy a broad spectrum in terms of sampling strategy, data collection quality and publication extent. Architectural studies of household behavior have received particular attention, and explorations of settlement social organization through household archaeology are ongoing. Yet few methodologies explicitly address this issue of diverse publication levels and...
Modeling small world networks in the Cyclades (Greece) (2016)
This paper explores how community interaction can be modeled on a local scale using the Early Bronze Age Cyclades (Greece) as a case study. Small worlds—the local, intensive networks of interaction among communities in the Aegean islands—sustained essential ties among small communities that had limited subsistence and few labor resources (Tartaron 2008: 109). By combining material evidence for exchange and ritual deposition, environmental data, and cost-surface analyses of travel time and...
Preparing the feast: understanding the nature of agricultural economy at Neolithic Makriyalos, northern Greece, using multiple isotopes (2016)
The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the agricultural management strategies employed by farmers at Neolithic Makriyalos, northern Greece. Building on results of previous archaeobotanical and archaeozoological analyses, it brings together the results of a series of stable isotope measurements to ask questions about the scale and intensity of farming at a Neolithic flat ‘extended’ site. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of charred plants will be used to infer crop-growing...
The Role of Intercommunity Feasting in the Development of Social and Economic Complexity at Early Bronze Age Mochlos (2016)
Feasting is a ritualistic social activity that also serves to strengthen the solidarity of a group or reinforce its hierarchical structure. Most frequently found as an intragroup activity, it also occurs at the intergroup level. In this paper, I discuss intercommunity feasting as a social, political, and economic motivator that generated interactions that flourished during the Protopalatial period. Several deposits from the Minoan site of Mochlos in Eastern Crete bridge the entire Prepalatial...