The magazines of Delos: a critical reassessment

This study reassesses the evidence for the commercial function of the so-called magazines located on the west coast of Delos (Magasins alpha-gamma, the Magasins Ardaillon, Magasin delta, and the Magasin des Colonnes), dating to the Athenian colony period when Delos functioned as a free port (167-69 BCE). The magazines have never been fully published and their role in the economic life of the island during this period is not fully understood. In order to better understand their specific function, it is therefore necessary to reassess the current state of research on the magazines and to contextualize them in the corpus of Mediterranean commercial architecture. In order to do this, the accessibility, patronage, and typology of the magazines are considered, as well as four comparanda. Through this process, it is possible to identify new avenues for further research on the Delian magazines

Protogeometric and Geometric Crete

The Protogeometric period on Crete, generally the 10th and 9th centuries BCE, was characterized by a change in settlement patterns from small settlement clusters in Late Minoan IIIC to larger culture-regions defined by centralized and nucleated settlements linked to increasingly defined territories. Understanding the meaning of these changes in spatial structures and social organization, and their impact on later settlement patterns of the Cretan Early Iron Age requires a finer analytical scale and narrower temporal framework. It is, however, a necessary part of moving away from reductive historicizing narratives of palatial collapse or polis development prevalent in scholarship on Early Iron Age settlement development. Instead, reconstructing the material ways in which culture-regions were defined over the course of the Protogeometric period and beyond allows us to consider new approaches for tracking the early development of polities normally predicated on historical paradigms. This project gathers the published evidence for the Cretan Protogeometric period in order to develop new models for visualizing ways in which deliberately-constructed relationships between communities in shifting settlement systems acted as mechanisms for the definition of culture-regions. The “adherent model” suggests that communities that closely adhered to Late Minoan IIIC settlements and cemeteries through the re-use of older habitation sites for ritualized activities, such as burial or feasting, remained highly localized and organized according to close kinship ties for much of the Early Iron Age. In contrast, the “nucleated model” predicts a system in which communities abandoned Late Minoan IIIC sites over the course of the Protogeometric period and developed larger corporate groups at an earlier date. These models ascribe different relative rates of social cohesion to different spatial patterns at the regional and site levels. The usefulness of the adherent model for visualizing the spatial and cultural dimension of social change within communities over the course of the Early Iron Age is further explored through a series of case studies that examine differential patterns of mobility in habitation and ritual spaces. Case studies from the Kavousi region and Knossos underpin major parts of the discussion of these archaeologically visible patterns and their intersections with historical narratives.Doctor of Philosoph

Prospection de l’Anavlochos II

Données scientifiques produites : Carnet hypothèses Anavlochos ProjectGroupe Facebook ANAVLOCHOS PROJECTCompte Twitter Anavlochos @cretansite Chroniques de l’EfA : Anavlochos – 2016 La seconde campagne de prospection du massif de l’Anavlochos (Lasithi, Crète), programmée sur deux ans (2015-2016), a eu lieu du 25 juillet au 3 septembre 2016. Le travail de terrain s’est déroulé pendant les quatre premières semaines de la campagne, les deux dernières ayant été consacrées au lavage, au conditionn..

Fouilles de l’Anavlochos I

Données scientifiques produites :Carnet hypothèses Anavlochos ProjectGroupe Facebook ANAVLOCHOS PROJECTCompte Twitter Anavlochos @cretansite  Chroniques de l’EfA : https://chronique.efa.gr/?kroute=report&id=6890 À la suite de la prospection de l’ensemble du massif, conduite en 2015-2016, et dans le cadre du programme quinquennal (2017-2021) de l’EFA, des fouilles ont été entreprises sur l’Anavlochos du 24 juillet au 18 août 2017. Lors de cette première campagne, les recherches ont été engagée..

Fouilles de l’Anavlochos II

La nécropole de Lami Les tumuli La nécropole de Lami s’étend sur une douzaine d’hectares en contrebas de l’agglomération urbaine qui occupe la partie haute du vallon central de l’Anavlochos (fig. 1). On y a poursuivi la fouille engagée en 2017 dans l’Agrégat (AG) 47.04. Un tumulus de pierre de près de 15 m de diamètre a ainsi été mis au jour autour des trois fosses (FE 2, FE 3, FE 4) découvertes en 2017 (fig. 2-3). Ce tumulus est délimité par un péribole circulaire (FE 5), que soutient une as..

Fouilles de l'Anavlochos I

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Prospection de l’Anavlochos II

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Prospection de l'Anavlochos II

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The Early Iron Age tumular necropolis at Anavlochos, Crete

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The tumular necropolis of Anavlochos: New interdisciplinary research on cremation in Early Iron Age Crete

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