John Bennet

This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’. Each was designed to capture current developments in these interrelated research areas and also to help elide boundaries between ‘science-based’ and ‘humanities-based’ approaches, and between those focused on written communication (especially its content) and those interested in broader modes of communication. Contributions are arranged thematically in three groups: the first concerns primarily non-written communication, the second mainly written communication, and the third blurs this somewhat arbitrary distinction. Topics in the first group include use of color in wall-paintings at Late Bronze Age Pylos; a re-interpretation of the ‘Harvester Vase’ from Ayia Triada; re-readings of the sequence of grave stelae at Mycenae, of Aegean representations of warfare, and of how ritual architecture is represented in the Knossos wall-paintings; and the use of painted media to represent depictions in other (lost) media such as cloth. Topics in the second group range from defining Aegean writing itself, through the contexts for literacy and how the Linear B script represented language, to a historical exploration of early attempts at deciphering Linear B. In the third group Linear B texts and archaeological data are used to explore how people were represented diacritically through taste and smell, and how different qualities of time were expressed both textually and materially; the roles of images in Aegean scripts, complemented by a Peircian analysis of early Cretan writing; a consideration of the complementary role of (non-literate) sealing and (literate) writing practices; and concludes with a further exploration of the color palette used at Pylos.

Material and immaterial modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean

Representations

To Four Voices (published in 1599)

Madrigals

Tom Phillips

Scott Young

Jason Nelson

Kate Baker

Mike Welham

Mike Shel

Legendary Games

Richard Pett

Daniel Hunt

Tim Hitchcock

Todd Stewart

Eytan Bernstein

Jeff Lee

Thurston Hillman

Duan Byrd

Russ Taylor

Steven T. Helt

Matt Goodall

Neil Spicer

Jim Groves

Robert Brookes

Eric Hindley

Isabelle Lee

Anthony ADam

Russ Brown

Jeff Dahl

Robyn Fields

Joel Flank

Robert J. Grady

Nick Hite

Mike Kimmel Marshall

Lyz Liddell

Alistair J. Rigg

Alex Riggs

Wendall Roy

Rachel Ventura

George Loki Williams

The Alien Bestiary brings you an incredible array of sci-fi and space-themedmonsters and menaces for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! The creatures you'll find within areperfect for whenever your heroes make a foray into the dark tapestry of space or have to defendtheir home from alien invasion by eldritch horrors from beyond the stars.

Alien Bestiary (Starfinder)

Livingston Vance Watrous

Despoina Chatzē-Vallianou

Harriet Blitzer

Based on fieldwork carried out from 1984-1987, this volume presents an exemplary survey of the Western Mesara region of Crete with detailed treatment of its physical and archaeological characteristics. The 15 chapters are grouped into the themes of the natural environment and its use and prehistoric and historical settlement and society. Specific chapter topics include geoarchaeology, cultural geography of Crete, agriculture and subsistence in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman periods, and chronological chapters describing evidence and interpretation of the area's various civilizations. Several appendices contain methods for botanical studies, the stone finds, and a register of the archaeological sites, among other information. A series of b&w plates, an exhaustive bibliography, and a glossary are provided. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete

The Plain of Phaistos

Jack L. Davis

This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the Palaeolithic to the present. Designed as much for general readers and travelers interested in ancient Greece as for scholars, the volume presents the findings of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (PRAP), which has intensively studied the region over the past 15 years. The 1998 edition, originally published by the University of Texas Press and widely used as a textbook in undergraduate classes, is reprinted with a new preface by Jack Davis and John Bennet, two of the project's original directors, assessing PRAP's impact and outlining new discoveries in the region.

An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino

Sandy Pylos

Toby C. Wilkinson

Susan Sherratt

How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. Systemic interactions in and between different regions of Eurasia over millennia were instrumental in the creation of mutually-dependent though distinct economic and cultural spheres. Bur how do we understand such interactions and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions both theoretically and empirically? This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in Sheffield in April 2008 in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from `world-systems' through `ritual economies' to `textile rivalries' and address the challenge of documenting, explaining and understanding the progressively more interwoven worlds of prehistoric Eurasia.

Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millennia BC

Interweaving Worlds

C.T. Whitley

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