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Summary:Given the importance of the site of Myrtos to the definition of village living patterns in the Early Minoan period, and the current state of disagreement as to the nature of the social system actually in place at Myrtos, a new investigation into the matter is warranted. In order to carry out that investigation, the possibility of constructing and utilizing a typology of relative function from the available ceramics is examined, and the results applied to an analysis of the living pattern at the site, along with a review of prior attempts at artifact‐distribution and architectural‐design analysis. It is suggested that the social pattern and population level at Myrtos during the EM II period was closer to Warren's original communal model than more recent theories of independent nuclear families, as there is clear evidence for an intra‐site communal storage and distribution pa

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00253.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

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Summary:The Multiple Sealing System (MSS) is defined as the habitual stamping of regular combinations of two or three different seal impressions on clay nodules (bullae). This system was thought to be peculiar to LM IB Zakro, where it is indeed most fully developed, but a MinoanMSScan now be traced back ‐ via MM IIIB Knossos ‐ to the earliest administrative use of sealings on Crete, at MM IIB Phaistos. This earlyMSSat Phaistos has close links with a similar administrative use of seals in regular combinations at Karahöyük Level I. We suggest that theMSSis a new and objective factor to be added to the known, if often disputed, glyptic relations between MBA Anatolia and Minoan

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00254.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Summary:An unusual red and black bowl was found in Parker's excavations in Jerusalem at the beginning of the century. There has been no agreement as to the provenience of the bowl, the most common opinion being that it was a Cypriot import dating to Middle Bronze I age. an Archaeological re‐appraisal and Archaeometric examinations of the bowl and selected additional pottery from the same excavation revealed that the bowl is clearly of local manufacture and has no pertinence to the foreign relations of the Land of Israel during the Middle Bronze I ag

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00255.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

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Summary:A study was made of 229 skins bearing hair or wool from bags and clothing in the Iron Age salt mines at Hallstatt; 87% were from livestock and of these 8% were from cattle, 22% from goats and 70% from sheep. of the sheepskins most were of hairy‐medium type (61%) or coarser, while all the textiles examined earlier were of this type or finer; 5% were of hairy type, which first appeared in the Iron Age; 32% were Neolithic survivals with a wild‐type coat (no fleece) and two‐thirds of these had a Mouflon colour pattern, while the remainder had a range of colours. the cattle were brown and two thirds of the goats were black. All livestock had the small size expected of the breeds of the period. the other skins included possibly chamois and ibex as well as dog, and small fur‐

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00256.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

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Summary:Large pits have long been known to be a characteristic of the British Iron Age. Originally they were thought to be habitations but since the 1930s they have been assumed to have served as grain silos. This paper reviews our changing conceptions and then considers a range of new data for special burials within the pits. A model is developed which sees the storage of seed grain in pits as a deliberate act designed to place the grain in the protection of the chthonic deities. the chronological and spatial implications of pit storage in Britain are briefly considered.

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00257.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

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Summary:This paper re‐examines the pit circles at Dorchester on Thames in the light of the recently excavated timber circle at Sarn‐y‐bryn‐caled. It is suggested that the Dorchester sites were originally timber circles whose posts were later dug out prior to their secondary use as cremation cemeteries. Pits in the base of the segmented ditches, interpreted as ‘Bothroi’or votive pits by Atkinson, may represent the bases of the posts. These might survive either as a result of incomplete digging out or digging in to ensure that the tops of posts of unequal length were level. Duplication of post‐bases in some of the Dorchester sites finds parallel in the recently exacavated timber circle of

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00258.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

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Summary:This paper explores some problems of Romano British ceramic chronology and puts forward the suggestion that pottery production in Roman Britain rose and fell in a series of cyclical phases. the pattern matches that of Samian production and also the increases and decreases in the speed (velocity) with which silver coinage circulated in the 1st to early 3rd centuries AD and after. It is suggested that these data can be used to trace the progress of a multisecular cycle the effects of which may also be detectable across the Roman world‐economy as a whole. the archaeological and historical implications of this pattern ‐ which may be perceived in the Iron Age and the Post Roman periods, are discussed and a possible explanation is advanced for it. Some quantification methods which would help support or refute the hypothesis are considered and a way of reconciling pottery and context dates is presen

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00259.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0262-5253    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1992.tb00260.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY