{"title":"The Rhetoric of Reciprocity in Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Exchange","authors":"Bryan E. Burns","doi":"10.1558/jmea.v29i1.31047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v29i1.31047","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution broadens the scope of the discussion to consider reciprocity in relation to acts of Mycenaean exchange that extend beyond the Aegean. This broader engagement with diverse states of the Mediterranean brought new opportunities for Mycenaean communities, and new categories of data for scholarly analysis, including written and visual representations of international exchange. The rhetoric of equality enabling gift exchange among leaders of eastern kingdoms can be usefully contrasted with the discourse of power and domination aimed at an internal audience. Recognizing the tropes of both ideological projections provides a valuable model for the potential strategies of Aegean actors managing and manipulating external sources of material goods and social power within their own regions. The distribution of imported cylinder seals in Boeotia offers an opportunity to consider the economic and political claims made by Aegean actors, both palatial and independent, who may have framed their acquisitions through the language of reciprocity.","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"89 1","pages":"88-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67566134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Reciprocity to Centricity: The Middle Bronze Age in the Greek Mainland","authors":"S. Voutsaki","doi":"10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31045","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I examine the role of reciprocal relations in processes of social change. More precisely, I discuss the transformation of modes of interaction and sumptuary behavior across a long period, from the collapse of the Early Bronze Age proto-urban societies, through the slow recovery during the Middle Bronze Age, to the intensification of social change during the transition to the Mycenaean period. A deep crisis swept across the southern Aegean at around 2200-2000 bc, bringing an end to the prosperous Early Helladic societies. While the causes of this crisis have been hotly debated, its consequences for the social fabric of the mainland communities have not been addressed systematically. In this study, I suggest that depopulation, social regression, and the ensuing fragmentation of the social body during Middle Helladic (MH) I-II (ca. 2100-1800 bc) were countered by two sets of practices: on the one hand, the establishment of reciprocal and segmentary networks of exchange that held together domestic groups, communities, and entire regions, and on the other, an emphasis on the continuity of the household that ensured its survival in this unstable period. The incorporation of the mainland into wider networks of interaction during the transition to the Mycenaean period (ca. 1800-1600 bc) brought about the transformation of kin-based MH societies to the differentiated Mycenaean polities. It is argued that this transformation relied on the manipulation of reciprocal exchanges and the subtle redefinition of modes of cooperation between households and kin groups.","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"29 1","pages":"70-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67565896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Papadopoulos (I): The Kerameikos Stratigraphy and the Character of the Greek Dark Age","authors":"I. Morris","doi":"10.1558/JMEA.V6I2.29913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JMEA.V6I2.29913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"6 1","pages":"207-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/JMEA.V6I2.29913","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67568188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Manning, S. Monks, Georgia Nakou, Francis A. De Mita
{"title":"The Fatal Shore, The Long Years, and the Geographical Unconscious. Considerations of Iconography, Chronology and Trade in Response to Negbi's 'The \"Libyan\" Landscape from Thera: A Review of Aegean Enterprises Overseas in the Late Minoan IA Period'","authors":"S. Manning, S. Monks, Georgia Nakou, Francis A. De Mita","doi":"10.1558/jmea.v7i2.29920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v7i2.29920","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"7 1","pages":"219-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/jmea.v7i2.29920","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67568375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Papadopoulos (II) Woods, Trees and Leaves in the Early Iron Age of Greece","authors":"James Whitley","doi":"10.1558/jmea.v6i2.29914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v6i2.29914","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"36 1","pages":"223-229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/jmea.v6i2.29914","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67567939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Pernicka et al.: Comment on the Discussion of Ancient Tin Sources in Anatolia","authors":"L. Willies","doi":"10.1558/JMEA.V5I1.29896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JMEA.V5I1.29896","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"5 1","pages":"99-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/JMEA.V5I1.29896","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67567659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Mark E. Hall and Sharon R. Steadman 'Tin and Anatolia: Another Look'","authors":"K. Yener, M. Goodway","doi":"10.1558/JMEA.V5I1.29894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JMEA.V5I1.29894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"5 1","pages":"77-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67567547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feasting, Phoenician Trade and Dynamics of Social Change in Northeastern Iberia: Rituals of Commensality in the Early Iron Age Settlement of Sant Jaume (Alcanar, Catalonia)","authors":"Samuel Sardà Seuma, D. Rubert, I. Martinez","doi":"10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31012","url":null,"abstract":"The archaeological study of feasting practices has proved to be one of the most fruitful lines of research in the social interpretation of the Mediterranean protohistoric record. The focus has been particularly effective for assessing the development of socio-political complexity and the evolution of socialization strategies that characterize many small-scale societies. In seeking to provide a similar assessment, this study analyses a set of ceramic tableware recovered from the early Iron Age site (seventh to sixth centuries BC) of Sant Jaume (Alcanar, Catalonia) and its associated domestic spaces and architectonic structures. Drawing on the postulates of commensality studies, we examine the functional and symbolic characteristics of these artefacts and the social practices linked to them.","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"29 1","pages":"37-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67565655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Kathryn Campeau, K. Freund
{"title":"Spherulites and Aspiring Elites: The Identification, Distribution, and Consumption of Giali Obsidian (Dodecanese, Greece)","authors":"Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Kathryn Campeau, K. Freund","doi":"10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31011","url":null,"abstract":"This paper details the results of a survey of the obsidian sources on the island of Giali in the Dodecanese, Greece, together with a review of these raw materials’ use from the Mesolithic to the Late Bronze Age (ninth to second millennium Cal bc). Elemental characterization of 76 geological samples from 11 sampling locations demonstrates the existence of two geochemically distinct sources, termed ‘Giali A’, and ‘Giali B’. The latter material, available in small cobble form on the island’s southwestern half, seems to have only been exploited by local residents during the Final Neolithic (fourth millennium Cal bc). In contrast, Giali A obsidian comprises a distinctive white-spotted raw material, available in large boulders on the northeastern half of Giali, whose use changed significantly over time. During the Mesolithic to later Neolithic it was mainly used for flake-based tool-production by local Dodecanesian populations. Further away, handfuls of Giali A obsidian are documented from Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age sites in Crete, the Cyclades, and western Anatolia. The distribution of this material is likely indicative of population movement, and regional socio-economic interaction more generally, rather than a significant desire for, and trade of, the material itself. This changed in the Middle Bronze Age (second millennium Cal bc), when Giali A obsidian was reconceptualized as a valued raw material, and used by Cretan palace-based lapidaries to make prestige goods. This radical shift in traditions of consumption resulted from Cretan factions appropriating Anatolian and Egyptian elite value regimes and craft practices as a means of creating new means of social distinction within a larger Eastern Mediterranean political arena.","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"29 1","pages":"3-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/JMEA.V29I1.31011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67565475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Kathryn Campeau, K. Freund
{"title":"Supplementary Data for Spherulites and Aspiring Elites: The Identification, Distribution, and Consumption of Giali Obsidian (Dodecanese, Greece)","authors":"Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Kathryn Campeau, K. Freund","doi":"10.1558/jmea.v29i1.31014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v29i1.31014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45203,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2016-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1558/jmea.v29i1.31014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67566175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}