The Casts of the Lion Gate at Mycenae
Jan Driessen, Tina Kalantzopoulou
The Lion Gate at Mycenae is an icon, a piece of art more than 3300 years old, representing the glory of Mycenaean Greece. Preserved in situ, it has passed through time and circumstance, witnessing its own civilisation fail and many others flourishing since. This volume traces 33 casts, some no longer existing, and tells their stories.
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Report on the 2014-2019 Campaigns
Joachim Bretschneider, Athanasia Kanta
The volume is a detailed but preliminary account of the first six excavation campaigns (2014-2019) with a presentation of the archaeological material found in the different sectors of the hill. It also includes the first analyses of the different ceramic categories encountered and a report on the topographical work executed.
Preliminary Report on the 2011 Campaign, First Edition
Jan Driessen, Charlotte Langohr
Between 2007 and 2011, the Belgian School at Athens undertook excavations on the Kefali or Buff o hill, east of the village of Sissi, on the north coast of Crete, only a few kilometres east of...
The Archaeology of Social Breakdown, First Edition
Bulent Arkan
Tim Cunningham
Miroslav Bárta
Jan Driessen
R. Kyle Bocinsky, Megan Cifarelli
This discusses and critically analyses the variety of signatures and archaeological correlates of crisis conditions that led to social breakdown. As such it makes massive strides forward to a better theoretical understanding of crisis-induced collapse.
Stratigraphic Analysis, Pottery Seriation and Radiocarbon Dating in Mediterranean Chronology, First Edition
Jan Driessen, Tiziano Fantuzzi
Studies in honour of Hugh Sackett
Jan Driessen, Carl Knappett
This volume represents a tribute by friends, family and colleagues to Hugh Sackett, a British archaeologist who led important excavations at Knossos, Palaikastro and Lefkandi in Greece. Organised in two parts, Reminiscences and Archaeological Contributions, the texts speak both to Hugh's dual life as archaeologist and teacher...
Preliminary Report on the 2017-2019 Campaigns VOLUME 2
This volume, in two parts, is the fifth and last preliminary report on the excavations conducted at the Bronze Age site of Kephali tou Agiou Antoniou at Sissi in the nomos of Lasithi, Crete. It covers the campaigns during the summers of 2017, 2018 and 2019 with quite detailed reports on the different areas excavated.
Preliminary Report on the 2017-2019 Campaigns VOLUME 1
Acceptance of and Resistance to Foreign Influences in the Connected Ancient Mediterranean
Jan Driessen, Alessandro Vanzetti
The aim of this volume is to measure acceptance of, and resistance to, outside influences within Mediterranean coastal settlements and their immediate hinterlands, with a particular focus on the processes not reflecting simple commercial routes, but taking place at an intercultural level, in situations of developed connectedness.
Archaeological approaches to House Societies in the Bronze Age Aegean, First Edition
Maria Relaki, Jan Driessen
This collection of papers explores whether the Lévi-Straussian notion of the House is a valid concept in aiding the comprehension of the social structure of Bronze Age Aegean societies. The volume succeeds in stressing the advances made in the study of social structure of the Aegean on the basis of material remains.
Crisis-induced mobility and the Collapse of the 13th c. BCE Eastern Mediterranean
This collection of papers explores whether a meaningful distinction can be made in the archaeological record between migrations in general and conflict-induced migration in particular.
The Contemporary Past as a Challenge for Archaeology
Jean-Marie Blessing, Jan Driessen
The divide that once existed between the past and the present and between the archaeology of distant times and that of recent ones has started to disappear. Excavations are now exploring 20th century sites. The barriers that once compartmentalised the fields of history, archaeology and anthropology have begun to...
Studies on the Mycenaean World offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday, First Edition
This volume, in honour of one of the Odysseuses in Aegean archaeology, Professor Robert Laffineur, comprises a combination of papers presented during a seminar series on recent developments in Mycenaean archaeology at the Université de Louvain during the academic year...
Contextualising the Intentional Destruction of Objects in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus
Kate Harrell, Jan Driessen
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Florence Gaignerot-Driessen, Jan Driessen
This volume brings together a series of papers reflecting a number of lectures given at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2010-2012 in the frame of a seminar entitled La naissance des cités crétoises. Eight Cretan sites (Axos, Phaistos...
Archaeological, philological and historical perspectives, First Edition
Preliminary Report on the 2009-2010 Campaigns, First Edition
Since 2007, the Belgian School at Athens has undertaken excavations east of the village of Sissi (Crete) where a Minoan site was occupied approximately between 2500 and 1200 BC. This volume is the follow-up of an earlier one on the 2007-2008...
Preliminary Report on the 2007-2008 Campaigns, First Edition
During 2007 and 2008, the Belgian School at Athens undertook its first ever excavation on Crete, at the Minoan site of Sissi on the north coast of the...
Preliminary Report on the 2015-2016 Campaigns, First Edition