Review of The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium, by K. Topper. In the Journal of Hellenic Studies 134.

Review of The Construction of Value in the Ancient World (Cotsen Advanced Seminar Series Vol. 5). J.K. Papadopoulos and G. Urton, eds. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. In the American Journal of Archaeology 119 (4).

Review of Les céramiques d’usage quotidien à Thasos au IVe siècle avant J.-C. (Études Thasiennes XX), by F. Blondé, with M. Picon (École Française d’Athènes 2007). In the American Journal of Archaeology 114 (4).

Review of Vessels and Variety: New Aspects of Ancient Pottery (Acta Hyperborea 13), H. Thomasen, A. Rathje, and K. Bøggild Johannsen, eds. In the American Jour-nal of Archaeology 118 (2).

While the international community has acted forcefully since WorldWar II to protect sites and objects of cultural or historic significance on Earth, little attention has been paid to the same kinds of sites and objects in space. There are important ethical and scholarly reasons for wanting to preserve sites and in situ objects in off-Earth…[Read more]

Forvm MMX is an interdisciplinary team whose members come from a variety of backgrounds (e.g., conservation, topography, biology, computer science, public dissemination, education), and whose work will offer open-access results in a digital format to other researchers and educators interested in a holistic global analysis of the documentation…[Read more]

This chapter is presented from the perspective of a professional archaeologist who specializes in Greek archaeology, intercultural contact and exchange, and the ethics of cultural heritage. His chapter investigates the mandates for discard and “design for demise” of space objects in the wider context of cultural phenomena from all cultures. The…[Read more]

The site of Morgantina, located on a ridge in the rolling landscape of east-central Sicily about 60 km from the Ionian Sea coast, has been the locus of continuous archaeological investigation
since 1955 (fig. 1).1 The ridge controlled the western end of the fertile Plain of Catania and stands above the source of the Gornalunga River. Farther…[Read more]

Research has been carried out since 2002 on domestic material of the 5th century BC from the site of Morgantina, located in the hills of east-central Sicily. Two settlements have been uncovered at Morgantina: one on the Cittadella hill, reportedly destroyed in 459 BC (according to Diodorus), and the other on the adjoining Serra Orlando ridge,…[Read more]

A brief report on my dissertation research.

In this study the authors analyse archaeological materials belonging to two Coțofeni
settlements in Rotbav, Brașov County, at La Pârâuț and Unghiul Gardului. Structures of habitat and
material culture in these two settlements are discussed, with an emphasis on pottery. The material is
studied in terms of typology and decoration, the auth…[Read more]

Encyclopedia entry on the concept of the “Neolithic Package”.

A short history of work at Göbekli Tepe and an overview of the UNESCO Worls Heritage List nomination process.

Hoard finds appear throughout the European Bronze Age with distinct chronological and chorological peaks. While there is some consensus on seeing hoards as an expression of cultic behaviour, especially the large ‘scrap metal’ hoards still provoke interpretations as raw material collected for recycling. With socketed axes whose sockets were int…[Read more]

Although their early evolution is largely obscure, socketed axes are among the most numerous artefacts of
the Southeastern European Late Bronze Age. They seem to appear all at once in a horizon of hoards conventionally
parallelized with the Central European Bz D phase. Some researchers have tried to explain this sudden occurrence as
the result…[Read more]

An extensive preliminary report on Göbekli Tepe´s Enclosure H – in German.

In 2011 a special object was discovered at Göbekli Tepe in one of the excavation trenches in the tell´s northwestern depression. The artefact was described preliminarily as a ‘spatula’ made from a rib bone. It measures 5.3 x 1.9 x 0.3 cm and carries a carved depiction that is only partially preserved. The image is unclear, however the upper part…[Read more]

The text discusses reuse and modifications of older graves in southern Sweden during the Late Iron Age and early medieval period (c. 9th to 12th centuries AD). Post-burial practices in the Late Iron Age have in general been interpreted as means to negotiate status, identity and rights to land, while in the later part of the period they are…[Read more]

The Austrian Denkmalschutzgesetz (heritage protection law) aims to give total protection to all archaeological heritage. To achieve this, it takes a ‘finds-centred’ approach: chance finds are protected by some provisions in the law, searching for archaeology is restricted severely, and exclusively to archaeology graduates, by others. Yet, what has…[Read more]

Archaeologists like to think that heritage protection laws serve the purpose to protect all archaeology from damage. Thus, provisions like that of § 11 (1) Austrian Denkmalschutzgesetz or Art. 3 i-ii of the Valetta convention are interpreted as a blanket ban on archaeological fieldwork ‘unauthorised’ by national heritage agencies, and a gene…[Read more]