Yiannis Papadatos

• Doctor of Philosophy
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The identification of ceramic imports within prehistoric and historic assemblages has long been the primary indicator for identifying connections between different sites and regions. Yet this has fostered a presence/absence diagnosis for contact between different communities. Approaches such as post-colonial perspectives and network analysis, which...

The Identification of Houses in Prepalatial Crete

The excavation trenches by the Department of History and Archaeology of the NKUA at the archaeological site of Plasi Marathon (Attica, Greece) have already revealed several architectural remains of the Classical period. A combined GPR and ERT survey was initiated in order to determine the existence and geometry of additional buried structures in th...

Since the 1980s, archaeometric analysis has changed drastically the picture of the Prepalatial period, providing new evidence about its characteristics, its organisation, and its complexity. This paper applies a synthetic approach to recent data combining the archaeological and archaeometric studies of pottery from sites across Crete. The clay reci...

SHEFFIELD STUDIES IN AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology provides a range of new approaches to key issues in Minoan archaeology, inspired by Professor Branigan's long-standing contribution to the archaeology of Bronze Age Crete. From the way in which the developmental trajectory of a single site can offer ins...

An experimental approach to the manufacture of Cycladic-type figurines with folded arms: preliminary observations

Mortuary practices, the ideology of death and social organization of the Siteia area: The Petras cemetery within its broader funerary landscape

Investigations at Livari (south-eastern Crete) produced a small Mesolithic chipped stone assemblage, whose techno-typological characteristics situate it within an ‘early Holocene Aegean island lithic tradition’ (9000–7000 cal BC). The material provides antecedent characteristics for the lithics of Crete’s founder Neolithic population at Knossos (c....

Figurines, Paint and the Perception of the Body in the Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean

The Emergence of trade and the integration of Crete into the wider Aegean in the late 4th Millennium: new evidence and implications

Currently, long-distance trading, gateway communities, and the longboat are understood to have emerged in the Aegean during Early Bronze (EB) IB/IIA. This longboattrading model envisages an essentially static configuration of trading communities situated at nodal points in maritime networks of interaction, an arrangement that was brought to an end,...

Back to beginnings: the earliest habitation at Petras on the basis of the evidence from the FN-EM I settlement on Kephala

The Neolithic-Early Bronze Age transition in Crete: new evidence from the settlement at Petras Kephala, Siteia

Beyond cultures and ethnicity: a new look at material culture distribution and inter-regional interaction in the Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean

A pilot project was carried out to assess the frequency of surviving fingerprints on Early Minoan pottery and to assess the quality of the prints. Two pottery assemblages, from the Ayia Kyriaki tholos and Myrtos Fournou Korifi settlement, were examined. Almost fifty sherds/vessels (out of nearly 20,000) were found to carry a total of 154 prints, bu...