Aoypmata Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E.Susan Sherrat / editör Yannis Galanakis, Toby Wilkinson, John Bennet

1. How and when did Tel Akko get its unusual banana shape -- 2. The integration of gold resources in Byzantine economy: an open question -- 3. The 'Sea Peoples' as an emergent phenomenon -- 4. Pottery mobility, landscape survey and maritime activity: a view from Kythera -- 5. 'In vino veritas': raising a toast at Mycenaean funerals -- 6. Geraki in Laconia in Late Helladic times -- 7. How warlike were the Mycenaeans, in reality -- 8. Desecrating signs: 'hieroglyphic' writing systems and secondary script inventions -- 9. Chronologies should carry a 'use by' date: the archaeological life history of the 'Beth Shan Stirrup Jar' -- 10. Arthur Evans and the quest for the "origins of Mycenaean culture" -- 11. Man/Woman, Warrior/Maiden: The Lefkandi Toumba female burial reconsidered -- 12. The Waz-lily and the Priest's Axe: can relief-beads tell us something? -- 13. 'Working with the shadows': in search of the myriad forms of social complexity -- 14. James Saumarez Cameron: a forgotten collector of Cretan seals -- 15. The Post-Mycenaean dead: 'damned if you do, damned if you don't -- 16. The spider's web: innovation and society in the Early Helladic ' Period of the Corridor Houses' -- 17. 'Metal makes the wheel go round': the development and diffusion of studded-tread wheels in the Ancient Near East and the Old World -- 18. "For is written": an experimental approach to the materiality and temporality of clay documents inscribed in Linear B -- 19. A 'wall bracket' from Kandia in the Argolid : notes on the local character and function of an 'east Mediterranean' artefact of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age -- 20. Reading post-palatial Mycenaean iconography: some lessons from Lefkandi -- 21. Functions and meanings of Aegean-type pottery at Tel Beth-Shean -- 22. Ceramic development in coastal Western Anatolia at the dawn of the Early Iron Age -- 23. Beaker Folk in Thrace: a metrological footnote -- 24. Rosso antico marble and the façade entablature of the Treasury of Atreus -- 25. Feasts of Clay? Ceramics and feasting at Early Minoan Myrtos: Fournou Korifi -- 26. Dressing the house, dressing the pots: textile-inspired decoration in the late 3rd and 2nd millennia BC east Mediterranean.

Over her career Susan Sherratt has questioned our basic assumptions in many areas of the later prehistory of the Mediterranean and Europe, deploying a canny eye for detail, but never losing sight of the big picture. Her collected works include contributions on the relationship between Homeric epic and archaeology; the economy of ceramics, metals and other materials; the status of the ‘Sea Peoples’ and other ethnic terminologies; routes and different forms of interaction; and the history of museums/collecting (especially relating to Sir Arthur Evans).