Art and Archaeology - (L.) Marangou, (C.) Renfrew, (C.) Doumas and (G.) Gavalas Markiani, Amorgos. An Early Bronze Age Fortified Settlement. (British School at Athens Supplementary Volume 40). London: British School at Athens, 2006. Pp. xvi + 296, illus. £85. 9780904887525.

This paper presents previously unpublished material from the archives of the DAI and BSA, assessing its contribution to a better understanding of the settlement pattern on the north-east Aegean island of Lesbos in the Early Bronze Age, a period known only in terms of the single excavated sites of Thermi on its east coast. Using this new material evidence, the study places Thermi in its wider context within EBA Lesbos, demonstrating that several other EBA sites co-existed with Thermi, not only on the coast but also inland. It then places EBA settlements on the island in their west Anatolian context through an examination of ceramic parallels and affinities with mainland sites. It is argued: (1) that in view of the extensive distribution of EBA sites on Lesbos, colonization of the island must have begun long before the emergence of Thermi; (2) that several sources and mechanisms of colonization were involved in the process of settlement, which may be reflected in the fact that at least two distinct groups of sites can be identified on the island; and (3) that some of these sites appear to have relied upon agriculture rather than marine resources. Such inland agricultural sites may represent the first generation of purely endogenous communities which emerged on the island after its colonization.

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Myrtos. An Early Bronze Age Settlement in Crete. By Peter Warren. (British School at Athens Supplementary Paper, no. 7). 10 × 7½. Pp. 355 + 84 pls. + 129 figs. London: The British School of Archaeology at Athens and Thames and Hudson, 1972. £12.

The Antiquaries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0003581500075806 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 304-305 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Reynold Higgins

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

British School

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Myrtos - Peter Warren: Myrtos: An Early Bronze Age Settlement in Crete. (B.S.A. Supplementary Volume 7.) Pp. xi+355; 24 plates, 129 figs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. Cloth, £12.

The Classical Review ◽

10.1017/s0009840x00244594 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 116-118

Author(s):

Keith Branigan

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

Supplementary Volume

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The Flying Dutchman reaches port

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00062943 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 86 (332) ◽

pp. 546-557 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Vincent Megaw

Keyword(s):

Wave Propagation ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Short Wave ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

Mezzo Soprano ◽

British School ◽

Jewish Mother

Christopher Hawkes, foundation Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford, was once asked whether he knew a young archaeologist called Vincent Megaw. He responded: “Megaw? Megaw? There’s a whole tribe of Megaws!” This was a slight exaggeration. I was born in Stanmore, Middlesex, in 1934 to a Dutch Jewish mother, Th´erèse, a talented pianist and mezzo-soprano whose parents were taken to Auschwitz in 1942 and an Ulster Protestant father, Eric, a pioneer of ultra short-wave propagation who died at the age of 48 (Figure 1). One uncle, A.H.S. (Peter) Megaw was a distinguished Byzantinist and great singer of contemporary Greek songs. He was the last Director of Antiquities of the former Colony of Cyprus and then Director of the British School at Athens. His younger brother, Basil, read Archaeology at Peterhouse where he met (and subsequently married) Eleanor Hardy—family mythology has it that they got engaged while studying Early Bronze Age decorated axes (Megaw & Hardy 1938).

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Archaeology in Cyprus, 1949–1950

The Journal of Hellenic Studies ◽

10.2307/628208 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 71 ◽

pp. 258-260

Author(s):

A. H. S. Megaw

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Twelfth Century ◽

The Other ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

North Coast ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

The North ◽

British School ◽

Valuable Complement ◽

The Town

The identification of more Neolithic sites, two on the North coast, six and seven miles east of Kyrenia, throws light on the distribution, and is suggestive of the origin, of the first known settlers on the island.The publication of the results of the excavations in the Vounous cemetery sponsored by the British School at Athens (E. and J. Stewart, Vounous, 1937–1938. Lund, 1950) offers a wealth of material from the first stage of the Early Bronze Age, which is a valuable complement to that excavated by P. Dikaios and Dr. C. F. A. Schaeffer in the later section of the cemetery.Several LCII tombs, accidentally discovered at Kalavassos (site Mavrovouni) were excavated by the Antiquities Department. Two of them produced white slip vases of fine quality, which with the other contents are in the Larnaca Museum.Further campaigns by both Schaeffer and Dikaios carried forward the joint-excavation of the late Bronze Age town site at Enkomi. The grid plan of the street system is beginning to take shape and a new section of the town wall has been laid bare. But both excavators in their 1950 campaigns were mainly occupied with the further investigation of the two impressive buildings, mainly of ashlar construction, previously discovered. Schaeffer recovered evidence of re-use, after a fire, evidently in the twelfth century; and of this period found two seated bronze statuettes, one of them on a throne.

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