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Reinhard Jung

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Senior Researcher

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Eine apenninische Schale in Kition. Anzeichen für einen süditalienisch-zyprischen Kontakt im 14. Jahrhundert v. u. Z.

Archaeologia Austriaca, 107, 2023

A rim fragment of a handmade vessel with intaglio decoration is part of the ceramic finds from to... more A rim fragment of a handmade vessel with intaglio decoration is part of the ceramic finds from tomb complex 4+5 at Kition on the south coast of Cyprus. It can be identified as a cup/bowl of the Apennine culture group, which makes it the only Apennine vessel known from the Eastern Mediterranean so far. The distribution of the parallels for the combination of vessel shape and motif in Italy demonstrates that the main production area of such vessels was Campania. The date of the parallels in the Italian Middle Bronze Age 3 fits with the date of the earliest of the pottery grave goods in tomb complex 4+5, as most of those were produced in LH IIIA2. Presumably during this time, the Apennine vessel came from southern Italy – most probably from Campania or the Taranto region, where Mycenaean pottery of the same age has also been found – to Cyprus.

Observations on the Pottery of the 2014–2019 Campaigns

by Reinhard Jung and Ioanna Kostopoulou

J. Bretschneider/A. Kanta/J. Driessen, Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos. Report on the 2014–2019 Campaigns. Aegis 24, 2023

Breakers of Chains im Mittelmeerraum

S. Hansen/R. Krause (eds.), Die Frühgeschichte von Krieg und Konflikt. Beiträge der vierten internationalen LOEWE-Konferenz vom 7. bis 9. Oktober 2019 in Frankfurt/M. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 383, 2022

Reinhard Jung/Eleftheria Kardamaki (eds.) Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces. Mykenische Studien 36, 2022

Synchronizing Palace Destructions in the Eastern Mediterranean

Reinhard Jung/Eleftheria Kardamaki (eds.) Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces. Mykenische Studien 36, 2022

The different destructions of the Mycenaean palaces on the Greek mainland and on Crete unfold the... more The different destructions of the Mycenaean palaces on the Greek mainland and on Crete unfold their historical relevance on two different levels. Firstly, and in a very concrete way, they signify the sharpening crisis and subsequently the final and definite demise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (or else the Palace State) in southeastern Europe. Second, these palace destructions happened during a period, in which various circum-Mediterranean societies were undergoing profound social and economic changes. Similarly to Greece, those changes were marked by violent destructions of political and economic centers in a number of different regions. Since the developments of the societies living along the central and the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea were interconnected in stronger or weaker relationships of uneven and combined character, especially so during the 14 th and 13 th centuries BCE, the question arises whether it is possible to uncover causal connections between events separated by many hundreds of kilometers. In order to fully perceive and explain the historical importance of the Mycenaean palace destructions, it is therefore necessary to widen the geographical perspective. As the precondition of any interregional historical analysis is the precise localization of specific events in time, this paper explores the timeline of major eastern Mediterranean destruction events with reference to the palace destructions in Greece as well as in terms of absolute chronology (mainly in relation to Egyptian and Near Eastern rulers' reigns). A comparison of stratified pottery assemblages forms the basis for this endeavor.

Mycenaean-type Pottery from Tall Zirā‘a

R. Jung (with a contribution by H. Mommsen), Mycenaean-type Pottery from Tall Zirā‘a. In: J. Häser, Tall Zirā‘a – The Gadara Region Project (2001–2011) 3. Late Bronze Age (Strata 16–14) (Wuppertal 2022) 516–547., 2022

Aegean-type and Aegeanizing pottery from Ionian Apulia. New Studies and provenance analyses

Origini 44/2020, 111–148, 2021

Origini è una rivista annuale soggetta a processo di peer-review ed è pubblicata da / Origini is ... more

Neutron Activation Analysis of Aegean and Aegeanising Ceramics from Roca Vecchia and the Circulation of Pottery in Southern Italy

by Francesco Iacono and Reinhard Jung

R. Jung, (ed) Punta Zambrone I, OAW, Wien, 2021

This article reports the results o an archaeometric study using NAA on 20 samples o wheelmade fin... more This article reports the results o an archaeometric study using NAA on 20 samples o wheelmade fine-ware pottery and one pithos from Roca Vecchia in Apulia. The study aims at elucidating the circulation of Mycenaean-type and Italo-Mycenaean-type vessels across southern Italy. For comparison with Punta di Zambrone, we have focused on ceramics from the RBA levels of Roca Vecchia, as this is a coastal settlement, which, according to previous studies, yielded both Aegean imports and local or regional Italo-Mycenaean products, all well-stratified in a continuous ertical settlement se uence. The chemical analysis identified a ew imports rom Greece (mainly rom Achaea Elis) and many Apulian products (forming two chemical groups), some of which adhere closely to the Mycenaean style, while others are of Italo-Mycenaean type. These Apulian chemical groups are absent from the previously analysed pots from Punta di Zambrone. One medium coarse pithos from Roca Vecchia turned out to be an import from the southern plain of Sybaris, i.e. the same region that is represented with a ew Mycenaean fine-ware essels at Punta di ambrone.

Production Regions and Technology of Pottery at Punta di Zambrone: NAA and Petrography in a Combined Approach

by Pamela Fragnoli and Reinhard Jung

Punta di Zambrone I: 1200 BCE - A Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece, Reinhard Jung (Ed.), 2021

We analysed 37 samples of pottery and daub fragments from Punta di Zambrone (province of Vibo Val... more We analysed 37 samples of pottery and daub fragments from Punta di Zambrone (province of Vibo Valentia) by combining thin-section petrography and Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) geochemistry. The aim is to identify possible production areas for some wheelmade vessels of Aegean type and better define raw materials and paste recipes for the local handmade impasto ware. By integrating petrographic and NAA results, one reliable group emerged, which refers to the local specialised production of Recent Bronze Age (RBA) open shapes. A filter test allowing larger elemental variances was applied on NAA data in order to identify further groups (named special groups) to be specifically compared with petrographic fabrics. The special NAA group Ul41 and petro group 3, including local reference materials such as daub fragments, correlate well. Furthermore, the concentration pattern of Ul41 is close to that of local clay deposits (Cava Monaca and Fiumara Jona). The RBA closed shapes show a lower correspondence between geochemical and petrographic results, presumably attributable to less standardised production processes.

Frattesina Between Continental Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (including appendix and erratum)

R. Jung (with an appendix by M. Mehofer/R. Jung/E. Pernicka), Frattesina between Continental Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Padusa 56, 173–202, 2020

Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Rovigo in data 5 agosto 1965 N. 127 Questo numero è stato stampat... more Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Rovigo in data 5 agosto 1965 N. 127 Questo numero è stato stampato con il contributo di: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo; Comune di Rovigo Padusa è una rivista che si avvale di esperti anonimi per il processo di revisione. Padusa is a Peer-Reviewed Journal. Padusa è distribuita gratuitamente ai soci del CPSSAE in regola con il pagamento della quota sociale annuale.

Choleva M., Jung R. & Kardamaki E. 2020. Working on the potter’s wheel: technological insights into Mycenaean pottery production

by Maria Choleva, Reinhard Jung, and Elina Kardamaki

Egypt and the Levant 30, 2020

The present paper deals with the wheel-based manufacturing technology employed for the production... more The present paper deals with the wheel-based manufacturing technology employed for the production of pottery in central Laconia and the Argolid during the Mycenaean palatial period (roughly 1450-1200 BCE). The main set of data comes from the combined macroscopic and X-Ray analyses on pottery discovered at the palace of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia. Additional material of Argive/NE Peloponnesian provenance was examined as well for comparative reasons. The latter comes from Tiryns and Tall Zirā'a, Jordan. Although growing evidence suggests that wheel-forming techniques can be more variable than one would have traditionally thought, very few studies have examined the use of the potter's wheel during the Mycenaean period and the underlying craft behaviours. Our study suggests that the knowledge of this tool in the Argolid and central Laconia was not associated with the wheel-throwing technique but the so-called wheel-coiling, and was based on similar levels of expertise. However, we can also observe variations between these two regions, especially in the ways of mastering the rotary device within the forming process. The manufacture of the wheelmade pottery in Mycenaean Greece implies thus a complex technological phenomenon that involved different potting communities participating in the social and economic organization of palatial pottery production.

Untersuchungen zur Herkunft des mykenischen Goldes mittels mobiler Laserablation und ICP-Massenspektrometrie

by Moritz Numrich, Ernst Pernicka, Reinhard Jung, Christoph Schwall, Jasmin Huber, and Barbara Horejs

M. Numrich – E. Pernicka – R. Jung – Ch. Schwall – J. Huber – B. Horejs, Untersuchungen zur Herku... more M. Numrich – E. Pernicka – R. Jung – Ch. Schwall – J. Huber – B. Horejs, Untersuchungen zur Herkunft des mykenischen Goldes mittels mobiler Laserablation und ICP-Massenspektrometrie, in: C. Herm – S. Merkel – M. Schreiner – R. Wiesinger (Hrsg.), Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege 2019. Jahrestagung an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Institut für Naturwissenschaften und Technologie in der Kunst, 11.-14. September 2019, METALLA Sonderheft 9 (Bochum 2019) 230–233.

ARCHAEOMETRIC STUDIES OF PLAIN WARE COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES, in HADJISAVVAS S. (ed.), Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mandilaris and Paliotaverna 1984-2000, Nicosia 2017: 539–558.

by Pamela Fragnoli, Barbara Borgers, and Reinhard Jung

presence of a slip layer). The 17 petrographic fabrics and their main characteristics are describ... more

Tell Kazel: From Aḫḫiyawa to Amurru by Ship

Mycenae – Tell Kazel: From Aḫḫiyawa to Amurru by Ship. In: F. Briquel Chatonnet/E. Capet/E. Gubel/C. Roche-Hawley (eds.), Nuit de pleine lune sur Amurru. Mélanges offerts à Leila Badre (Paris) 235–251, 2019

La genèse de la cité phénicienne en Méditerranée occidentale : les mythes et les faits, Mhamed H.

Ornamenti in materiale vetroso dell’età del Bronzo dall’Italia meridionale e dall’area siciliano-eoliana

I. Matarese/S. Conte/R. Jung/M. Pacciarelli, Ornamenti in materiale vetroso dell’età del Bronzo dall’Italia meridionale e dall’area siciliano-eoliana: un inquadramento d’insieme alla luce di nuovi dati. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche 68, 2018, 385–424, 2019

Lo studio delle produzioni specialistiche e dei materiali di pregio, arricchito dal crescente app... more Lo studio delle produzioni specialistiche e dei materiali di pregio, arricchito dal crescente apporto dell'archeometria, ha determinato negli ultimi decenni un avanzamento notevolissimo delle conoscenze sulle interazioni a lunga distanza facenti capo all'Italia e alle isole adiacenti. Un gran-de investimento di energie è stato dedicato alla ceramica egea e di tipo egeo, che ha consentito di riconoscere l'evoluzione di alcuni importanti processi di scambio in senso est-ovest. Com'è noto nel Bronzo medio si assiste a una prevalente presenza nel Mediterraneo centrale di ceramiche prodotte in Egeo, 1 cui nel Bronzo tardo 2 (con limitate testimonianze precedenti) si affiancano trasferimenti di know-how verso ovest. Questi ultimi determinano l'impianto in Italia-soprattutto nel sud-est, ma non solo-di centri di 1

Push and Pull Factors of the Sea Peoples between Italy and the Levant

J. Driessen (ed.), An Archaeology of Forced Migration. Crisis-induced Mobility and the Collapse of the 13th c. BCE Eastern Mediterranean. Aegis 15 , 2018

Le relazioni egee degli insediamenti calabresi e del basso Tirreno durante l’età del Bronzo

L. Cicala/M. Pacciarelli (eds), Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all’età ellenistica. Atti del convegno internazionale, Napoli, 16–17 gennaio 2014, 2017

Estratto da: Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica. At... more Estratto da: Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Napoli, 16-17 gennaio 2014. Naus Editoria 2017-COPIA PER L'AUTORE Archeologie Temi, contesti, materiali 1 Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica Atti del convegno internazionale Napoli, 16-17 gennaio 2014 a cura di Luigi Cicala e Marco Pacciarelli 1 Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica Archeologie. Temi, contesti, materiali è una collana dell'Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II a cura di Luigi Cicala e Marco Pacciarelli La collana "Archeologie. Temi, contesti, materiali" è indirizzata allo studio delle civiltà dell'Italia peninsulare e delle isole adiacenti, in consonanza con gli obiettivi del Centro Interdipartimentale per gli Studi sulla Magna Grecia cui afferisce. Il programma editoriale, aperto a diversi ambiti tema-tici e metodologici, intende proporre lavori monografici e miscellanei, maturati nell'ambito di programmi di ricerca individuali e di équipe, valorizzando le esperienze di carattere interdisciplina-re e le proposte delle risorse più giovani dell'archeologia. Il titolo e l'idea di questa collana nascono a margine di una stimolante esperienza condivisa con gli studenti federiciani, a partire dal 2010, volta ad integrare la formazione delle discipline archeologiche con saperi diversi, da quelli scientifi-ci e naturalistici a quelli sperimentali, fino alle diverse dimensioni della professione. A tale prospet-tiva, che ci si augura possa essere sempre più diffusa nella formazione universitaria, questa collana intende apportare un nuovo contributo. In prima di copertina: Pian della Tirena, Nocera Terinese (Cz) (European Space Imaging, 2005); in quarta di copertina: Punta di Zambrone, area C, fossato difensivo, statuetta d'avorio minoica (probabilmente d'età neopalaziale) rinvenuta negli strati di riempimento del Bronzo recente (foto di Juraj Liptàk).

Mykenische Keramik in der Rhodopenregion. Herkunft, regionaler Kontext und sozialökonomische Grundlagen

Archaeologia Austriaca

Dieser Beitrag behandelt mykenische Keramik aus den Siedlungen von Dragojna in den Rhodopen und K... more Dieser Beitrag behandelt mykenische Keramik aus den Siedlungen von Dragojna in den Rhodopen und Koprivlen im Mestatal. Die Produktionsregionen der Gefäße konnten mittels Neutronenaktivierungsanalyse (NAA) bestimmt werden, wobei die früheren Resultate zu Dragojna hier den neuen Ergebnissen zu Koprivlen gegenüber gestellt werden. Sie bieten Gelegenheit, die Entwicklung der Kontakte zwischen dem Ostbalkanraum und der Nordägäis wie auch dem mykenischen Griechenland einer Neubewertung zu unterziehen. Es zeichnen sich zwei ökonomisch-historische Perioden ab. Die frühere umfasst die Phasen SH IIB und SH IIIA1 und zeichnet sich durch den Import mykenischer Keramik wie auch mykenischer Waffen aus den Gebieten des sich etablierenden und expandierenden mykenischen Palaststaats im Rahmen gerichteter, direkter Austauschkontakte aus. Diese könnten mit dem Goldabbau in den Rhodopen zusammenhängen. Die jüngere Periode dauerte etwa von SH IIIB bis SH IIIC Früh. Zu dieser Zeit gelangte mykenische Keramik aus unterschiedlichen Produktionsregionen in den Ostbalkanraum, teils aus nordägäischen Werkstätten, teils aus dem mykenischen Süden. Importe oder Imitationen spätpalast-oder nachpalastzeitlicher Waffen sind hingegen nicht belegt.

The Sea Peoples after Three Millennia: Possibilities and Limitations of Historical Reconstruction

P. Fischer/T. Bürge (eds), “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries BCE. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 35, 2017

The Sea Peoples after Three Millennia: Possibilities and Limitations of Historical Reconstruction... more The Sea Peoples after Three Millennia: Possibilities and Limitations of Historical Reconstruction. In: P. Fischer/T. Bürge (eds), “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries BCE. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 35 (Vienna 2017) 23–42.

Cooking Vessels from Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Local Traditions, Western and Eastern Innovations

J. Hruby/D. Trusty (eds), From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, 2017

R. Jung (with a contribution by H. Mommsen), Cooking Vessels from Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Local T... more

Eine apenninische Schale in Kition. Anzeichen für einen süditalienisch-zyprischen Kontakt im 14. Jahrhundert v. u. Z.

Archaeologia Austriaca, 107, 2023

A rim fragment of a handmade vessel with intaglio decoration is part of the ceramic finds from to... more A rim fragment of a handmade vessel with intaglio decoration is part of the ceramic finds from tomb complex 4+5 at Kition on the south coast of Cyprus. It can be identified as a cup/bowl of the Apennine culture group, which makes it the only Apennine vessel known from the Eastern Mediterranean so far. The distribution of the parallels for the combination of vessel shape and motif in Italy demonstrates that the main production area of such vessels was Campania. The date of the parallels in the Italian Middle Bronze Age 3 fits with the date of the earliest of the pottery grave goods in tomb complex 4+5, as most of those were produced in LH IIIA2. Presumably during this time, the Apennine vessel came from southern Italy – most probably from Campania or the Taranto region, where Mycenaean pottery of the same age has also been found – to Cyprus.

Observations on the Pottery of the 2014–2019 Campaigns

by Reinhard Jung and Ioanna Kostopoulou

J. Bretschneider/A. Kanta/J. Driessen, Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos. Report on the 2014–2019 Campaigns. Aegis 24, 2023

Breakers of Chains im Mittelmeerraum

S. Hansen/R. Krause (eds.), Die Frühgeschichte von Krieg und Konflikt. Beiträge der vierten internationalen LOEWE-Konferenz vom 7. bis 9. Oktober 2019 in Frankfurt/M. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 383, 2022

Reinhard Jung/Eleftheria Kardamaki (eds.) Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces. Mykenische Studien 36, 2022

Synchronizing Palace Destructions in the Eastern Mediterranean

Reinhard Jung/Eleftheria Kardamaki (eds.) Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces. Mykenische Studien 36, 2022

The different destructions of the Mycenaean palaces on the Greek mainland and on Crete unfold the... more The different destructions of the Mycenaean palaces on the Greek mainland and on Crete unfold their historical relevance on two different levels. Firstly, and in a very concrete way, they signify the sharpening crisis and subsequently the final and definite demise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (or else the Palace State) in southeastern Europe. Second, these palace destructions happened during a period, in which various circum-Mediterranean societies were undergoing profound social and economic changes. Similarly to Greece, those changes were marked by violent destructions of political and economic centers in a number of different regions. Since the developments of the societies living along the central and the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea were interconnected in stronger or weaker relationships of uneven and combined character, especially so during the 14 th and 13 th centuries BCE, the question arises whether it is possible to uncover causal connections between events separated by many hundreds of kilometers. In order to fully perceive and explain the historical importance of the Mycenaean palace destructions, it is therefore necessary to widen the geographical perspective. As the precondition of any interregional historical analysis is the precise localization of specific events in time, this paper explores the timeline of major eastern Mediterranean destruction events with reference to the palace destructions in Greece as well as in terms of absolute chronology (mainly in relation to Egyptian and Near Eastern rulers' reigns). A comparison of stratified pottery assemblages forms the basis for this endeavor.

Mycenaean-type Pottery from Tall Zirā‘a

R. Jung (with a contribution by H. Mommsen), Mycenaean-type Pottery from Tall Zirā‘a. In: J. Häser, Tall Zirā‘a – The Gadara Region Project (2001–2011) 3. Late Bronze Age (Strata 16–14) (Wuppertal 2022) 516–547., 2022

Aegean-type and Aegeanizing pottery from Ionian Apulia. New Studies and provenance analyses

Origini 44/2020, 111–148, 2021

Origini è una rivista annuale soggetta a processo di peer-review ed è pubblicata da / Origini is ... more

Neutron Activation Analysis of Aegean and Aegeanising Ceramics from Roca Vecchia and the Circulation of Pottery in Southern Italy

by Francesco Iacono and Reinhard Jung

R. Jung, (ed) Punta Zambrone I, OAW, Wien, 2021

This article reports the results o an archaeometric study using NAA on 20 samples o wheelmade fin... more This article reports the results o an archaeometric study using NAA on 20 samples o wheelmade fine-ware pottery and one pithos from Roca Vecchia in Apulia. The study aims at elucidating the circulation of Mycenaean-type and Italo-Mycenaean-type vessels across southern Italy. For comparison with Punta di Zambrone, we have focused on ceramics from the RBA levels of Roca Vecchia, as this is a coastal settlement, which, according to previous studies, yielded both Aegean imports and local or regional Italo-Mycenaean products, all well-stratified in a continuous ertical settlement se uence. The chemical analysis identified a ew imports rom Greece (mainly rom Achaea Elis) and many Apulian products (forming two chemical groups), some of which adhere closely to the Mycenaean style, while others are of Italo-Mycenaean type. These Apulian chemical groups are absent from the previously analysed pots from Punta di Zambrone. One medium coarse pithos from Roca Vecchia turned out to be an import from the southern plain of Sybaris, i.e. the same region that is represented with a ew Mycenaean fine-ware essels at Punta di ambrone.

Production Regions and Technology of Pottery at Punta di Zambrone: NAA and Petrography in a Combined Approach

by Pamela Fragnoli and Reinhard Jung

Punta di Zambrone I: 1200 BCE - A Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece, Reinhard Jung (Ed.), 2021

We analysed 37 samples of pottery and daub fragments from Punta di Zambrone (province of Vibo Val... more We analysed 37 samples of pottery and daub fragments from Punta di Zambrone (province of Vibo Valentia) by combining thin-section petrography and Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) geochemistry. The aim is to identify possible production areas for some wheelmade vessels of Aegean type and better define raw materials and paste recipes for the local handmade impasto ware. By integrating petrographic and NAA results, one reliable group emerged, which refers to the local specialised production of Recent Bronze Age (RBA) open shapes. A filter test allowing larger elemental variances was applied on NAA data in order to identify further groups (named special groups) to be specifically compared with petrographic fabrics. The special NAA group Ul41 and petro group 3, including local reference materials such as daub fragments, correlate well. Furthermore, the concentration pattern of Ul41 is close to that of local clay deposits (Cava Monaca and Fiumara Jona). The RBA closed shapes show a lower correspondence between geochemical and petrographic results, presumably attributable to less standardised production processes.

Frattesina Between Continental Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean (including appendix and erratum)

R. Jung (with an appendix by M. Mehofer/R. Jung/E. Pernicka), Frattesina between Continental Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Padusa 56, 173–202, 2020

Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Rovigo in data 5 agosto 1965 N. 127 Questo numero è stato stampat... more Autorizzazione del Tribunale di Rovigo in data 5 agosto 1965 N. 127 Questo numero è stato stampato con il contributo di: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo; Comune di Rovigo Padusa è una rivista che si avvale di esperti anonimi per il processo di revisione. Padusa is a Peer-Reviewed Journal. Padusa è distribuita gratuitamente ai soci del CPSSAE in regola con il pagamento della quota sociale annuale.

Choleva M., Jung R. & Kardamaki E. 2020. Working on the potter’s wheel: technological insights into Mycenaean pottery production

by Maria Choleva, Reinhard Jung, and Elina Kardamaki

Egypt and the Levant 30, 2020

The present paper deals with the wheel-based manufacturing technology employed for the production... more The present paper deals with the wheel-based manufacturing technology employed for the production of pottery in central Laconia and the Argolid during the Mycenaean palatial period (roughly 1450-1200 BCE). The main set of data comes from the combined macroscopic and X-Ray analyses on pottery discovered at the palace of Ayios Vasileios in Laconia. Additional material of Argive/NE Peloponnesian provenance was examined as well for comparative reasons. The latter comes from Tiryns and Tall Zirā'a, Jordan. Although growing evidence suggests that wheel-forming techniques can be more variable than one would have traditionally thought, very few studies have examined the use of the potter's wheel during the Mycenaean period and the underlying craft behaviours. Our study suggests that the knowledge of this tool in the Argolid and central Laconia was not associated with the wheel-throwing technique but the so-called wheel-coiling, and was based on similar levels of expertise. However, we can also observe variations between these two regions, especially in the ways of mastering the rotary device within the forming process. The manufacture of the wheelmade pottery in Mycenaean Greece implies thus a complex technological phenomenon that involved different potting communities participating in the social and economic organization of palatial pottery production.

Untersuchungen zur Herkunft des mykenischen Goldes mittels mobiler Laserablation und ICP-Massenspektrometrie

by Moritz Numrich, Ernst Pernicka, Reinhard Jung, Christoph Schwall, Jasmin Huber, and Barbara Horejs

M. Numrich – E. Pernicka – R. Jung – Ch. Schwall – J. Huber – B. Horejs, Untersuchungen zur Herku... more M. Numrich – E. Pernicka – R. Jung – Ch. Schwall – J. Huber – B. Horejs, Untersuchungen zur Herkunft des mykenischen Goldes mittels mobiler Laserablation und ICP-Massenspektrometrie, in: C. Herm – S. Merkel – M. Schreiner – R. Wiesinger (Hrsg.), Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege 2019. Jahrestagung an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Institut für Naturwissenschaften und Technologie in der Kunst, 11.-14. September 2019, METALLA Sonderheft 9 (Bochum 2019) 230–233.

ARCHAEOMETRIC STUDIES OF PLAIN WARE COMPOSITION AND MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES, in HADJISAVVAS S. (ed.), Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mandilaris and Paliotaverna 1984-2000, Nicosia 2017: 539–558.

by Pamela Fragnoli, Barbara Borgers, and Reinhard Jung

presence of a slip layer). The 17 petrographic fabrics and their main characteristics are describ... more

Tell Kazel: From Aḫḫiyawa to Amurru by Ship

Mycenae – Tell Kazel: From Aḫḫiyawa to Amurru by Ship. In: F. Briquel Chatonnet/E. Capet/E. Gubel/C. Roche-Hawley (eds.), Nuit de pleine lune sur Amurru. Mélanges offerts à Leila Badre (Paris) 235–251, 2019

La genèse de la cité phénicienne en Méditerranée occidentale : les mythes et les faits, Mhamed H.

Ornamenti in materiale vetroso dell’età del Bronzo dall’Italia meridionale e dall’area siciliano-eoliana

I. Matarese/S. Conte/R. Jung/M. Pacciarelli, Ornamenti in materiale vetroso dell’età del Bronzo dall’Italia meridionale e dall’area siciliano-eoliana: un inquadramento d’insieme alla luce di nuovi dati. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche 68, 2018, 385–424, 2019

Lo studio delle produzioni specialistiche e dei materiali di pregio, arricchito dal crescente app... more Lo studio delle produzioni specialistiche e dei materiali di pregio, arricchito dal crescente apporto dell'archeometria, ha determinato negli ultimi decenni un avanzamento notevolissimo delle conoscenze sulle interazioni a lunga distanza facenti capo all'Italia e alle isole adiacenti. Un gran-de investimento di energie è stato dedicato alla ceramica egea e di tipo egeo, che ha consentito di riconoscere l'evoluzione di alcuni importanti processi di scambio in senso est-ovest. Com'è noto nel Bronzo medio si assiste a una prevalente presenza nel Mediterraneo centrale di ceramiche prodotte in Egeo, 1 cui nel Bronzo tardo 2 (con limitate testimonianze precedenti) si affiancano trasferimenti di know-how verso ovest. Questi ultimi determinano l'impianto in Italia-soprattutto nel sud-est, ma non solo-di centri di 1

Push and Pull Factors of the Sea Peoples between Italy and the Levant

J. Driessen (ed.), An Archaeology of Forced Migration. Crisis-induced Mobility and the Collapse of the 13th c. BCE Eastern Mediterranean. Aegis 15 , 2018

Le relazioni egee degli insediamenti calabresi e del basso Tirreno durante l’età del Bronzo

L. Cicala/M. Pacciarelli (eds), Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all’età ellenistica. Atti del convegno internazionale, Napoli, 16–17 gennaio 2014, 2017

Estratto da: Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica. At... more Estratto da: Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Napoli, 16-17 gennaio 2014. Naus Editoria 2017-COPIA PER L'AUTORE Archeologie Temi, contesti, materiali 1 Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica Atti del convegno internazionale Napoli, 16-17 gennaio 2014 a cura di Luigi Cicala e Marco Pacciarelli 1 Centri fortificati indigeni della Calabria dalla protostoria all'età ellenistica Archeologie. Temi, contesti, materiali è una collana dell'Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II a cura di Luigi Cicala e Marco Pacciarelli La collana "Archeologie. Temi, contesti, materiali" è indirizzata allo studio delle civiltà dell'Italia peninsulare e delle isole adiacenti, in consonanza con gli obiettivi del Centro Interdipartimentale per gli Studi sulla Magna Grecia cui afferisce. Il programma editoriale, aperto a diversi ambiti tema-tici e metodologici, intende proporre lavori monografici e miscellanei, maturati nell'ambito di programmi di ricerca individuali e di équipe, valorizzando le esperienze di carattere interdisciplina-re e le proposte delle risorse più giovani dell'archeologia. Il titolo e l'idea di questa collana nascono a margine di una stimolante esperienza condivisa con gli studenti federiciani, a partire dal 2010, volta ad integrare la formazione delle discipline archeologiche con saperi diversi, da quelli scientifi-ci e naturalistici a quelli sperimentali, fino alle diverse dimensioni della professione. A tale prospet-tiva, che ci si augura possa essere sempre più diffusa nella formazione universitaria, questa collana intende apportare un nuovo contributo. In prima di copertina: Pian della Tirena, Nocera Terinese (Cz) (European Space Imaging, 2005); in quarta di copertina: Punta di Zambrone, area C, fossato difensivo, statuetta d'avorio minoica (probabilmente d'età neopalaziale) rinvenuta negli strati di riempimento del Bronzo recente (foto di Juraj Liptàk).

Mykenische Keramik in der Rhodopenregion. Herkunft, regionaler Kontext und sozialökonomische Grundlagen

Archaeologia Austriaca

Dieser Beitrag behandelt mykenische Keramik aus den Siedlungen von Dragojna in den Rhodopen und K... more Dieser Beitrag behandelt mykenische Keramik aus den Siedlungen von Dragojna in den Rhodopen und Koprivlen im Mestatal. Die Produktionsregionen der Gefäße konnten mittels Neutronenaktivierungsanalyse (NAA) bestimmt werden, wobei die früheren Resultate zu Dragojna hier den neuen Ergebnissen zu Koprivlen gegenüber gestellt werden. Sie bieten Gelegenheit, die Entwicklung der Kontakte zwischen dem Ostbalkanraum und der Nordägäis wie auch dem mykenischen Griechenland einer Neubewertung zu unterziehen. Es zeichnen sich zwei ökonomisch-historische Perioden ab. Die frühere umfasst die Phasen SH IIB und SH IIIA1 und zeichnet sich durch den Import mykenischer Keramik wie auch mykenischer Waffen aus den Gebieten des sich etablierenden und expandierenden mykenischen Palaststaats im Rahmen gerichteter, direkter Austauschkontakte aus. Diese könnten mit dem Goldabbau in den Rhodopen zusammenhängen. Die jüngere Periode dauerte etwa von SH IIIB bis SH IIIC Früh. Zu dieser Zeit gelangte mykenische Keramik aus unterschiedlichen Produktionsregionen in den Ostbalkanraum, teils aus nordägäischen Werkstätten, teils aus dem mykenischen Süden. Importe oder Imitationen spätpalast-oder nachpalastzeitlicher Waffen sind hingegen nicht belegt.

The Sea Peoples after Three Millennia: Possibilities and Limitations of Historical Reconstruction

P. Fischer/T. Bürge (eds), “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries BCE. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 35, 2017

The Sea Peoples after Three Millennia: Possibilities and Limitations of Historical Reconstruction... more The Sea Peoples after Three Millennia: Possibilities and Limitations of Historical Reconstruction. In: P. Fischer/T. Bürge (eds), “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries BCE. Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 35 (Vienna 2017) 23–42.

Cooking Vessels from Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Local Traditions, Western and Eastern Innovations

J. Hruby/D. Trusty (eds), From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, 2017

R. Jung (with a contribution by H. Mommsen), Cooking Vessels from Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Local T... more

UAV-based topographic surveying at Punta di Zambrone (Italy) 2014

by PD Prof. Dr. Marco Block-Berlitz, Benjamin Gehmlich, Niklaas Görsch, Benjamin Ducke, and Reinhard Jung

In addition to the presentation of the project at the conference, we again created a small video ... more

Punta di Zambrone I. 1200 BCE – a Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece. Oriental and European Archaeology 17

https://austriaca.at/9783700189459

2200 BC – Ein Klimasturz als Ursache für den Zerfall der Alten Welt? 2200 BC – A climatic breakdown as a cause for the collapse of the old world? 7. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 23. bis 26. Oktober 2014 in Halle (Saale)

by Harald Meller, Reinhard Jung, and Roberto Risch

H. Meller, H. W. Arz, R. Jung und R. Risch (Hrsg.), 2200 BC – Ein Klimasturz als Ursache für den ... more H. Meller, H. W. Arz, R. Jung und R. Risch (Hrsg.), 2200 BC – Ein Klimasturz als Ursache für den Zerfall der Alten Welt? 2200 BC – A climatic breakdown as a cause for the collapse of the old world? 7. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 23. bis 26. Oktober 2014 in Halle (Saale). Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 12 (Halle [Saale] 2015).

2200 BC – A climatic breakdown as a cause for the collapse of the Old World?

by Roberto Risch, Helge Arz, Reinhard Jung, and Harald Meller

Preface and contents of the conference proceedings of the 7th Archaeological Conference of Centra... more

Rich and Poor - Competing for resources in prehistoric societies

by Roberto Risch, Reinhard Jung, and Harald Meller

The 8th international Archaeological Conference of Central Germany was concerned with the topic »... more The 8th international Archaeological Conference of Central Germany was concerned with the topic »Rich and Poor. Competing for resources in prehistory«. The collected essays can once again be presented as a two volume publication within one year after the conference. The question of »Rich and Poor«, in other words of social inequality, is one of the fundamental questions in the development of human societies, at least since the beginning of recorded history. Already the oldest recorded human myth – the Epic of Gilgamesh – shows that this condition was also seen as a fundamental social problem. Since then, numerous models have been developed to compensate for inequality without making it disappear. To this day it is to a greater or lesser degree still part of the reality of social life. But has this always been the case? In the present two volumes, different theoretical approaches and case studies explore the origins and the implications of an unequal access to natural as well as social resources.

Analysing pottery

by Barbara Horejs, Reinhard Jung, Peter Pavúk, and Klara Sabatova

Commenius University Bratislava

Archaeologists working on ceramic finds from long-term, large-scale excavations all face similar ... more Archaeologists working on ceramic finds from long-term, large-scale excavations all face similar problems: heaps of pottery from hundreds of contexts of diverse quality, more often than not re-deposited in a secondary or even tertiary position. There can be no general approach since each site has its own specific characteristics, be it a flat settlement lasting just a couple of generations or a tell-settlement in use for millennia. Likewise, pottery with simple or no decoration must be viewed from a different perspective than pottery with complex decoration. Hand-made pottery will pose different problems to mass-produced wheel-thrown ceramics and sherds from a settlement must be treated in yet another way than whole pots from a cemetery.

Gimatzidis, S. and R. Jung, eds. 2021. The Critique of Archaeological Economy. Berlin: Springer.

by Stefanos Gimatzidis and Reinhard Jung

The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this p... more

Arm und Reich – Zur Ressourcenverteilung in prähistorischen Gesellschaften. Rich and Poor - Competing for resources in prehistoric societies. 8. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 22. bis 24. Oktober 2015 in Halle (Saale)

by Harald Meller, Roberto Risch, and Reinhard Jung

H. Meller/H. P. Hahn/R. Jung/R. Risch (Hrsg.), Arm und Reich – Zur Ressourcenverteilung in prähis... more H. Meller/H. P. Hahn/R. Jung/R. Risch (Hrsg.), Arm und Reich – Zur Ressourcenverteilung in prähistorischen Gesellschaften. Rich and Poor - Competing for resources in prehistoric societies. 8. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 22. bis 24. Oktober 2015 in Halle (Saale). Tagungen des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte Halle 14 (Halle [Saale] 2016).

THE CRITIQUE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL ECONOMY. A SYMPOSIUM

by Stefanos Gimatzidis and Reinhard Jung

Indagini archeometriche sulla ceramica d’impasto di Punta di Zambrone, Giornata di studio: Österreichische Archäologie in Italien, Österreichisches Historisches Institut, Roma, 14.5.2018.

by Pamela Fragnoli and Reinhard Jung

Il regno di Aḫḫijawa. I Micenei e la Sicilia

by Anita Crispino and Reinhard Jung

Catalogo della Mostra. Siracusa museo "Paolo Orsi" 11 maggio - 9 ottobre 2024. Divisa in otto sez... more Catalogo della Mostra. Siracusa museo "Paolo Orsi" 11 maggio - 9 ottobre 2024.
Divisa in otto sezioni, nasce come approfondimento di conoscenza della straordinaria civiltà, ricordata nei testi ittiti col nome di Aḫḫijawa, che, intorno alla metà del II millennio a.C., prende forma nella Grecia continentale, definita micenea dal nome del più importante sito di questa fase, Micene in Argolide. Essa occuperà l’intero arco della tarda età del Bronzo in Grecia, tra il XVII/ XVI e l’XI sec. a.C., definito Tardo Elladico.

Le tematiche in cui è suddiviso il progetto sono dedicate agli aspetti caratteristici della società micenea tramite testimonianze della cultura materiale che meglio potessero riflettere la ricchezza e la complessità sociale in questa fase della storia del Mediterraneo.

Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos. Report on the 2014-2019 Campaigns - Aegis 24 (2023)

by Joachim Bretschneider, Jan Driessen, Reinhard Jung, Ioanna Kostopoulou, Nicolas Kress, Greta Jans, Francesca Porta, Thérèse Claeys, Florence Gaignerot-Driessen, Sylviane Déderix, and Ilaria Caloi

Aegis 24, 2023

The site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos, located in Larnaka Bay in south-eastern Cyprus, was explored on d... more The site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos, located in Larnaka Bay in south-eastern Cyprus, was explored on different occasions but continues to be of archaeological interest, in part because it is one of the few settlements that was occupied for a relatively short period during what are called the ‘Crisis Years’ of the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 1200 BCE). The ethnic mix of its material culture is also astonishing, with imports from Mycenaean Greece, Minoan Crete, Nuragic Sardinia, Hittite Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt—a variety unparalleled at other contemporary Cypriot settlements. Since 2014, an international team consisting of members of the University of Ghent and Louvain in Belgium and of the Mediterranean Archaeological Society in Heraklion, Crete, has continued its exploration, concentrating on different areas of the 7-hectare hill. The aim of the new excavations is to obtain a better understanding of the social structure and internal organization of the site and of its importance for the continuing discussions on migration, interaction, and acculturation, which typify the late 13th and early 12th centuries BCE in the Eastern Mediterranean. 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.