Athena ReviewJournal of Archaeology, History, and Exploration

Volume 3, no.1

Byzantine Cultures, East and West2001

Byzantine world

  • Byzantine historians, Procopius and Anna Comnena
by James Allan Evans


Recent Finds

  • Newly-found hominids Orrorin, Kenyanththropus
  • Early Stone Age  termite hunting in South Africa
  • Early Roots of  agriculture in Panama
  •  Stonehenge Revisited
  • New technology to decipher Herculaneum papyrus texts
  • Earliest DNA evidence for malaria, from 5th c AD Rome
  • Buddhist monuments destroyed by Taliban in Afghanistan
  • Giant fish weirs in Bolivia

Byzantine relief

Museum Reviews:
  • Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies reviewed by Justin Lev-Tov
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art , Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art - reviewed by Michele A. Miller
  • Thessaloniki, Greece: The Museum of Byzantine Culture


Feature Articles
by James Allan Evans
  • Byzantine Patronage and the Ancient Past Case Studies in Medieval Greece  
by Sarah T. Brooks
  • Early Byzantine Architecture and Art in Bulgaria
by Dimitar Ovcharov and Nicolai Ovcharov

  • Ravenna: Last center of the Western Roman Empire
 Guide to major Byzantine mosaic sites

  • Istanbul: City of Constantine, Shrine of Holy Wisdom
On Roman Constantinople, and the Basilica of Hagia Sophia

11c AD Mosaic in Hagia Sophia

  • Venice, Torcello, and Murano: Island Sanctuaries in the Lagoon

San Marco and commerce amid the canals

  • Aquileia and Grado, Italy: Roman Ports and Paleochristian Colonies
Major precursors to Venice, with  biographic  mosaics
  • Milan: Basilica of St. Ambrose 
Early Christian sanctuary founded on the tombs of two martyrs  in Roman Mediolanum

Documentary Articles

  • Pomp and Splendor: Religious Textiles from the Armenian Church Collections in Istanbul

by Marlene R. Breu and Ronald Marchese


Book Reviews:
  • Models for the Millenium: Great Basin Anthropology Today  edited by Charlotte Beck; reviewed by Dennis L. Jenkins
  • Prehistoric Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands: Bioarchaeological Reconstruction and Interpretation  edited by Brian E. Hemphill and Clark Spencer Larsen;  reviewed by Dennis L. Jenkins
  • Intermountain Archaeology edited by David B. Madsen and Michael D. Metcalf; reviewed by Dennis L. Jenkins
  • Newberry Crater: A Ten-Thousand-Year Record of Human Occupation and Enrinvornmental Change in the Basin-Plateau Borderlands by Thomas J. Connally et al.;
  • The Battles of Armageddon: Meggido and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age by Eric H. Cline; reviewed by Michele A. Miller

 

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Archaeology on the Internet:
  •  Byzantine web sites
  • Khotan and the silk road


All articles listed above are contained, in their complete form, in the printed issue.

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