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Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese (2022)
Book
Hodkinson, S., & Gallou, C. (Eds.). (2022). Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales

A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Spartan and... Read More about Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese.

Southern Laconia in the Middle and Earlier Late Bronze Age. Pottery from Pavlopetri and other sites (2022)
Book Chapter
Gallou, C., Cavanagh, W., Spondylis, I., & Henderson, J. (2022). Southern Laconia in the Middle and Earlier Late Bronze Age. Pottery from Pavlopetri and other sites. In C. Wiersma, & M. P. TSouli (Eds.), Middle and Late Helladic Laconia: competing principalities? (33-45). Leiden: Sidestone Press

The underwater site of Pavlopetri has most recently been investigated by the joint project of the Ephoreia for Underwater Archaeology and the British School at Athens which conducted field seasons in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In addition to a survey of th... Read More about Southern Laconia in the Middle and Earlier Late Bronze Age. Pottery from Pavlopetri and other sites.

Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean (2020)
Book Chapter
Gallou, C. (2020). Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean. In L. Beaumont, M. Dillon, & N. Harrington (Eds.), Childhood in antiquity: perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean. Routledge

The study of children and childhood remains largely marginalised in the archaeology of the prehistoric Aegean. Thus, this study aims to make Mycenaean children visible in archaeological research by discussing the treatment of non-adults at death in m... Read More about Children and death in the Bronze and early Iron Age Aegean.

Of white hair and feeding bottles: exploring children-elderly interactions in prehistoric Aegean (2018)
Book Chapter
Gallou, C. (in press). Of white hair and feeding bottles: exploring children-elderly interactions in prehistoric Aegean. In G. Lillehammer, & E. Murphy (Eds.), Giving new meaning to cultural heritage – the old and the young in past societies. Stavanger Museum

Scholarship on age and gender in prehistoric Greece has taken an adult–centric approach with focus placed mostly on young to middle–aged men and women and, as a result, two significant age groups – children and the elderly – have been widely neglecte... Read More about Of white hair and feeding bottles: exploring children-elderly interactions in prehistoric Aegean.

Mycenaean skulls: “αμενηνά κάρηνα" or social actors in Late Helladic metaphysics and society? (2016)
Book Chapter
Gallou, C. (2016). Mycenaean skulls: “αμενηνά κάρηνα" or social actors in Late Helladic metaphysics and society?. In E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, & J. Weilhartner (Eds.), Metaphysis: ritual, myth and symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age: proceedings of the 15th International Aegean Conference, Vienna, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Aegean and Anatolia Department, Austrian Academy of Sciences ... Peeters

Bodily fragmentation with particular focus to the ceremonial removal and re-deposition of the skull, has formed part of a complex system of post-mortem rites and ancestor cults since prehistory; “a powerful statement that surfaces in the iconography,... Read More about Mycenaean skulls: “αμενηνά κάρηνα" or social actors in Late Helladic metaphysics and society?.