bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Review of liver transplantation candidacy and outcomes among patients who use cannabis: Is it time for a change in policy?
Authors: Yau Man Ting Kristina , Hussaini Trana , Yoshida Eric M
Published: November 2022

Background:

Recreational cannabis was legalized in Canada in 2018. A controversial contraindication for liver transplantation is cannabis. There is currently no consensus regarding cannabis use in liver transplant candidates. We aim to investigate liver transplantation candidacy and outcomes among cannabis users.

Methods:

English peer-reviewed studies on PubMed and Google Scholar were searched on September 9, 2022, using keywords including “cannabis,” “liver transplantation,” and their synonyms. Titles and abstracts were screened, followed by full texts. Reference lists were reviewed. Studies that investigated liver transplantation candidacy and outcomes among cannabis users were included.

Results:

The proportion of patients listed for liver transplantation was significantly less among cannabis users than among non-users. Time to listing was longer for cannabis users than non-users. The incidence of delisting was similar. There is an inconsistency between transplant centres regarding transplantation candidacy for cannabis users. While only 14% of Canadian centres had a policy in place and preferred candidates to abstain or decrease cannabis use before transplantation, a third of Canadian centres rejected cannabis users. Observational studies failed to demonstrate significant differences in patient survival between pre-transplantation cannabis users and non-users. However, self-reported mental health ratings were worse in post-transplantation cannabis users than in non-users and former users.

Conclusions:

Current observational data do not support a link between cannabis use and poor patient survival post-transplantation. However, high-quality prospective studies are needed to better elucidate the impact of cannabis use on liver transplantation outcomes. Liver transplant candidacy should be evaluated through a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach considering all relevant psychosocial factors.
Effects of advertising on problem gambling: Neural-cue reactivity as a possible underlying mechanism
Authors: García-Castro Javier , Cancela Ana , Martín-Cárdaba Miguel-Ángel
Published: November 2022

Problem gambling has recently been reclassified as a non-substance-associated behavioral addiction. To the associated vital impact (family, social, labor, and economic), we must add its increasing incidence in recent years, which has led to prioritizing the problem from the point of view of public health. Although the effects of advertising on gambling behavior have been explored since the second half of the twentieth century, there is a lack of research regarding its underlying mechanisms. Thus, the objective of this review is to present an update on the effects of advertisements on gambling attitudes and behavioral intentions, as well as to present the neurobiological correlates of gambling-related cues as a possible hypothesis for this effect. Advertisements in various formats may act both as a precipitating factor and as a maintenance factor for the gambling disorder, changing both attitudes and beliefs about gambling. Activation of brain areas related to reward, such as accumbens nucleus, to memory, such as hippocampus or amygdala, and to executive functions could be the underlying mechanism of this effect. Also, ads promoting responsible gambling do not appear to be effective in reducing behavior or encouraging self-control, but the available evidence is scarce. Therefore, the number of studies on this topic needs to increase. In addition, the available evidence questions the effectiveness of responsible gambling policies to promote self-control in this population, as well as to reduce the negative impact of this disorder, so future research on neural-cue reactivity to gambling-related stimuli may serve to improve the design of advertising strategies that increase the impact of these messages.
Factors affecting spiritual needs in patients with diabetic foot ulcers
Authors: Ardiyati Adelina Vidya
Published: November 2022

Diabetic foot ulcers are one of the chronic complications of diabetes, leading to disease complexity. As a result, DFU may provoke problems in fulfilling spiritual needs that affect the healing process. This study aimed to analyze the factors related to the spiritual needs of diabetic ulcer patients in Indonesia. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 104 diabetic foot ulcers patient. The patients were recruited from 5 cities in Indonesia using a purposive sampling method from June until August 2022. The instruments consisted of a sociodemographic characteristics form and the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) to explore patients' Spiritual needs. Then, bivariate and multivariate binary logistics were performed. There is a significant relationship between spiritual needs and age, marital status, length of the wound, and degree of diabetic ulcer (p < 0.05). It is recommended that healthcare workers need to pay attention to the factors that influence the spiritual needs of diabetic foot ulcer patients. 

Keywords: Diabetic foot ulcer; spiritual needs; community nursing; chronic illness; diabetes care
ISP - IFRO SLICE PROTEIN
Authors: Costa Guimarães Dyuly Kelry , Linhares de Araújo Micaely Raira , Zaire dos Santos Kethelin Vitória , Lopes de Barros Henrique , Rodrigues Miranda Marcio , Silva Kaio Alexandre da
Published: November 2022

Macromolecules are proteins formed by amino acids joined by peptide bonds, and can be described in different structural levels: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary. It’s possible to extract a small part of the three dimensional structure of the protein to be used as a ligand. However, the extraction of fragments by experimental methods is expensive and time-consuming. In this context, the development of a web service to extract fragments of three-dimensional proteins makes the process more assertive and less costly. The methods used for the development of the protein slicer web service were the Python programming language, and the Javascript, PHP and HTML languages are being used. And for the testing of the system, three-dimensional structures of proteins present in the RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) were used.
Amazon cities and climate change
Authors: Valois Ilsa M. , Cartaxo Elizabet F.
Published: November 2022

Manaus, due to the growth process it has undergone in recent decades, is among the cities with a high level of environmental vulnerability. According to the IPCC 6th Climate Change Report, the impacts of climate change will hit hardest the poor populations with limited adaptive capacity. This article shows the IPCC's warnings about the risks of global warming, the great inequalities in the distribution of Amazonian populations, and the seriousness of the increase in deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions that compromise the lives not only of the region's inhabitants, but of the planet as a whole. Moreover, it emphasizes the need for urgent solutions in order to contain the degradation process of the Amazon rainforest, actions that include defending the Amazonian biome and the objective and efficient confrontation of the problems of pollutant emissions, through energy efficiency practices.
Temporal dynamics of size spectrum of a fish population in neotropical reservoirs
Authors: Sereia Diesse Aparecida de Oliveira , Bueno Vanessa , Almeida Mara Cristina , Barros Ivaldete Tijolin , Baumgartner Gilmar , Benedito Evanilde
Published: November 2022

Studies on the size spectrum allow indirect inferences of how the energy flows from one organism to another. Assuming that the bottom-up is more intense than the top-down mechanism along the cascade of reservoirs, which limits the growth and development of individuals, we investigated the effect of a cascade of reservoirs in a neotropical basin on the stock and distribution of the population of Oligosarcus longirostris, a species at the top of the food chain. Samples were conducted quarterly in five reservoirs, from March 2004 to December 2008. Stock size was estimated by catch per unit effort (CPUE); to establish the size spectra slopes of fish, we used Pareto I model, and data was analyzed using univariate analysis of variance followed by Tukey's test. There was a higher proportion of smaller individuals in the first reservoir of the cascade, with a decline in this proportion along the succession of reservoirs in the cascade. It can be concluded that there is an effect of the reservoir cascade on the abundance and size of individuals of Oligosarcus longirostris.
Influence of G x E interaction on heterobeltiosis, combining ability and stability of multiple cross derivatives of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) amenable for HDPS
Authors: Murthy K. G. K. , Pradeep T.
Published: November 2022

An experiment was conducted in three different locations using 42 crosses derived by crossing six lines and seven testers in Line x Tester design to identify stable cotton genotypes amenable to a high-density planting system. The heterozygotes were found more stable due to individual buffering capacities over homozygotes. Strong association between heterobeltiosis and specific combining ability (sca) was shown by the hybrids MC 4-3 x MC 3-2, MC 4-3 x MC 22-2, MC 4-3 x NH 630, MC 5-1 x MC 11-1 and MC 5-1 x NH 630 while MC 17-6 x MC 17-1, MC 4-3 x MC 3-2, MC 16-3 x MC 17-2 had out yielded homozygous parents in poor environments and exhibited heterosis and sca effects in desirable direction for short compact characters.
Molecular marker assisted confirmation of hybrids in coconut (Cocos nucifera L.)
Authors: Sudha R. , Samsudeen K. , Rajesh M.K. , Niral V.
Published: November 2022

Hybrid authentication is important in the selection of good quality hybrid seedlings in coconut before distribution to various stakeholders. Fourteen coconut specific SSR primer pairs were initially used to screen parental lines used in coconut hybrid nut production for polymorphism. Primers capable of differentiating parents, CncirE2 and CnCirE10 were then utilized to screen seedlings in the coconut nursery to identify true hybrids based on the complementary banding pattern of both male and female parents
Identification and validation of genetic locus linked to flavonoid and anthocyanin content in rice using Bulk Segregant Analysis
Authors: Fathima M. Almas , Geetha S. , Hemalatha M. , Amudha K.
Published: November 2022

A study was undertaken to identify the genetic locus linked with the therapeutic traits, viz., flavonoid and anthocyanin contents in rice grains by Bulk Segregant Analysis using the F2 population derived from the cross, ADT(R)48/Kavuni. The donor for high anthocyanin and flavonoid content was Kavuni, one of the popular landraces of Tamil Nadu, which exists in various forms with respect to grain pigmentation. Through this study, three linked SSR markers, namely, RM228 (Chromosome 10) for flavonoid and anthocyanin content, RM5348 (Chromosome 10) for flavonoid content, and RM297 (Chromosome 1) for anthocyanin content, were identified. Among these markers, RM5348 was identified as a novel marker, lies in the genomic region of the gene encoding the enzyme flavonoid 3’-monooxygenase indicating more reliability. The association of these identified markers was further validated through Single Marker Analysis (SMA), and the results confirmed the strong association of these markers with the respective traits in various forms of Kavuni, other pigmented landraces, and improved cultivars. However, the validation must also be done in a population with another genetic background to prove the stern association of these markers with the traits.
Об’єкти індустріальної та історичної спадщини Галковського та Шмаківського рудників
Authors: Лисоконь Ілля Олександрович
Published: November 2022

Актуальність науково-дослідницької роботи полягає в дослідженні історико-краєзнавчих пам’яток, об’єктів індустріальної та історичної спадщини колишніх рудників Галковського та Шмакова, які нині не існують, натомість окремі пам’ятки ще залишились, являючи собою доволі серйозний інтерес для місцевих краєзнавців, істориків, підлітків та громадян. З огляду транспортної інфраструктури, доступність і територіальна концентрація об’єктів спадщини надають перспективу для проведення загальних чи тематичних екскурсій за невеликий проміжок часу, навіть не використовуючи спеціального транспорту.
Evaluation of RISE II integrated social and behavior change activities in Niger: Baseline report
Authors: Dougherty Leanne , Turk Lynn Abu , Jani Nrupa , Dadi Chaibou
Published: November 2022

Breakthrough RESEARCH is conducting a mixed-methods study that includes quantitative methods to assess differential changes over time in key health outcomes associated with Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) II's integrated social and behavioral change (SBC) strategy and qualitative methods to explain how and why gender-related changes occurred or were associated with these changes. This technical report presents descriptive baseline findings for the quantitative portion of the evaluation. This information will support RISE II's Resilience Food Security Activity partners to understand how to tailor planned SBC approaches to address barriers to adopting targeted health behaviors.
Hubungan Faktor Lingkungan Dengan Kejadian Penyakit Demam Berdarah Dengue (DBD) di Kabupaten Majene
Authors: Rahmah Siti , Adiningsih Ridhayani
Published: November 2022

Penyebaran penyakit DBD dipengaruhi oleh 4 faktor yaitu perilaku masyarakat, faktor lingkungan (iklim), urbanisasi, dan ketersediaan air bersih. Informasi iklim dapat dijadikan sebagai masukan untuk menduga tingkat resiko kejadian penyakit Demam Berdarah Dengue pada suatu musim. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan faktor lingkungan dengan kejadian penyakit DBD di Kabupaten Majene.Jenis penelitian adalah studi ekologi. Subjek penelitiannya adalah semua data kasus DBD di Kabupaten Majene periode tahun 2016 – 2020. Variabel penelitian dikumpulkan dengan cara melakukan telaah dokumen terhadap laporan di Badan Meterologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) Sulawesi Barat dan Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten Majene. Variabel pada penelitian ini adalah kejadian penyakit Demam Berdarah Dengue (DBD) sebagai variabel terikat dan curah hujan, suhu udara, kelembaban udara, lama penyinaran matahari, dan kecepatan angin sebagai variabel bebas. Analisis data menggunakan uji korelasi Spearman.Ada hubungan antara kelembaban udara dengan kejadian penyakit DBD (p = 0,03) sedangkan tidak ada hubungan antara curah hujan (p = 0,91), suhu udara (p = 0,43), lama penyinaran matahari (p = 0,76), dan kecepatan angin (p = 0,08) dengan kejadian penyakit DBD. Kelembaban udara mempunyai pengaruh terhadap kejadian penyakit DBD.
The Argos Plain through its ages and my ages
Authors: Bintliff John
Published: November 2022

This article focusses on one of my favourite landscapes, the Plain of Argos, and my involvement with its Bronze Age landscape over a period of more than forty years. In 1972 I left Cambridge University at the start of my PhD, to begin gathering research data in the field in Greece, armed with not much more than the topic ‘The Prehistory of Greece’. However I did have one central methodology and indeed philosophy in my mind, acquired as a BA student at Cambridge during informal supervisions with Eric Higgs and subsequently on fieldwork with him or his research team in Israel and Italy. At this time, the start of the 1970s, Ecology was emerging from an obscure branch of Botany into a globally-significant approach to our place in a dynamic biosphere, and Higgs’ Palaeoeconomy Movement in Cambridge began to attract many other young PhD and Postdoctoral scholars in Archaeology who were dissatisfied with Culture History approaches.
‘Greek colonisation’ and Mediterranean networks: patterns of mobility and interaction at Pithekoussai
Authors: Donnellan Lieve
Published: November 2022

Pithekoussai, present-day Ischia, a small island in the Bay of Naples had completely escaped the attention of Antiquarians and government functionaries—some more, some less diligently excavating the many rich archaeological sites around Naples and the Vesuvius since the 17th century—until native resident and archaeologist Giorgio Buchner uncovered the first tombs, shortly after WW II, and with it, opened a previously neglected chapter in Greek history, that of ‘Euboean colonisation’. Since the discovery of Pithekoussai, scholarly attention for Greek, especially Euboean ‘colonisation’ has skyrocketed, and the Euboeans have been hailed as the first Greek prospectors, pioneers, the openers of the Mediterranean after the Dark Ages and the creators of the pivotal Greek institution of oversees colonisation—an institution which would transform the Greek world thoroughly. The increased attention for the Euboean colonisation movement helped define Greek colonial studies as a separate subject of study, after pioneering work by scholars such as that of Jean Bérard and Tom Dunbabin, who collected literary evidence and confronted it with the, at that time, scarcely known archaeological remains. Pithekoussai, however, has uninterruptedly been at the heart of studies and debates on ancient Greek ‘colonisation’.
Yiannis Papadatos and Chrysa Sofianou Livari Skiadi. A Minoan cemetery in southeast Crete. Volume I. Excavation and finds
Authors: Déderix Sylviane
Published: November 2022

The early 21st century is an exciting period for Minoan funerary studies. Over the last 15 years, a series of tombs and cemeteries that had been unearthed decades earlier have been extensively published, old excavated assemblages have been (re)studied, and new burial sites have been discovered. This profusion of fresh data has triggered a renewed interest in Minoan, and especially Prepalatial, mortuary practices. Fed by the theoretical, methodological, and scientific developments that took place in the archaeology of death from the 1980s onwards, recent studies offer novel perspectives on this enriched dataset. In this way, tomb types and grave goods are no longer seen as passive reflections of the status of the deceased; quite the contrary, it is now well acknowledged that funerary practices played an active role in the negotiation of social identities and relationships among the living.
Corien Wiersma. Building the Bronze Age: architectural and social change on the Greek mainland during Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I
Authors: Dakouri-Hild Anastasia
Published: November 2022

This book, a revised doctoral dissertation undertaken at the University of Groningen, is a welcome study on the neglected topic of domestic architecture in the eras preceding the palatial civilization of the Greek Mainland (in particular the EH III-LH I span). It is structured very much as a dissertation: an introduction setting out the goals, justification and spatiotemporal framework of the study; a survey of prior research on the topic of Mainland domestic architecture (Chapter 1); a theory of domestic architecture, the household and the overall context within which it is nested (community, nearby settlements, regional), and the methodology used for the data underpinning the study (from selection and collection to processing and analysis; Chapter 2); an analytical presentation of architectural remains by region (Thessaly, Phocis and Phthiotis, Boeotia, Euboea, Attica, Corinthia, the Argolid, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Arcadia and Achaia; Chapter 3); a synthesis of the architectural data by era (EH III, MH I-II, MH III-LH I; Chapter 4); an interpretative discussion of emerging patterns (on the regional, neighboring settlement, local community, individual household levels; Chapter 5); and a brief section presenting the conclusions (Chapter 6).
Theodosia Stefanidou-Tiveriou. Die lokalen Sarkophage aus Thessaloniki / Eleni Papagianni. Attische Sarkophage mit Eroten und Girlanden
Authors: Russell Ben
Published: November 2022

Theodosia Stefanidou-Tiveriou. Die lokalen Sarkophage aus Thessaloniki (Sarkophag-Studien 8). pp. xviii + 302, 10 p. of b/w figures, 100 p. of b/w plates. 2014. Ruhpolding: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen. ISBN 978-3-447-10240-7 €99.00. Eleni Papagianni. Attische Sarkophage mit Eroten und Girlanden (Sarkophag-Studien 9). pp. xxi + 195, 64 p. of b/w plates. 2016. Ruhpolding: Verlag Franz Philipp Rutzen. ISBN 978-3-447-10437-1 €88.00.
Iosif Hadjikyriako and Mia Gaia Trentin (eds). Cypriot cultural details: proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of Young Researchers in Cypriot Archaeology
Authors: Charalambos Paraskeva
Published: November 2022

Arguably the archaeology of Cyprus has in the past few decades grown to a subdiscipline of archaeology in its own right. Today, a new generation of researchers boldly extend the frontiers of Cypriot archaeology, as it seeks to explore different themes, pose novel questions and challenge longstanding views. The edited volume under review contains a total of 12 papers delivered by young researchers in the course of the 10th annual conference in Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA) held at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2010. Accordingly, the papers are the product of ongoing or recently concluded postgraduate, mostly doctoral, studies; they present novel approaches methodologically and theoretically, and exhibit a high degree of innovative thought. Spatially the papers focus on the island of Cyprus and sometimes broaden their view to include the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean cultural areas, while with regard to temporality they range from the Early Bronze Age to the 18th century AD. In terms of format the volume commences with a brief introduction by the editors followed by four sections encompassing select sets of issues, which are henceforth critically explored.
Rosa Maria Motta. Material culture and cultural identity: a study of Greek and Roman coins from Dora
Authors: Rutter Keith
Published: November 2022

This book studies the coinage of Dora, an ancient port city on the coast of Israel about 14 miles south of Haifa. As its title (Material Culture and Cultural Identity) suggests, the book concentrates on ‘all possible interpretations that contribute to the Dora narrative’ (p. 30). In fact, the book is heavy on theory, but it is a serious drawback that it does not provide the fundamental numismatic basis of a thoroughly revised, accurate and well-illustrated catalogue of the coins. The numismatic material in the book relies on an article by Meshorer, but we need a new catalogue both for its own sake and to justify elements in the discussion, for example, remarks about the commonness of various issues which occur from time to time, or the overall output of the mint.
New insights into the Upper Pleistocene archaeology of Northwestern Greece
Authors: Ligkovanlis S.
Published: November 2022

Northwestern Greece comprises one of the most important territories containing archaeological evidence on prehistoric hunter-gatherer activity in Southeastern Europe, having hosted, over the last fifty years, three generations of Palaeolithic researchers and also different schools of archaeological thought. This long-lasting activity, resulting in the identification and investigation of numerous sites yielding Palaeolithic finds, has in many cases created new methodologies of archaeological documentation and promoted the development of new ideas concerning both the material culture and its carriers.
Preserving memory in Minoan Crete Filled-in bench and platform deposits from the First Palace of Phaistos
Authors: Caloi Ilaria
Published: November 2022

Recent studies in Aegean prehistory have started to deal more intensively with the practice of accumulated artefacts in structured depositions and to see these as mnemonic records, reflecting people’s desire to preserve the memory of some specific events.
Macedonian lionesses: Herakles and lion jewelry in elite female dress (c. 325–275 BCE)
Authors: Castor Alexis Q.
Published: November 2022

Lions, of all animal quarry, rank among the most daunting and dangerous prey for hunters. Heroes and rulers demonstrated their physical strength in lion hunts and depicted them in historical records and images as a way to affirm their authority. Lions and the iconic lion-slayer Herakles, who was important in Macedonia as the ancestor of the royal Argead clan, became especially prominent in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Macedonian art.
Leslie Preston Day, HeidiM.C. Dierckx, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, Geraldine C. Gesell, Kevin T. Glowacki, Nancy L. Klein, David S. Reese and Lynn M. Snyder. Kavousi IIC: The Late Minoan IIIC Settlement at Vronda. Specialist Reports and Analyses. Kavousi
Authors: Schoep Ilse
Published: November 2022

This is the third volume in the series publishing the cleaning and excavation of the site of Vronda in the Kavousi area. The first volume, Kavousi IIA, was devoted to the excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of the houses and their finds on the summit of the Vronda ridge (Buildings A-B, C-D, J-K, and Q), along with earlier (Building P) and later (Building R) structures around them. The second volume, Kavousi IIB , focuses on the buildings on the slopes of the Vronda ridge (Building Complexes E, I-O-N, and L-M, Building F, the pottery kiln, as well as other areas excavated on the periphery). The present volume brings the evidence from all houses together and provides a reconstruction of life and society at Vronda in the LM IIIC period.
Alexander Heinemann. Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkegeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.
Authors: Rodríguez Pérez Diana
Published: November 2022

Heinemann’s lavishly illustrated book aims first and foremost to study the images of Dionysos and his cortège on symposium ware during the 5th century BC in their social and ritual contexts. The rationale behind the research is the belief that the decoration deployed on figured pottery is not arbitrary but is intimately and meaningfully intertwined with the use of the vase. Furthermore, the meanings of such imagery are not a prioristic but need to be retrieved by the viewer every time s/he interacts with the object, in an everlasting ‘battle’ between object and subject. Retrieving the potential resonance of such iconography to a given viewer requires in turn an examination of the communication processes—i.e. rituals, plays, etc.—in which the symposium ware is inserted and the particular needs it helped fulfill, which are, unfortunately, lost to us.
Franco de Angelis. Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily. A Social and Economic History.
Authors: Donnellan Lieve
Published: November 2022

An increase in studies and chapters devoted to the economic history of the Ancient World has become apparent a decade since the landmark publication of The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (ed. Walter Scheidel; Ian Morris; Richard P. Saller, Cambridge University Press 2007). Falling within this trend are two recent books on regional Classical economies. What separates these books from other ancient economic narratives is their focus on areas that have long been considered marginal, and therefore uninteresting, in their respective cultural spheres: Sicily as periphery of the Greek world and the Sarmatian region of the Eurasian steppe as frontier of the Classical World. Indeed, as both authors stress independently from each other, they are the first to study the economy of these regions in a comprehensive way. Past scholarship has focused exclusively on the core lands of the Classical World or on subdivisions of the economy (e.g. coinage) of the peripheries.
Manolis Korres. The Odeion Roof of Herodes Atticus and other Giant Spans.
Authors: Russell Ben
Published: November 2022

The Odeion of Herodes Atticus, built between AD 160 and 169, is a looming hulk of a structure. It could have housed, at a reasonable estimate, around 6000 spectators. Despite its size and relatively good state of preservation, the building remains something of an enigma. In particular, the thorny issue of whether it was roofed, open-air, or partially covered in some way has rumbled on for well over one hundred years. Any roof would have had to cover a space measuring c. 83m east-west and c. 56m north-south, which would make it the largest roof span known from antiquity. Undeterred by the staggering scale of the undertaking, Manolis Korres here presents his case for a roof. In this beautifully put together, stunningly illustrated volume, Korres combines careful study of the structural remains with detailed discussion of the practicalities of creating a roof of this scale. It would take a structural engineer to provide a full appraisal of many of the more technical aspects of Korres’ reconstruction and so, in what follows, I will focus primarily on his archaeological and architectural observations.
Alexandra Eppinger. Hercules in der Spätantike. Die Rolle des Heros im Spannungsfeld von Heidentum und Christentum
Authors: Vos Gary
Published: November 2022

In this revised thesis by Alexandra Eppinger (hereafter ‘E.’), defended at the University of Heidelberg in 2013, the ubiquity of Heracles/Hercules in the art, archaeology, and literature of ‘the long late antiquity’ (defined as c. 250-600 AD) is ascribed to a desire by individuals or communities – be they pagan or not – to come across as ‘learned’, to show off their status, and/or to have something to talk about. At the same time the book attempts to chart how Christians and non-Christians reacted to Hercules (as I shall call him in the remainder of this review). It must be said at the outset that the value of E.’s book lies in the synthesis of a great variety of source-material that allows us to see the late-antique reception of Hercules in action, as it were, even if the presentation of the material sometimes hampers her argument and leads to occasional repetitions that easily could have been avoided. Undoubtedly, this is partly due to the ambitious goal of cataloguing reactions to Hercules in such a diverse and dynamic period and the occasional wavering between the two objectives that the book has set itself. Despite this, Hercules in der Spätantike does many things well.
Michalis Karambinis. The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times
Authors: Intagliata Emanuele E.
Published: November 2022

The island of Skyros presents the results of a PhD research project conducted at Leiden University by M. Karambinis, a native of Skyros, who worked for the Archaeological Ephorate of Euboea from 2007 to 2015. It offers a comprehensive overview of the history and archaeology of Skyros from Late Roman to early modern time. The work integrates data retrieved from past archaeological works, new intensive and extensive surveys of the island and historical sources. This all-encompassing approach to the archaeological and historical record of the island means that more unusual materials for the archaeologist, such as Ottoman costumes and furniture, are also included in Karambinis’ analysis. The book is divided into four Parts: 1. Background and historical data, 2. The archaeological survey: methodology and comparisons, 3. The archaeological survey: the sites, and 4. Interpretational synthesis. It also includes four appendices, namely: A. Gazeteer of archaeological sites, B. Catalogue of pottery, C. Catalogue of churches (Chora and suburbs), D. The synoptic Ottoman tax register (icmal) of the year 1670/1 for Skyros. It concludes with a bibliography, a summary in Dutch and notes about the authors. In total, this rather voluminous book includes 13 chapters and an introduction.
Laura Gawlinski. The Athenian Agora Museum Guide
Authors: Newman Alana N.
Published: November 2022

Between 1953 and 1956 the Hellenistic Stoa of Attalos was converted into a museum. It currently houses the finds from excavations carried out by the American School of Classical Studies in the Athenian agora since 1931. Laura Gawlinski’s The Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a well-written guidebook to this unique museum. The aim of this book is to provide the reader with supplementary historical, archaeological, and cultural information not only about the artefacts displayed in the museum, but also about the building itself. Indeed, Gawlinski makes a commendable effort to emphasise the distinct vantage point, that the visitor has to experience finds from the agora in a restored building from the ancient site.
David Abulafia (ed.) The Mediterranean in History.
Authors: Bintliff John
Published: November 2022

David Abulafia is a very familiar figure in the Medieval history of the Mediterranean, and this popular synthesis of the story of the region since Prehistory takes us up to 2000. Generally the chapters are well-written, especially those parts in his own fluent hand, and being a Thames and Hudson large format book, it is (as usual) spendidly illustrated, especially in colour.
Grinding cereals and pulses in the Neolithic site of Kleitos: an experimental investigation of microconglomerate grinding equipment, final products and use wear
Authors: Chondrou D. , Valamoti S. M. , Procopiou H. , Papadopoulou L.
Published: November 2022

Stone grinding tools (i.e. querns or grinding stones / millstones / metates and handstones or grinders / upper milling stones / manos) constitute an important part of the material culture recovered in prehistoric excavations. These implements, as well as the technological category in which they are traditionally attributed, known by the generic term ‘ground stone tools’, and by the more recently proposed term ‘macrolithic tools’, received the interest they deserve not long ago, through specialized studies.
Diet and Social Divisions in Protohistoric Greece: Integrating Analyses of stable Isotopes and Mortuary Practices
Authors: Panagiotopoulou E. , Van der Plicht J. , Papathanasiou A. , Voutsaki S. , Katakouta S. , Intzesiloglou A. , Arachoviti P.
Published: November 2022

The Early Iron Age (EIA, 11th – 8th century BC) in Greece is the transitional period following the end of the Mycenaean civilisation. The first half of this period is the so-called Protogeometric period (11th – 10th century BC) during which the mainland communities had to recover from the collapse of the Mycenaean palatial system, a centralised economic system of a stratified society. Social and economic structures were both severely damaged in the 12th century BC, resulting in various changes in technology, material culture and mortuary practices across the entire Aegean in the ensuing periods. These changes also affected the region of Thessaly, located at the northern margin of the Mycenaean world.
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Mycenaeans, Migration, and Mobility in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean
Authors: Middleton Guy D.
Published: November 2022

A recent paper argues that climate change at the end of the Late Bronze Age caused mass migrations, ‘vast movements of population’, out of the Balkans into Greece and Anatolia, with migrants destroying cities and states as they went – causing the collapse of Late Bronze Age societies such as the Mycenaeans. These migrants then became the Sea Peoples, who gathered more followers from the Aegean and set off for the eastern Mediterranean, destroying as they went, until they were finally defeated by Ramesses III in Egypt. The hypothesis, as with other similar arguments in the past, links together the history of the eastern Mediterranean, from Greece and Anatolia to Cyprus and the Levant and Egypt in one ‘global’ narrative.
Aphrodite Pandemos at Naukratis Revisited: The Goddess and her Civic Function in the Context of an Archaic Emporion
Authors: Daniels Megan J.
Published: November 2022

Aphrodite Pandemos (‘all the people’) is a curious character in Greek religious thought: distinguished from her older and loftier counterpart, Aphrodite Ourania (‘heavenly’), through her linkage to more ‘common’ forms of love, namely heterosexual union, she was also associated with civic cohesion and the semi-mythical origins of the Athenian city-state. Yet our earliest evidence for the worship of Aphrodite Pandemos comes not from Athens but from Naukratis – a settlement nestled in the Nile Delta, resulting from a joint endeavour by a number of Greek city-states in the late 7th century BC under the Saite pharaohs. Previous scholarly considerations of Aphrodite Pandemos at Naukratis downplayed her civic associations largely based on the ambiguous political status of Naukratis, and instead concentrated on her role as a type of ‘general access’ goddess to the mixed communities commonly found in trading settlements.
Julie Hruby and Debra Trusty (eds). From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This book had its origin in a panel held at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2014; the papers given there, suitably adapted for publication, have been added to by contributions from scholars working on comparable material. All chapters are substantial, and apart from the short introduction and finale all are illustrated with a range of photographs, drawings, tables and sometimes thin-sections. It is well-presented, with a colourful cover showing, on the front, modern replicas of Minoan-style cooking pots, made by Jerolyn Morrison, one of the contributors to this book, in use.
Personified vulva, ritual obscenity, and Baubo
Authors: Karatas Aynur-Michèle-Sara
Published: November 2022

Several clay figurines dating to the Hellenistic period from the sanctuaries of Demeter at Priene and Samos depict the lower part of naked female bodies with arms and legs (Figures 1–2). The facial features are represented on the stomach of the figurines. One single clay figurine from Erythrai and two from the sanctuary of Demeter at Mytilene represent the facial features on the stomach without arms and legs (Figure 3). The iconography of the clay figurines recalls the obscene gesture of Iambe, who lifted up her skirt and exposed her genitals (Hom. Hymn Dem. 199–205). The obscene act of Iambe offered an explanation for ritual mockery. Depending on the festival, ritual mockery was performed by men and women, or only by women. Despite the significance of ritual mockery for the Eleusinian cult, Iambe/Baubo is only mentioned in a few inscriptions dedicated outside Attica. The present paper aims to analyse the so-called clay figurines of Baubo. Before discussing the clay figurines, I will first reconsider the written sources on Iambe and Baubo dating to the Archaic and later periods. Given the fact that several papers discuss most written sources on Baubo, ritual mockery, and lifting up the skirt, I will focus on selected written sources on Baubo and ritual mockery performed at the festivals of Demeter.
Metaxia Tsipopoulou. Petras, Siteia I. A Minoan Palatial Settlement in Eastern Crete. Excavation of Houses I.1 and I.2.
Authors: Schoep Ilse
Published: November 2022

This volume is the third in a series that publishes the final results of the excavations at Petras. The first volume was dedicated to the Cretan Hieroglyphic archive from the palace, the second to the proceedings of the first Petras symposium that took place in 2010. Since the publication of the volume under review in 2016, the second Petras symposium that took place in 2015 has also been published.
Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorova and Philip W. Stockhammer (eds). Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans.
Authors: Souvatzi Stella
Published: November 2022

Food practices and their social implications are an important focus of investigation for a wide range of disciplines. In anthropology in particular the cross-cultural importance of meals or of the exchange of food and substances in creating and enduring social bonds gained attention already in Malinowski’s era and has remained a central theme of inquiry ever since. It is now widely acknowledged that food practices play an active role in the negotiation of social identities, relationships and distinctions at different social scales. In archaeology, the economic dimensions of subsistence practices have always held an interest, but food itself was not recognised as a significant analytical or theoretical concept until recently. Since the 2000s, however, there is a growing interest in the cultural and social analysis of food, accompanied by a surge of novel perspectives and methods in palaeo-botanical, zoo-archaeological, palaeo-anthropological and material culture research, including the regions in question here.
S. Rebecca Martin. The Art of Contact. Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art.
Authors: Donnellan Lieve
Published: November 2022

Two cartoons in a much-cited handbook on archaeological theory depict the practitioners of the discipline in 1988 and again, in 1998. The first cartoon on the discipline in 1988, shows a ferocious fight going on between representatives of different theoretical approaches. Situated at the periphery are, on the side, confused members of the public, and, on the other side, turned with his back to the rest of the world, a bearded pipe-smoking Classical Archaeologist, browsing a ‘monumental’ publication while seated on another pile of Classical Archaeology books. The next cartoon shows the discipline ten years later, in 1998. The fight at the core has dissolved and made place for stimulating parallel debates between factions in which members of the public participate. Untroubled and still seated on his pile of books, is the same bearded pipe-smoking Classical Archaeologist.
Jeremy McInerny. Greece in the ancient world / Richard T. Neer. Art and archaeology of the Greek world. A new history, c.2500-c.150 BCE
Authors: Cartledge Paul
Published: November 2022

Jeremy McInerny. Greece in the ancient world. pp. 368, 273 colour illustrations. 2018. London and New York: Thames andHudson. ISBN 978–0–500–25226–0. £35
Richard T. Neer. Art and archaeology of the Greek world. A new history, c.2500-c.150 BCE. Second edition. pp. 408, 559 colourillustrations. 2019. London and New York: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978–0–500–052082. £45
Marisa Marthari, Colin Renfrew and Michael J. Boyd (eds). Beyond the Cyclades. Early Cycladic sculpture in context from mainland Greece, the north and east Aegean. pp. 328, 265 b/w ills, 8 tables. 2019. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9-781-58925-063-2, hardbac
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This is the third in a series produced to publish a sequence of symposia in Athens that started in 2014 with ‘Cycladic Sculpture in Context’. Such ‘sculpture’ consists in all cases of figurines (rarely very large, although a few are more like statuettes or even, very rarely, something like life size). These figurines are almost entirely of stone, generally white marble, and belong to a well-known tradition that had its home in the EBA (Early Bronze Age) Cyclades, of which the ‘folded-arm figurine’ (FAF) is an internationally recognised type. Until recently, a large proportion of this class of material was represented by holdings in museum and private collections, generally the results of looting and often lacking even a claimed provenance. However, the momentous discoveries in excavations on Keros, a small island south-east of Naxos that was an early reported source of such material, have revolutionised our view of the whole class and the part they played in Cycladic EB culture. The lively debate on their interpretation and significance that followed the new discoveries led to the series of symposia in Athens, that was deliberately focused on the proportion of the material that could be given an archaeological context or at least a secure provenance. Previously published volumes have concerned the finds with provenances in the Cyclades and in Crete; this volume incorporates examples from the Greek mainland, other Aegean islands – mainly the Dodecanese, but there are examples from Skyros and Lesbos – and a solitary find from Miletus, seemingly ‘recontextualised’ in a phase succeeding the EBA.
Sarah C. Murray, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy. Imports, Trade and Institutions 1300–700 BCE.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This book derives from a PhD dissertation defended at Stanford University in 2013, added to by further research in following years. It treats a topic of considerable importance in any discussion of the degree of continuity between the civilisations of the Aegean Bronze Age and that of the early Greeks, which was becoming well established in the eighth century BC (all dates cited subsequently are BC), and the reality or otherwise of an intervening ‘dark age’.
Chrysanthi Gallou, Death in Mycenaean Laconia. A Silent Place.
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This substantial study developed out of Gallou’s postdoctoral project on the Mycenaean cemeteries of Epidavros Limera, a site on the east Laconian coast that functioned as a major port in historical times. Hence, it very usefully sorts out the exceptionally complicated history of excavations at that site (generally undertaken in response to repeated tomb robbery) and in Chapter 4 publishes all the pottery in Sparta Museum from the excavations, which covers the whole chronological range from the very beginning of the Mycenaean development, in types considered transitional from Middle Helladic, to the latest-looking types of Late Helladic IIIC, often classified, as here, as Submycenaean (in the course of this Gallou sorts out certain and likely confusions involving the recording of some of the pottery).
James C. Wright et al., The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project III).
Authors: Dickinson Oliver
Published: November 2022

This pair of volumes complete the publication of the Bronze Age phases of the prehistoric site of Tsoungiza, close to the site of the sanctuary of Zeus at ancient Nemea, which in historical times hosted one of the major four panhellenic festivals of athletic games (Vol. I of the Project published the Early Bronze Age remains).
The cities of Crete under Roman rule (1st–3rd centuries AD)
Authors: Karambinis Michalis
Published: November 2022

This article examines the impact of the increasing connectivity and economic change on Crete after its subjugation to the Romans, to the urban landscape of the island. The study begins with an outline of the economic developments that took place in Crete from the Hellenistic to the Roman imperial period, which affected the urban system(s) of the island; then it continues with a presentation of characteristic case-studies of cities, the archaeological investigation of which offers us adequate evidence; and it concludes with a comprehensive discussion, where an attempt is made to put the evidence from Crete in a broader context.
Protesilaos, two ways
Authors: Stewart Andrew
Published: November 2022

Two monuments to the hero Protesilaos, both nautical but each unique in its own way, pose some intriguing methodological problems. Of contested date and authorship, extant only in Roman-period reproductions (in different media), but linked by a common theme, they engage both texts and contexts in different ways. They illustrate not only the richness and creativity of the ancient material and textual record, and the indispensability of the ancient reproductions, but also the methodological flexibility advised to tackle such material in general.