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Peter Warren

fl. 1965–2018

Archaeologist and scholar, active 1965–2018. Excavated with I. Tzedakis; worked with V. Hankey.

Life and work

  1. 1965
    Published a study of two palatial stone vases from Knossos in BSA 1965, cited as a reference for the gypsum vase discussion.

    Tracey Cullen, Aegean Prehistory: A Review (2001), p. 449

  2. 1965
    Published an article on two Palatial stone vases from Knossos in BSA 60 (1965), cited as a footnote reference only.

    Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete (1998), p. 157

  3. 1987–1988
    Cited as a leading proponent of the conventional low chronology who is said to accept that LMIIIA1 may have begun in the reign of Tuthmosis III; the passage also cites his 1987 and 1988 views against the early chronology.

    Sturt W. Manning, A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC (1999), p. 218

  4. Undated
    Aegean prehistorian who excavated in Crete, studied Minoan stone vases including a Cypriot-related vessel, and wrote on Aegean Late Bronze Age chronology, which bears on the dating of Cypriot pottery.

    The Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun, Turkey: 1985 Campaign (1988), p. 34

  5. Undated
    Studied Minoan stone vases; dated a Cypriot-related vessel and commented on Athens NM 3225 from Mycenae.

    كامد اللوز 3

  6. Undated
    Conducted recent Cretan excavations; his paper reviews evidence for immigration into Crete in the Bronze Age.

    R. A. Crossland; Ann Birchall, Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean: Archaeological and Linguistic Problems in Greek Prehistory (1973), p. 382

  7. Undated
    Followed the Low chronology, arguing that the start of Late Minoan IB is co-eval with the beginning of the reign of Tuthmosis III, affecting dating of Cypriote and Aegean pottery.

    The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research (2018)

Connections

3 people
I. TzedakisVronwy Mary HankeyWolf-Dietrich NiemeierPeter Warren
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Sources

  1. 1.The Bronze Age Shipwreck at Ulu Burun, Turkey: 1985 Campaign (1988).
  2. 2.كامد اللوز 3.
  3. 3.Tracey Cullen, Aegean Prehistory: A Review (2001).
  4. 4.R. A. Crossland; Ann Birchall, Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean: Archaeological and Linguistic Problems in Greek Prehistory (1973).
  5. 5.Neopalatial, Final Palatial, and Postpalatial Crete (1998).
  6. 6.The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research (2018).
  7. 7.Sturt W. Manning, A Test of Time: The Volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium BC (1999).
  8. 8.Jürgen Thimme; Pat Getz-Preziosi; Brinna Otto, Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C. (1977).
  9. 9.P. Warren; V. Hankey, 1989, Aegean Bronze Age Chronology.
  10. 10.Jan Driessen; Colin F. Macdonald, 2020, The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption.

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