A J N W Prag

Biographic Data

ID1221704
NAMEA J N W Prag
GIVEN NAMESA J N W
FAMILY NAMEPrag
SIGNATUREPRAG A J N W
AFFILIATIONSNational Museums Liverpool
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS46
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX3

  • Mycenae Revisited Part 4

    Open AccessO T P K Dickinson, Oliver Dickinson et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2012References: 17

    This is the fourth and final part of the series inspired by the rediscovery in 2003 of two skeletons excavated in 1877 in Shaft Grave VI in Circle A at Mycenae by Panayiotis Stamatakis. The contribution of Stamatakis to the excavations, the discrepancies between his unpublished reports to the Archaeological Society and Schliemann's account, and the reliability of that account, are discussed. This is followed by a survey of what can now be said ab…

  • Natural preservation mechanisms at play in a Bronze Age wooden shovel found in the copper mines of Alderley Edge

    Open AccessAndrew D Smith, D I Green et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2011Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Mycenae Revisited Part 3. The Human Remains from Grave Circle A at Mycenae. Behind the Masks

    Open AccessLena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, Argyro Nafplioti et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2010Cited by: 2References: 20

    This article is the third in a series inspired by the rediscovery in 2003 of two skeletons excavated in 1877 in Shaft Grave VI in Circle A at Mycenae by Panayiotis Stamatakis. Having studied those two individuals and reconstructed their faces, and having conducted a study of strontium isotope analyses on all the individuals from Grave Circle A, we now move on to a reconsideration of the circumstances in which Shaft Graves III, IV, and V were exca…

  • Kinship in Aegean Prehistory? Ancient DNA in Human Bones from Mainland Greece and Crete

    Open AccessAbigail S Bouwman, Abigail Bouwman et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2009Cited by: 1References: 15

    Attempts were made to detect ancient DNA (aDNA) in samples of 89 human skeletons from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Greece and Crete. Ancient DNA was absent in specimens from Nea Nicomedia, Lerna, Kato Zakro: Karaviádena, and Mycenae Grave Circle A. For each of three skeletons sampled from Antron Grave Circle B, polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) gave products for nuclear but not mitochondrial DNA, but the yield of DNA was low and inconsistent…

  • Mycenae Revisited Part 1. The Human Remains from Grave Circle A

    Open AccessLena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, Argyro Nafplioti et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2009Cited by: 2References: 16

    Building work at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens in 2003 led to the rediscovery of the two male skeletons from Shaft Grave VI at Mycenae, found by Panayiotis Stamatakis in 1877 as he completed the excavation of Grave Circle A begun by Schliemann. The find provided a triple opportunity. First came a re-assessment of Stamatakis's important and often pioneering role both at Mycenae and in the archaeology of the later Bronze Age, which h…

  • Inaa of Archaeological Samples at the University of Manchester

    Open AccessG W A NEWTON, Janine Bourriau et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2007Cited by: 1References: 11

    INAA at Manchester began almost by chance, and amid scepticism, with a request for help from the university's Department of Archaeology in the early 1970s. Over the years, the method of selecting pottery to be sampled was refined from the simple assumption that sherds found at a site were typical of those made there, to a greater focus on kiln sites and wasters. An important element in Manchester's approach was that this was a teaching department…

  • The Archaeology of Alderley Edge

    Simon Timberlake, A J N W PragBOOKARCHAEOLOGY OF ALDERLEY EDGE:…2005

  • The Study of Attic Black Gloss Sherds using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction

    Open AccessChiu C Tang, E J MacLean et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2001Cited by: 13References: 4

  • DNA analysis of bones from Grave Circle B at Mycenae

    Open AccessThomas A Brown, Terence A Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…2000References: 7

    Following the successful identification of at least two different family groups in Grave Circle B using facial reconstruction ( BSA 90 [1995], 107–36), a pilot project was carried out at Manchester to identify, analyse and match 22 DNA samples from burials in the Grave Circle. The first step was to determine whether ancient DNA has survived, as proved to be the case; the next was to use this information to sex the individual by polymerase chain r…

  • Seven faces from Grave Circle B at Mycenae

    Open AccessJ H Musgrave, R A H Neave et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1995Cited by: 2

    The faces of seven skulls from Grave Circle B were reconstructed by the Manchester team, as an exercise in using the technique of facial reconstruction to look for family relationships on the basis of facial resemblances among the three or four burial groups within the circle. Similarities were noted between Ζ59 and Γ51, from early and late phases respectively; and between Γ55 (the man with the electrum mask) and his female tomb companion Γ58, bo…

  • The priest and priestess from Archanes–Anemospilia

    Open AccessJ H Musgrave, R A H Neave et al.ARTICLEThe Annual of the British School…1994Cited by: 1References: 5

    In 1987 the Manchester team made casts of the skulls of the priest and priestess discovered at Anemospilia (Archanes) by J. A. and E. Sakellarakis, and after careful medical study—which showed that the priestess suffered from anaemia as well as halitosis—reconstructed their faces, according to the technique used on the skull from tomb II at Vergina (Philip II)

  • Clytemnestra's Weapon Yet Once More

    Open AccessA J N W PragARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1991References: 4

    A good story bears retelling many times, and an appreciative audience will delight in debating its finer points; each participant is – of course – always convinced that only his memory, his understanding, of what the author said is the correct one

  • Reconstructing King Philip II

    A J N W PragARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1990Cited by: 3

    At the University of Manchester techniques of facial reconstruction have been considerably refined, and are being applied in a complementary fashion in both forensic and archaeological contexts. Among excavated skulls to have been reconstructed, that found by Andronicos in the Great Tumulus at Vergina has achieved considerable renown, if not notoriety, since the Manchester-based team was able to identify the skull (and thus indirectly the tomb) a…

  • Reconstructing King Midas

    Open AccessA J N W Prag, Danaë ThimmeARTICLEAnatolian Studies1989Cited by: 1References: 1

    In 1957 the team from Pennsylvania University Museum excavating at Gordion in Phrygia entered the wooden burial chamber in the “Midas Mound”, the largest of the tumuli that dot the plain of the Sakarya. Inside they discovered the body of a man of 60–65 years, 1·59 m. (5′ 21⁄2′′) tall, lying on a bed, and surrounded by over 350 bronze vessels and ornaments, three iron stands, wooden furniture and a little pottery. Despite its traditional name, the…

  • The Oresteia

    Stephen Fineberg, A J N W PragARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • The Oresteia

    N G L Hammond, Ν G L Hammond et al.ARTICLEPhoenix1987

  • Gravina-di-Puglia III

    Open AccessEllen F Macnamara, E Macnamara et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…1977References: 1

    After the abandonment of the Iron Age settlement during the third quarter of the seventh century, the area of Parco San Stefano was used as a cemetery. As has been described above, in the course of the bulldozing undertaken prior to the extension of the quarry, burials were found and this led to the rescue excavation of 1970. Supervision began after the bulldozer had stripped some of the area and, later, burials were often seen only after they ha…

  • Hellenistic Glazed Wares From Athens and Southern Italy

    Open AccessA J N W Prag, F SCHWEIZER et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry1974Cited by: 18References: 23

    S The original intention of the project, conceived in the context of the British School at Rome's excavation and survey programme in the Bradano basin (based on Gravina) was to establish the composition patterns of Hellenistic glazed wares from sites in southern Apulia, and then to use these to trace the trading patterns of the area, against a control group of sherds from the Athenian Agora. It proved possible to distinguish Attic from Apulian sh…

  • Olympia

    A J N W PragARTICLEArchaeological Journal1970