Jack L Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack L Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack L |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 317 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Griffin and Lion Ivory Pyxis Lid from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
In 2015, an exquisite ivory pyxis lid was discovered in the grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos. The lid, carved in high relief, depicts in great detail a combat in which a lion defeats a griffin. The modeling and carving of the ivory are of exceptional quality. Here, we first consider the specific context and circumstances of discovery of the lid—the final find removed from the grave—before turning to a discussion of precedents and parallels f…
Sandy Pylos
Sandy Pylos
The Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
The circumstances of the discovery, stratigraphy, and construction of the grave of the Griffin Warrior were described briefly in 2016 as an introduction to a detailed presentation of the four gold rings found inside it. Here the "life history" of the grave is considered fully. As a sealed context, the grave of the Griffin Warrior also provides a key dated context for many classes of artifact, the chronologies of which have not hitherto been well …
From Archive to GIS
This article is a case study in doing new things with old data. In 1953 Lord William Taylour directed the excavation of a monumental vaulted tholos tomb known as 'Tholos IV' at the site of ancient Pylos, Messenia, Greece. The excavation was conducted over two months, during which detailed notes were recorded in three notebooks now kept in the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The formal publication of Tholos IV, howe…
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)
Carl W. Blegen
Minding the Gap
The articles collected in this Forum were presented in Jeremy Rutter’s honor in a Gold Medal Colloquium held at the 114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (Seattle, 2013). The focus is Rutter’s note “Some Observations on the Cyclades in the Later Third and Early Second Millennia” (AJA 87 [1983] 69–76; http://www.jstor.org/stable/504665). His observations there pointed to a chronological “gap” in the stratigraphic sequence…
Pylos
The discovery of Bronze Age Pylos followed many frustrating efforts to locate the home of Homer's hero, Nestor. In 1829, soon after Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Turks, members of the great French cultural mission, the Expédition scientifique de Morée, sought Nestor's palace not far away, near a village called Pyla. In the 1880s Heinrich Schliemann dug in the medieval fortress at Navarino, looking for prehistoric remains comparable…
Early Prehistoric Landscape and Landuse in the Fier Region of Albania
Little was known until recently about regional patterns of early prehistoric occupation in Albania, making it difficult to situate the Albanian record within existing, general models of early prehistoric landuse. An intensive regional survey, the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), carried out in the Fier region of central Albania from 1998-2003, gathered widespread evidence for human occupation during the Palaeolithic and Mesolit…
Minoan Crete and the Aegean Islands
Introduction The nature of Minoan involvement in the Aegean islands is an intrinsically fascinating question for a prehistorian of Greece, one that has been debated since the very beginning of our field. It also constitutes an excellent case study of broader interest in world archaeology. What causes promote the cultural assimilation of one group by another? How do the opposing forces of socio-economic domination and resistance manifest themselve…
An Archer from the Palace of Nestor
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 77, Number 3, July-September 2008
An Archaeological Homily
The Birth of Hesperia
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 76, Number 1, January-March 2007
Sourcing Volcanic Millstones from Greco-Roman Sites in Albania
Provenience studies provide insights concerning trade in various goods, such as millstones. This is the first attempt to source millstones from Albania. Thirty-one vesicular volcanic millstones, predominately from the Greek and Roman periods, were obtained from two sites, 21 from Apollonia and ten from Butrint. The purpose of this study was to determine the provenience of these millstones using textural, mineralogical, and chemical data. The comp…
The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Albania
In the Balkans archaeologists until recently have neglected Pleistocene and early Holocene remains in open-air contexts in favor of excavations in caves. As a consequence, they have reconstructed patterns of settlement and land use that in many areas are misleading. The authors of this paper suggest that a systematic examination of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic open-air sites through intensive surface survey has the potential to transform entirely …
A Foreign School of Archaeology and the Politics of Archaeological Practice
This paper considers the politics of archaeological practice of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), a major institutional force that has shaped the discipline of Classical archaeologythrough its educational programs and its sponsorship of archaeological excavations. The current attitudes of ASCSA towards archaeology reflect a long-standing commitment to the tenets of western Hellenism and to the nationalist discourse of th…
Animal Sacrifice, Archives, and Feasting at the Palace of Nestor
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 73, Number 2, April-June 2004
The Durrës Regional Archaeological Project
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 72, Number 1, January-March 2003
Contingent Countryside
Warriors for the Fatherland
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part III
This article previews the study of the Second Ottoman period (1715-1821) by members of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. By closely comparing Sir William Gell's apparently dispassionate descriptions of the Navarino Bay area with other documentary and archaeological data, we suggest that reconstruction of settlement and land use relying solely on Gell's descriptions can result in misrepresentation. This conclusion has implications for mod…
Kommos
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I
Jack L. Davis, Susan E. Alcock, John Bennet, Yannos G. Lolos, Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I: Overview and the Archaeological Survey, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1997), pp. 391-494
The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project a Preliminary Report
James C. Wright, John F. Cherry, Jack L. Davis, Eleni Mantzourani, Susan B. Sutton, Robert F. Sutton Jr., The Nemea Valley Archaeological Project a Preliminary Report, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1990), pp. 579-659
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I
Jack L. Davis, Susan E. Alcock, John Bennet, Yannos G. Lolos, Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I: Overview and the Archaeological Survey, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1997), pp. 391-494
Interpreting Space
Animal Sacrifice, Archives, and Feasting at the Palace of Nestor
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 73, Number 2, April-June 2004
Contributions to a Mediterranean Rural Archaeology
American Indian Fiction
An Archer from the Palace of Nestor
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 77, Number 3, July-September 2008
The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Albania
In the Balkans archaeologists until recently have neglected Pleistocene and early Holocene remains in open-air contexts in favor of excavations in caves. As a consequence, they have reconstructed patterns of settlement and land use that in many areas are misleading. The authors of this paper suggest that a systematic examination of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic open-air sites through intensive surface survey has the potential to transform entirely …
A Foreign School of Archaeology and the Politics of Archaeological Practice
This paper considers the politics of archaeological practice of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), a major institutional force that has shaped the discipline of Classical archaeologythrough its educational programs and its sponsorship of archaeological excavations. The current attitudes of ASCSA towards archaeology reflect a long-standing commitment to the tenets of western Hellenism and to the nationalist discourse of th…
Archaeological Survey in an Artifact-Rich Landscape
Surface studies of a Middle Neolithic site near Nemea have produced pottery, chipped stone, and other finds which can be used to investigate economic and social links with contemporary settlements in the northeast Peloponnesos. Discovery of the site by survey and its subsequent archaeological and geological exploration exemplify the methods developed by the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project to examine terrain in which large quantities of artifa…
Petrological Examination of Later Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Ayia Irini, Keos
Jack L. Davis, David F. Williams, Petrological Examination of Later Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Ayia Irini, Keos, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1981), pp. 291-300
The Durrës Regional Archaeological Project
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 72, Number 1, January-March 2003
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part III
This article previews the study of the Second Ottoman period (1715-1821) by members of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. By closely comparing Sir William Gell's apparently dispassionate descriptions of the Navarino Bay area with other documentary and archaeological data, we suggest that reconstruction of settlement and land use relying solely on Gell's descriptions can result in misrepresentation. This conclusion has implications for mod…
Response to A.J. Ammerman 'The Dynamics of Modern Land Use and the Acconia Survey
The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland in LC I
The distribution of mainland pottery in the Cyclades during LC I, together with information about the relative abundance and degree of variety in which it occurs at different Cycladic sites, suggests a distinct pattern of attenuation with distance as one progresses from N to S down the "Western String" of islands. Despite the limited evidence so far available, it is possible to narrow considerably the range of exchange mechanisms likely to have p…
Late Helladic I Pottery from Korakou
Minding the Gap
The articles collected in this Forum were presented in Jeremy Rutter’s honor in a Gold Medal Colloquium held at the 114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (Seattle, 2013). The focus is Rutter’s note “Some Observations on the Cyclades in the Later Third and Early Second Millennia” (AJA 87 [1983] 69–76; http://www.jstor.org/stable/504665). His observations there pointed to a chronological “gap” in the stratigraphic sequence…
Early Prehistoric Landscape and Landuse in the Fier Region of Albania
Little was known until recently about regional patterns of early prehistoric occupation in Albania, making it difficult to situate the Albanian record within existing, general models of early prehistoric landuse. An intensive regional survey, the Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project (MRAP), carried out in the Fier region of central Albania from 1998-2003, gathered widespread evidence for human occupation during the Palaeolithic and Mesolit…
Warriors for the Fatherland
Keos and the Eastern Aegean the Cretan Connection
Jack L. Davis, Elizabeth Schofield, Robin Torrence, David F. Williams, Keos and the Eastern Aegean the Cretan Connection, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1983), pp. 361-366
The Ignoble Savage
The Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
The circumstances of the discovery, stratigraphy, and construction of the grave of the Griffin Warrior were described briefly in 2016 as an introduction to a detailed presentation of the four gold rings found inside it. Here the "life history" of the grave is considered fully. As a sealed context, the grave of the Griffin Warrior also provides a key dated context for many classes of artifact, the chronologies of which have not hitherto been well …
The Birth of Hesperia
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 76, Number 1, January-March 2007
Contributions to Aegean Archaeology
The Griffin and Lion Ivory Pyxis Lid from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
In 2015, an exquisite ivory pyxis lid was discovered in the grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos. The lid, carved in high relief, depicts in great detail a combat in which a lion defeats a griffin. The modeling and carving of the ivory are of exceptional quality. Here, we first consider the specific context and circumstances of discovery of the lid—the final find removed from the grave—before turning to a discussion of precedents and parallels f…
Roger Williams among the Narragansett Indians
not only a devastating critic of New England theocracy, but also an original theorist who, in Parrington's words, anticipated a surprising number of the idealisms of the future.1 Thus, it is not surprising that Roger Williams' contributions to the American tradition have been explored in such standard histories as those by Tyler2 and Parrington, and more recently in critical biographies by Perry Miller3 and Ola Winslow.4 However no study of Roger…
Tales of Power
The Ignoble Savage
The Mainland Panelled Cup and Panelled Style
Crazy Horse and Custer
Late Helladic I Pottery from Korakou
The White Man's Indian
American Indian Fiction
The American Indian in Short Fiction
The Half Blood
The - Indian, white - is a frequent figure in the popular fiction of nineteenth-century America, for he (or sometimes she) served to symbolize many of the conflicting cultural values with which American society was then wrestling. In literature, as in real life the was a product of the frontier, embodying the conflict between wilderness and civilization that haunted and stirred the American imagination. What was his identity? Was he indeed half I…
Petrological Examination of Later Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Ayia Irini, Keos
Jack L. Davis, David F. Williams, Petrological Examination of Later Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Ayia Irini, Keos, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1981), pp. 291-300
Mycenaeans at Thera
The Earliest Minoans in the South-East Aegean
In the south-east Aegean, among the earliest finds reported to be Minoan were those of Italian excavators in the Dodecanese. A reference in 1928 to “numerosi avanzi di ceramica del tipo di Camares” in the Vathy cave on Kalymnos is typical (Maiuri, p. 114). Yet little imported Middle Minoan pottery has been published from the south-east Aegean. Many sherds described in preliminary reports as Kamares or MM (as were those at Vathy), when illustrated…
The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland in LC I
The distribution of mainland pottery in the Cyclades during LC I, together with information about the relative abundance and degree of variety in which it occurs at different Cycladic sites, suggests a distinct pattern of attenuation with distance as one progresses from N to S down the "Western String" of islands. Despite the limited evidence so far available, it is possible to narrow considerably the range of exchange mechanisms likely to have p…
Keos and the Eastern Aegean the Cretan Connection
Jack L. Davis, Elizabeth Schofield, Robin Torrence, David F. Williams, Keos and the Eastern Aegean the Cretan Connection, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1983), pp. 361-366
Songs of Heyoehkah
An Island Polity
Petroglyphs
Contributions to Aegean Archaeology
Prophetic Worlds
Indian Running
Island Societies
Archeology
Archaeological Survey in an Artifact-Rich Landscape
Surface studies of a Middle Neolithic site near Nemea have produced pottery, chipped stone, and other finds which can be used to investigate economic and social links with contemporary settlements in the northeast Peloponnesos. Discovery of the site by survey and its subsequent archaeological and geological exploration exemplify the methods developed by the Nemea Valley Archaeological Project to examine terrain in which large quantities of artifa…
Kunst und Kultur der Kykladen 1
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