Sharon R Stocker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon R Stocker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon R |
| FAMILY NAME | Stocker |
| SIGNATURE | STOCKER S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
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…
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…
The Gold Necklace from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 87, Number 4, October-December 2018
The Combat Agate from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
The Pylos Combat Agate, in our view a Cretan work of Late Minoan I, may be the finest example of glyptic art yet discovered in a Minoan or Mycenaean context. It was found in 2015 in the grave of the so-called Griffin Warrior at Pylos. The face of the sealstone bears a representation of combat that draws on an iconography of battle scenes known from the Shaft-Grave period mainland and Neopalatial Crete. The level of detail in the representation of…
Realising consilience
This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic changes in the Mediterranean basin. We begin by discussing the methodologies of these three disciplines in the context of the consilience debate, that is, attempts to unify different research methodologies that address similar problems. We demonstrate that there ar…
The Lord of the Gold Rings
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 85, Number 4, October-December 2016
The Medieval Deposit from the Northeast Gateway at the Palace of Nestor
In 1958 and 1959 Marion Rawson explored medieval remains in the area of the Northeast Gateway in the Early Mycenaean fortifications at the Palace of Nestor. A substantial number of cooking pots, glass vessels, tiles, a small amount of glazed wares, and a few miscellaneous objects dating to the late 12th or early 13th century were associated with a small, poorly preserved building that had a paved floor and was once covered by a tile roof. The aut…
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…
III. 2. Terracotta figurines and the history of cult at the Bonjakët hamlet near Illyrian Apollonia
R. Stocker Sharon, Davis J. L., Pojani-Dhamo Iris, Dimo Vangjel. III. 2. Terracotta figurines and the history of cult at the Bonjakët hamlet near Illyrian Apollonia . In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 134, livraison 2, 2010. pp. 419-424
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
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 …
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
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part V
Sharon R. Stocker, Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part V: Deriziotis Aloni: A Small Bronze Age Site in Messenia, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 2003), pp. 341-404
Burnt animal sacrifice at the Mycenaean 'Palace of Nestor', Pylos
The burnt sacrifice of bare (defleshed) bones, described in Homer's Odyssey and well documented from Archaic and Classical Greece, is now clearly attested by burnt faunal remains from the 'Palace of Nestor' at Mycenaean Pylos. This evidance is of great importance for understanding both the historical role of sacrifice in Greek religion and the significance of fensting in Mycenaean palatial society
Beyond Bunkers
This paper considers how the Communist dictatorship in Albania employed material symbols to help impose its ideological vision on the population. We illustrate the eventual demise of these strategies of domination, by describing what has become of some specific elements of Communist material culture (bunkers) in a post-Communist landscape, and by discussing the use and re-use of an individual artefact (a second-century AD architectural block) as …
Burnt animal sacrifice at the Mycenaean 'Palace of Nestor', Pylos
The burnt sacrifice of bare (defleshed) bones, described in Homer's Odyssey and well documented from Archaic and Classical Greece, is now clearly attested by burnt faunal remains from the 'Palace of Nestor' at Mycenaean Pylos. This evidance is of great importance for understanding both the historical role of sacrifice in Greek religion and the significance of fensting in Mycenaean palatial society
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 Lord of the Gold Rings
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 85, Number 4, October-December 2016
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 Combat Agate from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
The Pylos Combat Agate, in our view a Cretan work of Late Minoan I, may be the finest example of glyptic art yet discovered in a Minoan or Mycenaean context. It was found in 2015 in the grave of the so-called Griffin Warrior at Pylos. The face of the sealstone bears a representation of combat that draws on an iconography of battle scenes known from the Shaft-Grave period mainland and Neopalatial Crete. The level of detail in the representation of…
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 …
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part V
Sharon R. Stocker, Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part V: Deriziotis Aloni: A Small Bronze Age Site in Messenia, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 2003), pp. 341-404
The Durrës Regional Archaeological Project
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 72, Number 1, January-March 2003
Beyond Bunkers
This paper considers how the Communist dictatorship in Albania employed material symbols to help impose its ideological vision on the population. We illustrate the eventual demise of these strategies of domination, by describing what has become of some specific elements of Communist material culture (bunkers) in a post-Communist landscape, and by discussing the use and re-use of an individual artefact (a second-century AD architectural block) as …
The Gold Necklace from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 87, Number 4, October-December 2018
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…
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 Medieval Deposit from the Northeast Gateway at the Palace of Nestor
In 1958 and 1959 Marion Rawson explored medieval remains in the area of the Northeast Gateway in the Early Mycenaean fortifications at the Palace of Nestor. A substantial number of cooking pots, glass vessels, tiles, a small amount of glazed wares, and a few miscellaneous objects dating to the late 12th or early 13th century were associated with a small, poorly preserved building that had a paved floor and was once covered by a tile roof. The aut…
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…
Beyond Bunkers
This paper considers how the Communist dictatorship in Albania employed material symbols to help impose its ideological vision on the population. We illustrate the eventual demise of these strategies of domination, by describing what has become of some specific elements of Communist material culture (bunkers) in a post-Communist landscape, and by discussing the use and re-use of an individual artefact (a second-century AD architectural block) as …
Burnt animal sacrifice at the Mycenaean 'Palace of Nestor', Pylos
The burnt sacrifice of bare (defleshed) bones, described in Homer's Odyssey and well documented from Archaic and Classical Greece, is now clearly attested by burnt faunal remains from the 'Palace of Nestor' at Mycenaean Pylos. This evidance is of great importance for understanding both the historical role of sacrifice in Greek religion and the significance of fensting in Mycenaean palatial society
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 V
Sharon R. Stocker, Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part V: Deriziotis Aloni: A Small Bronze Age Site in Messenia, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 2003), pp. 341-404
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 …
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
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…
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
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…
III. 2. Terracotta figurines and the history of cult at the Bonjakët hamlet near Illyrian Apollonia
R. Stocker Sharon, Davis J. L., Pojani-Dhamo Iris, Dimo Vangjel. III. 2. Terracotta figurines and the history of cult at the Bonjakët hamlet near Illyrian Apollonia . In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 134, livraison 2, 2010. pp. 419-424
The Medieval Deposit from the Northeast Gateway at the Palace of Nestor
In 1958 and 1959 Marion Rawson explored medieval remains in the area of the Northeast Gateway in the Early Mycenaean fortifications at the Palace of Nestor. A substantial number of cooking pots, glass vessels, tiles, a small amount of glazed wares, and a few miscellaneous objects dating to the late 12th or early 13th century were associated with a small, poorly preserved building that had a paved floor and was once covered by a tile roof. The aut…
Realising consilience
This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic changes in the Mediterranean basin. We begin by discussing the methodologies of these three disciplines in the context of the consilience debate, that is, attempts to unify different research methodologies that address similar problems. We demonstrate that there ar…
The Lord of the Gold Rings
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 85, Number 4, October-December 2016
The Combat Agate from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
The Pylos Combat Agate, in our view a Cretan work of Late Minoan I, may be the finest example of glyptic art yet discovered in a Minoan or Mycenaean context. It was found in 2015 in the grave of the so-called Griffin Warrior at Pylos. The face of the sealstone bears a representation of combat that draws on an iconography of battle scenes known from the Shaft-Grave period mainland and Neopalatial Crete. The level of detail in the representation of…
The Gold Necklace from the Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 87, Number 4, October-December 2018
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…
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 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…
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