R E Jones
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8800 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R E Jones |
| PRENOMES | R E |
| SOBRENOME | Jones |
| ASSINATURA | JONES R E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8291-0101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1965 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Non-invasive analysis of samian pottery assemblages from frontier contexts
We report on the applicability of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) as a rapid, in situ , cost-effective and non-invasive analytical technique to identify sources in Gaul of samian pottery ( terra sigillata ) from fifteen Roman military sites and one Iron Age hillfort in Scotland and South Shields Roman fort, northern England, using data gathered from three phases of investigation. Building upon the considerable samian composition database creat…
The Decoration and Firing of Ancient Greek Pottery
The wealth and diversity of decoration on Greek pottery continues to attract science-based attention. The availability of increasingly powerful analytical techniques has allowed the nature of the decoration to be investigated in ever-finer detail, down to the nano-particle level. Such work has gone hand in hand with replication experiments ranging from sourcing raw materials to experimental firing. As a result, there is a fuller understanding of …
Italo-Mycenaean and other Aegean-influenced pottery in Late Bronze Age Italy
Decorated Italo-Mycenaean (IM) pottery, a high-status class found and made over three centuries from the Italian Late Middle Bronze Age onwards, was the subject of a large archaeological and archaeometric enquiry published by the present authors in 2014. The present paper focuses on identifying IM's centres of production. The results of chemical analysis of IM using mainly ICP-ES make a strong case for regional production, irrespective of findspo…
Analysis of coloured Grooved Ware sherds from the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney
The Height of Denier Tournois Minting in Greece (1289–1313) According to New Archaeometric Data
The years 1289–1313 witnessed particularly prolific minting activities at different southern and central Greek mints on behalf of different polities. The coin issues are of great economic and political relevance, and therefore of interest to modern historians. Our understanding of these is based on traditional sources, either numismatic (types and finds), or historical. This paper aims to investigate the possibilities of adding further details to…
From big society to small state
Exploring the location and function of a Late Neolithic house at Crossiecrown, Orkney by geophysical, geochemical and soil micromorphological methods
Magnetic prospection was instrumental in the discovery of a multiphase Neolithic settlement at Crossiecrown on Mainland Orkney. Subsequent excavation revealed a number of structures, including a large circular walled house of Late Neolithic date with a range of well‐defined architectural features in its interior. This paper presents the discovery, excavation and in particular the functional analysis of this house. Soil micromorphology established…
A new protocol for the chemical characterisation of steatite – two case studies in Europe
The Canal of Xerxes
This paper summarizes the results of the earlier phase (1991–8) of geoarchaeological investigations at the Canal of Xerxes in northern Greece and then presents the findings of recent work. Through the combination of geophysical survey and analysis of sediments obtained from bore holes drilled along the supposed course of the canal it was established in 1996 that at least in the central sector of the 2 km wide isthmus there was indeed a deeply bur…
Technology Transfer at the Periphery of the Mycenaean World
The study of technology transfer in pottery production to the periphery of the Mycenaean world has been addressed by considering two different areas, southern Italy and central Macedonia. Technological features such as ceramic paste, decoration and firing have been determined for different ceramic groups established according to provenance criteria. The studies of technology and provenance have been performed following an archaeometric approach, …
Exploration of the Canal of Xerxes, Northern Greece
The Canal reputedly built on the orders of the Persian King Xerxes across a narrow isthmus in northern Greece to allow his fleet access into the Aegean in advance of the Persian invasion of Greece in the early fifth century BC must have been a remarkable engineering operation for its time. Yet apart from a depression in the central sector of the isthmus, almost nothing of this canal is visible today, nor are there visible remains of building stru…
Geophysical and Related Techniques Applied to Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean
Geophysical and Related Techniques Applied to Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean
During the last few years geophysical survey has developed considerably in terms of instrumentation and image processing. Together with remote sensing and GIS, it is becoming increasingly, if still slowly, integrated into archaeological investigations in the Mediterranean. This article reviews how, and with what success, geophysical techniques - and, to a lesser extent, geochemical methods, aerial/satellite remote sensing and GIS - have been appl…
Exploration of the Canal of Xerxes, Northern Greece
The Canal reputedly built on the orders of the Persian King Xerxes across a narrow isthmus in northern Greece to allow his fleet access into the Aegean in advance of the Persian invasion of Greece in the early fifth century BC must have been a remarkable engineering operation for its time. Yet apart from a depression in the central sector of the isthmus, almost nothing of this canal is visible today, nor are there visible remains of building stru…
The canal of Xerxes
The paper describes the continuation in 1993–4 of the investigation into the Canal of Xerxes in the Chalkidiki, N. Greece. Effort was concentrated in the central sector of the isthmus, where geophysical survey using seismic methods revealed a channel-like structure some 14–15 m below the present ground level. Encouraging support for the hypothesis that this structure is a canal came from the analysis of cores from two boreholes in the central sec…
Mycenaean black inlaid metalware in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Current technical interest in the nature of the black inlaid decoration on ancient metalware has stimulated an examination of some of the well-known bronze daggers, silver vessels, and other fragments, all with inlaid decoration and dating to the 16–14th centuries BC, from Mycenae, Prosymna, Dendra, Routsi, and Pylos. Results of non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis point to great versatility in working with copper (or bronze)–gold–silver a…
The responsibility to educate
Some years ago, in a joint affirmation of faith, Professor Walker identified himself as a ‘dissident’ producer of ‘works of thought’ at ‘margins’ distant from ‘all presumptive sovereign centres of interpretation and judgement’. From these remote sites, or heights, he and his critical colleagues aim to exacerbate ‘the crisis of the discipline of international studies’ by upsetting its ‘notions of space, time, and progress’ and thus questioning its…
The canal of Xerxes on the Mount Athos peninsula
The canal dug by Xerxes across the Mount Athos peninsula in preparation for his invasion of Greece is an important but little-known monument. Geophysical and topographical investigations begun in 1991–2 now suggest that its central section across high ground ran along a deep trench. Its features elsewhere remain to be determined
The Black Inlay Decoration on a Mycenaean Bronze Dagger
The black inlay decoration with superb marine, hunting and other scenes on Mycenaean bronze daggers and silver cups has often been referred to in the literature as niello—a mixture of sulphides of copper, silver or lead—despite the absence of any systematic analysis of these precious metal artefacts. This paper presents semi‐quantitative surface analyses of an example of black inlay on a Mycenaean dagger, now in the Archaeological Museum at Patra…
Thinking big
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Traders and craftsmen in the central Mediterranean
This addendum presents the tables of the chemical compositions of Late Bronze Age pottery that were omitted from the authors' paper with the same title, published in 1991 in the Proceedings of the Conference on Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean (Oxford 1989). In addition, a short description and bibliography is provided for those sites in Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily from which the pottery was analysed
Protogeometric Vases from Amorgos in the Museum of the British School
Two vases, a cup and an oinochoe, from Arkesine in south-west Amorgos are published for the first time. It is argued that both are probably Middle Protogeometric, one an import from Euboia, the other from the south-east Aegean; chemical analysis supports both attributions. Their implications for the early history of Amorgos are discussed
The sources of Mycenaean gypsum
East cretan white-on-dark ware
Hadra Hydriae and Central Crete
Stylistic reasons are given for believing that many of the Hadra hydriae found in the Hellenistic cemeteries of Alexandria were made in Crete. Analyses of the clay compositions of a group of Hadra vases are compared with control samples from Cretan sites and the Nile Valley. The results suggest, together with the stylistic evidence, that Crete is a likely home for the workshops producing Hadra vases
From big society to small state
Technology Transfer at the Periphery of the Mycenaean World
The study of technology transfer in pottery production to the periphery of the Mycenaean world has been addressed by considering two different areas, southern Italy and central Macedonia. Technological features such as ceramic paste, decoration and firing have been determined for different ceramic groups established according to provenance criteria. The studies of technology and provenance have been performed following an archaeometric approach, …
A new protocol for the chemical characterisation of steatite – two case studies in Europe
A Tiberian Pottery Deposit from Corinth
Kathleen Slane Wright, R. E. Jones, A Tiberian Pottery Deposit from Corinth, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1980), pp. 135-177
Byzantine and Allied Pottery
Analyses are given of the clay composition of kiln waste from some production sites, and of excavated sherds of some distinctive wares, as a contribution to a possible archive aimed at localizing the origins of different classes of pottery found in archaeological contexts, and at clarifying trade patterns
Punic Amphoras Found at Corinth, Greece
Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Among the large deposit of amphoras of the 5th century B.C. found in a recently excavated building at ancient Corinth, Greece, were many of Punic type, which the excavator associated with the remains in the same building of filleted fish. These amphoras were of rather uniform shape, and yet they exhibited a wide range of colors and textures. The present paper, beginning with a de…
Analyses of Copper and Bronze Artefacts From the Unexplored Mansion, Knossos
A Reinvestigation of the Provenance of the Inscribed Stirrup Jars Found at Thebes
The Black Inlay Decoration on a Mycenaean Bronze Dagger
The black inlay decoration with superb marine, hunting and other scenes on Mycenaean bronze daggers and silver cups has often been referred to in the literature as niello—a mixture of sulphides of copper, silver or lead—despite the absence of any systematic analysis of these precious metal artefacts. This paper presents semi‐quantitative surface analyses of an example of black inlay on a Mycenaean dagger, now in the Archaeological Museum at Patra…
Italo-Mycenaean and other Aegean-influenced pottery in Late Bronze Age Italy
Decorated Italo-Mycenaean (IM) pottery, a high-status class found and made over three centuries from the Italian Late Middle Bronze Age onwards, was the subject of a large archaeological and archaeometric enquiry published by the present authors in 2014. The present paper focuses on identifying IM's centres of production. The results of chemical analysis of IM using mainly ICP-ES make a strong case for regional production, irrespective of findspo…
The sources of Mycenaean gypsum
Mycenaean black inlaid metalware in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Current technical interest in the nature of the black inlaid decoration on ancient metalware has stimulated an examination of some of the well-known bronze daggers, silver vessels, and other fragments, all with inlaid decoration and dating to the 16–14th centuries BC, from Mycenae, Prosymna, Dendra, Routsi, and Pylos. Results of non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis point to great versatility in working with copper (or bronze)–gold–silver a…
The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars and West Crete
The four authors of this paper have worked in close consultation throughout the project, and present a joint result rather than so many separately initialled sections. Catling has most responsibility for the archaeological matter, Jones for the analytical work, Cherry and Jones for the interpretation of the results of the analyses and Killen for the epigraphic comment. It must be noted that a single series of numbers, 1–108, is used throughout th…
Five Copper Axes from Greece
Early copper axes from mainland Greece, whether flat or shaft-hole, are rare. Only four are attributable with more or less certainty to the Final Neolithic period: two from Sesklo, one from Alepotrypa and one from Pevkakia. There is one from Crete that was found in a Late Neolithic level at Knossos. Three others might belong to Early Bronze I: a flat axe each from Gona and Marathon Cave, and a unique hammer-axe from Levadia. The three Mainland ho…
Scientific Analyses of Minoan Fresco Samples from Knossos
The stratigraphical excavations of the British School at Athens of the Minoan settlement at Knossos on Crete following the Second World War have produced, among much else, many fragmentary remains of wall paintings in datable archaeological contexts of almost every period from Early Minoan I to Late Minoan IIIB ( c. 3000–1200 B.C.). This circumstance therefore presented an excellent opportunity to examine and analyse scientifically fresco samples…
Resident Minoan Potters on the Greek Mainland? Pottery Composition Analyses From Ayios Stephanos
X-ray and spectrographic analyses of terracotta figurines from myrina
Further evidence on the decline in infant mortality in pre-industrial England
There is growing evidence of a substantial decline in infant mortality in England from the late seventeenth century onwards. This trend is examined in detail using data from the parish registers of a group of rural parishes in North Shropshire. A major change in the whole pattern of first-year mortality during the period 1661-1810 is indicated, its main features being an increase in mortality between the ages of six and eleven months, and a marke…
The ‘SOS’ Amphora
I Discuss here some features of the type of storage amphora dubbed ‘SOS’, a large semi-decorated container in use from the later eighth to the first half of the sixth century B.C., and found at a large number of sites around the Mediterranean and beyond. In particular, the evidence of clay analyses carried out at the British School by Richard Jones will be adduced to confirm the Attic origin of the majority of these vases, while other centres of …
Traders and craftsmen in the central Mediterranean
This addendum presents the tables of the chemical compositions of Late Bronze Age pottery that were omitted from the authors' paper with the same title, published in 1991 in the Proceedings of the Conference on Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean (Oxford 1989). In addition, a short description and bibliography is provided for those sites in Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily from which the pottery was analysed
East cretan white-on-dark ware
Corollaire
Jones R. E. Corollaire: Analyses of suspected attic imports and other pottery samples of the archaic period from Megara Hyblaea. In: Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome. Antiquite, tome 91, n°1. 1979. pp. 58-62
Provenance Studies of the LMIB/LHIIA Marine style
The provenance of vessels of the Marine Style of LMIB from Crete and LHIIA from the Mainland remains an important unsolved problem. This article describes an attempt to discriminate between selected Mainland and Cretan specimens by multivariate analysis of the compositions of their fabrics determined by optical emission spectroscopy with the aim of determining whether the Mainland Marine Style pieces were indeed made on the Mainland, perhaps loca…
Local cold exposure of Andean Indians during normal and simulated activities
Thermal responses of Andean Indians were measured during several customary tasks associated with cold exposure in the highlands of southern Peru. These included surface temperature measurements of women while they washed clothing in the river and similar measurements of men while they constructed a diversion channel in the same river. A third test measured the effects of alcohol consumption on body temperatures during light activity. Women mainta…
Infant mortality in Rural North Shropshire, 1561-1810
The problem of the level of infant mortality in pre-nineteenth century England and the degree to which it was underrecorded in the ecclesiastical registration system has been relatively neglected by historical demographers. The registers of 60 rural parishes in north Shropshire are used to calculate recorded infant burial rates between 1561 and 1810. These are found to be fairly constant around 110 infant burials per 1,000 baptisms before 1740, f…
Politics
Population and Industrialization. (Documents in Economic History.)
Sellopoulo Tomb 4
Five Late Minoan tombs have been excavated at Sellopoulo, near Knossos. Much the richest of these, excavated in 1967 by M. R. Popham, was the unpillaged Tomb 4, whose three burials were accompanied by a rich array of gold and other jewellery, bronze vessels and weapons, and pottery. This pottery established the date of the burials within the Late Minoan II-early IIIA phase. Furthermore, the tomb contained a scarab of Amenophis III, whose reign ex…
A Note on the Identification of Fresco Material from the British Campaigns at Palaikastro, 1902–1906
Among the trays of fresco-fragments from Sir Arthur Evans's excavations at Knossos, now stored in the Herakleion Museum, there are several only tentatively ascribed to that site. They fall into two groups according to Dr. Helga Reusch's reorganization of the material in 1961: trays HM 111–60 are labelled ‘Knossos’, but HM 161–9 and 239–40 are marked ‘Knossos?’. Of both groups Dr. Reusch has rightly noted: ‘Ohne nähere Angabe der Fundstelle’. In J…
Local cold exposure of Andean Indians during normal and simulated activities
Thermal responses of Andean Indians were measured during several customary tasks associated with cold exposure in the highlands of southern Peru. These included surface temperature measurements of women while they washed clothing in the river and similar measurements of men while they constructed a diversion channel in the same river. A third test measured the effects of alcohol consumption on body temperatures during light activity. Women mainta…
Infant mortality in Rural North Shropshire, 1561-1810
The problem of the level of infant mortality in pre-nineteenth century England and the degree to which it was underrecorded in the ecclesiastical registration system has been relatively neglected by historical demographers. The registers of 60 rural parishes in north Shropshire are used to calculate recorded infant burial rates between 1561 and 1810. These are found to be fairly constant around 110 infant burials per 1,000 baptisms before 1740, f…
Scientific Analyses of Minoan Fresco Samples from Knossos
The stratigraphical excavations of the British School at Athens of the Minoan settlement at Knossos on Crete following the Second World War have produced, among much else, many fragmentary remains of wall paintings in datable archaeological contexts of almost every period from Early Minoan I to Late Minoan IIIB ( c. 3000–1200 B.C.). This circumstance therefore presented an excellent opportunity to examine and analyse scientifically fresco samples…
Resident Minoan Potters on the Greek Mainland? Pottery Composition Analyses From Ayios Stephanos
Analyses of Copper and Bronze Artefacts From the Unexplored Mansion, Knossos
A Reinvestigation of the Provenance of the Inscribed Stirrup Jars Found at Thebes
Provenance Studies of the LMIB/LHIIA Marine style
The provenance of vessels of the Marine Style of LMIB from Crete and LHIIA from the Mainland remains an important unsolved problem. This article describes an attempt to discriminate between selected Mainland and Cretan specimens by multivariate analysis of the compositions of their fabrics determined by optical emission spectroscopy with the aim of determining whether the Mainland Marine Style pieces were indeed made on the Mainland, perhaps loca…
The ‘SOS’ Amphora
I Discuss here some features of the type of storage amphora dubbed ‘SOS’, a large semi-decorated container in use from the later eighth to the first half of the sixth century B.C., and found at a large number of sites around the Mediterranean and beyond. In particular, the evidence of clay analyses carried out at the British School by Richard Jones will be adduced to confirm the Attic origin of the majority of these vases, while other centres of …
Corollaire
Jones R. E. Corollaire: Analyses of suspected attic imports and other pottery samples of the archaic period from Megara Hyblaea. In: Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome. Antiquite, tome 91, n°1. 1979. pp. 58-62
Five Copper Axes from Greece
Early copper axes from mainland Greece, whether flat or shaft-hole, are rare. Only four are attributable with more or less certainty to the Final Neolithic period: two from Sesklo, one from Alepotrypa and one from Pevkakia. There is one from Crete that was found in a Late Neolithic level at Knossos. Three others might belong to Early Bronze I: a flat axe each from Gona and Marathon Cave, and a unique hammer-axe from Levadia. The three Mainland ho…
The Economic History of World Population
A Governor and His Image in Baroque Brazil
The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars and West Crete
The four authors of this paper have worked in close consultation throughout the project, and present a joint result rather than so many separately initialled sections. Catling has most responsibility for the archaeological matter, Jones for the analytical work, Cherry and Jones for the interpretation of the results of the analyses and Killen for the epigraphic comment. It must be noted that a single series of numbers, 1–108, is used throughout th…
A Tiberian Pottery Deposit from Corinth
Kathleen Slane Wright, R. E. Jones, A Tiberian Pottery Deposit from Corinth, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1980), pp. 135-177
Further evidence on the decline in infant mortality in pre-industrial England
There is growing evidence of a substantial decline in infant mortality in England from the late seventeenth century onwards. This trend is examined in detail using data from the parish registers of a group of rural parishes in North Shropshire. A major change in the whole pattern of first-year mortality during the period 1661-1810 is indicated, its main features being an increase in mortality between the ages of six and eleven months, and a marke…
Byzantine and Allied Pottery
Analyses are given of the clay composition of kiln waste from some production sites, and of excavated sherds of some distinctive wares, as a contribution to a possible archive aimed at localizing the origins of different classes of pottery found in archaeological contexts, and at clarifying trade patterns
X-ray and spectrographic analyses of terracotta figurines from myrina
Punic Amphoras Found at Corinth, Greece
Corinth Excavations, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Among the large deposit of amphoras of the 5th century B.C. found in a recently excavated building at ancient Corinth, Greece, were many of Punic type, which the excavator associated with the remains in the same building of filleted fish. These amphoras were of rather uniform shape, and yet they exhibited a wide range of colors and textures. The present paper, beginning with a de…
Hadra Hydriae and Central Crete
Stylistic reasons are given for believing that many of the Hadra hydriae found in the Hellenistic cemeteries of Alexandria were made in Crete. Analyses of the clay compositions of a group of Hadra vases are compared with control samples from Cretan sites and the Nile Valley. The results suggest, together with the stylistic evidence, that Crete is a likely home for the workshops producing Hadra vases
East cretan white-on-dark ware
The sources of Mycenaean gypsum
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