Useful Links

Admissions links

Research links

Teaching links

Admissions links

·      Admissions at Keble (undergraduate)

·      BA in Archaeology & Anthropology

·      BA in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History

·      Graduate Studies in Classical Archaeology

·      Graduate Studies, Funding

Research links

Oxford places

• ·      Archaeology Home Page

• ·      Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents

• ·      Classics Home Page

• ·      Institute of Archaeology Home Page

• ·      Institute of Social and Cultural Anthroplogy

• ·      Research Lab for Archaeology and the History of Art

Bronze Age Scripts and Aegean Prehistory Websites

• John Younger's Linear A Website
• Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, UT-Austin (PASP)
• J. Rutter's course on Aegean Prehistory (The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean)
• A virtual tour of Knossos, courtesy of the British School at Athens
• Excavations at Mycenae, courtesy of the BSA.

• ·      KARPATHIA (Aegean Prehistory Weblinks)

• ·      Kythera Island Project (UCL)

• ·      Nestor (Bibliography for Aegean Prehistory)

• ·      PASP (Program for Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, Austin)

• ·      SMID (Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Documents)

• ·      Ventris-Chadwick Archives, Cambridge

• ·      Ventris-Chadwick Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, 2003

Lexicography

• Bruce Fraser's Links for Linguists

Institutions with information about Aegean Bronze Age Scripts

Archaeological Museum of Chania

London Institute of Classical Studies (Ventris archive set to go on-line in 2004)

The British Museum

·      Ventris-Chadwick Archives, Cambridge

Fonts

• Linear B Syllabary
• Free Linear B fonts (Windows and Mac)

Search Engines

• KAPATIJA: Websites in Aegean Archaeology
• Nestor

Other

• A Very English Genius: How Michael Ventris cracked Linear B (BBC 4 documentary)
• Michael Ventris Award

Journals and Booksellers

• Minos (the major Linear B journal)
• Abe Books (consortium of second-hand and antiquarian booksellers)
• Paul Åstroms Förlag
• Oxbow Books
• Cambridge University Press
• Oxford University Press

Teaching links

I don't have these links activated yet, but at least the addresses may be useful.

Aegean Bronze and Early Iron Age / Homeric Archaeology

Bibliography

On-line Resources

  ON-LINE COURSES

 Archaeology for Amateurs: The Mysteries of Crete

http://crete.classics.ox.ac.uk/

Excellent website by Lucia Nixon and Simon Price of Oxford Classics. It’s not just for amateurs – alongside good introductions to archaeological techniques and dating, is great info on Minoans etc.

 Jeremy Rutter’s course

http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/

Excellent overview of the Aegean Bronze Age.

 The Prehistory of Mainland Greece [but link seems to be dead]

http://classics.uc.edu/prmainland/MycTOC.html

A series of illustrated lectures by some outstanding scholars in the field: The Early Prehistory of Greece by Curtis Runnels; Early Bronze Age by D. J. Pullen; Origins of Mycenaean Civilization by Jack Davis; Mycenaean Palaces by John Bennet; Mycenaean Art by John Younger; The End of It All  by Ian Morris.

 SEARCH ENGINES

 Karpathia

http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/Kapatija/

[A very comprehensive listing of on-line resources]

 Nestor

http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/classics/nestor/nestor.html

[The quintessential bibliography for Aegean Bronze Age]

 SMID (Studies in Mycenaean Dialects and Inscriptions)

Articles on everything relating to Linear B and other Bronze Age Aegean scripts - accessed through PASP (see below)

AEGEAN BRONZE AGE SCRIPTS

 Cambridge Mycenaean Epigraphy Group

http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/everyone/linearb/index.html

[History of the decipherment of Linear B, biographies of Ventris & Chadwick, and more….]

Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP)

http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/index.html

[Recently updated – Ventris letters and more; also through this site you can get to SMID on-line (see above)]

John Younger’s sites

http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/ [Wonderful]

http://people.ku.edu/~jyounger/Sphragis/ [For sealstones, by a master]

Archaeological SITES

 Individual sites/excavations which happen to have websites

 Troy

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/troia/eng/index.html

 Uluburun (Bronze Age shipwreck)

http://ina.tamu.edu/ub_main.htm

And an interactive version – you too can dive the seas. Great fun:

http://www.theellisschool.org/shipwreck

 Hattusas (capital of the Hittite Empire)

http://www.hattuscha.de/

Websites with info about various sites

 Perseus

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

 Minoan Crete (Greece)

Can’t find it anymore…..link dead?

 Minoan Crete (UK)

http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/index.htm

http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/minoan/

Especially for quick look-up of sites - the site is available in English and Polish

 British School at Athens

http://www.bsa.gla.ac.uk/archive/index.html

Info on: Mycenae, Lefkandi, Sparta, Palaikastro, and more

 Greek Ministry of Culture

http://www.culture.gr/2/21/toc/index.html

Info on many sites and museums, usually with some lovely photos.

 Metis

http://www.stoa.org/metis/

Very cool. QTVR. You can ‘tour’ individual sites, walking through doors with the click of a button and getting 360^o views by swivelling the mouse. Don’t waste too much time, though…..

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYS

 Nemea Valley Archaeological Project

http://river.blg.uc.edu/nvap/

Sphakia Survey

http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk

Kythera Island Project

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/kip/

Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (PRAP)

Hm…seems to have moved after many years….