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“Minding the Gap”: Bridging the Gaps in Cultural Change Within the Early Bronze Age Aegean

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“Minding the Gap”: Bridging the Gaps in Cultural Change Within the Early Bronze Age Aegean

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Daniel J. Pullen
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In one of the arguments about the Early Cycladic (EC) III “gap” in material culture, Jeremy Rutter recognized the Anatolianizing Kastri/Lefkandi I assemblage to be of great importance for developments in ceramics on the Early Helladic mainland. Now accepted by most scholars as having appeared in the EC/Early Helladic (EH) IIB period, rather than EC/EH III, the Kastri/Lefkandi I assemblage is not thought to be a coherent, unified package of material and social culture. Instead, there is great variation among regions of mainland Greece in how (and when) various components of the Kastri/Lefkandi I assemblage were adopted. This article explores the impact of Kastri/Lefkandi I shapes on the material culture and feasting practices of the Early Helladic mainland.

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“Minding the Gap”: Bridging the Gaps in Cultural Change Within the Early Bronze Age Aegean

By Daniel J. Pullen

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 117, No. 4 (October 2013), pp. 545–553

DOI: 10.3764/aja.117.4.0545

© 2013 Archaeological Institute of America

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