Short biography on Traveling and Fish Eating

Much has been written about the frying pans from the cemetery of Chalandriani. John

Coleman’s article is the classic reference, as is Marisa Marthari’s article on the more recent

excavations. Jan Jaap Hekman’s PhD thesis provides a complete history of the

investigations and a detailed presentation of the findings in each grave:

Coleman, J. E. (1985). “Frying Pans” of the Early Bronze Age Aegean. American Journal of

Archaeology, 89(2), 191-219.

Marthari, M. (2017). Aspects of Pictorialism and Symbolism in the Early Bronze Age

Cyclades: A “Frying Pan” with Longboat Depiction from the New Excavations at

Chalandriani in Syros. In V. Vlachou and A. Gadolou (eds), ΤΕΡΨΙΣ: Studies in

Mediterranean Archaeology in Honour of Nota Kourou, Brussels, CReA-Patrimine,

147-160.

Hekman, J. J. (2003). The Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Chalandriani on Syros (Cyclades,

Greece) (PhD dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).

You can read about the archaeological sites of Korfi t’Aroni on Naxos, Strophilas on

Andros and Vathi on Astypalaia, as well as their striking representations of ships and

animals in the following:

Ντούμας Χ., (1965). ‘Κορφ τ’ Αρωνιού’, Arch.Delt. 20, Meletes, 41-64.

Televantou, C. A. (2008). Strofilas: a Neolithic settlement on Andros. In Brodie N.J., Doole

J., Gavalas G. and Renfrew C. (eds.), Όρίζωυ: A Colloquium on the prehistory of the

Cyclades,Cambridge, 25th-28th March 2004, Mcdonald Institute Monograph Series,

Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Reasearch, 43-53.

Televantou, C. A. (2018). The Roots of Pictorial Art in the Cyclades: from Strophilas to

Akrotiri. In Vlachopoulos, A.G. (eds) Paintbrushes: Wall-painting and Vase-painting of the

Second Millennium BC in Dialogue. University of Ioannina, 43-65.

Vlachopoulos, A., & Angelopoulou, A. (2019). Early cycladic figurines from Vathy,

Astypalaia. In Marthari, M., Boyd, M. J., & Renfrew, C. (eds). Early Cycladic Sculpture in

Context from beyond the Cyclades: From mainland Greece, the north and east Aegean,

202-226.

The reader can find information on the history of the research surrounding prehistoric

rowed Cycladic ships, the evolution of their types, and the various ways of studying them

(including digital media) in the following:

Van de Moortel, A. (2017). A new typology of Bronze Age Aegean ships: developments in

Aegean shipbuilding in their historical context. In Litwin, J. (ed.), Baltic and Βeyond.

Change and continuity in shipbuilding, National Maritime Museum, Gdansk, 263-268.

Tzovaras, P. 2020. Before ‘Thalassocracies’: Reconstructing the ‘Longboat’ and Rethinking

its Use and Social Implications in the 4th and 3rd Millennium South Aegean. In N. Raad

and C. Cabrera Tejedoρ (eds.), Ships, Boats, Ports, Trade, and War in the Mediterranean

and Beyond, Proceedings of the Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium 2018. BAR

publishing, 2020.

What did the sea, currents and winds look like in the Aegean and the Ionian Seas in the

3rd millennium BCE? How did sailors travel with the technology they had at their

disposal. All these are presented in detail in this article:

Agouridis, C. (1997). Sea routes and navigation in the third millennium Aegean. Oxford

Journal of Archaeology, 16(1), 1-24.

For the Maori canoes, but also for other elements of the sea peoples of the Pacific Ocean

the following website is a rich source of information:

https://digitalnz.org/stories/5ad94de2fb002c6f39badbe0

Decorations and emblems on the bow or stern of ships are a diachronic phenomenon.

For a look at figureheads of prehistoric and early historical times, but also of recent past,

one can refer to the writings of Petros Themelis. On the one hand, his informative article

on prehistoric figureheads and their magical properties, and on the other, the fascinating

photographs and excellent text of his book can be found in the following:

Θέμελης, Π.(2017). Το ακρόπρωρο από τα Προϊστορικά στα Αρχαϊκά χρόνια. Στο V.

Vlachou και A. Gadolou (epim.), ΤΕΡΨΙΣ: Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology in Honour

of Nota Kourou, Brussels, CReA-Patrimine, 447-445.

Θέμελης, Π. (2021). Καραβοκύρηδες και Ακρόπρωρα του 1821, Εκδόσεις Καπόν, Αθήνα.