Brent Davis

Names and Designations of People in Linear A: A Contextual Study of Tablets HT 85 and 117

Brent Davis, Miguel Valerio

Book Chapter  |  2020

NEOTEROS: Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44]

Book  |  2020

Technological Insights on the Philistine Culture: Perspectives from Tell es-Safi/Gath

AM Maeir, D Ben-Shlomo, D Cassuto, JR Chadwick, BE DAVIS, A Eliyahu Behar, S Frumin, S Gur-Arieh, LA Hitchcock, L Kolska Horwitz, F Manclossi, SA Rosen, J Verduci, E Weiss, E Welch, V Workman

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies

More than a century of study of the Philistines has revealed abundant remains of their material culture. Concurrently, our underst..

Curation in the Bronze Age Aegean: Objects as Material Memories

Brent Davis, Emilia Banou, Louise Hitchcock, Anne Chapin

Book Chapter  |  2019  |  Aegaeum

The Minoans appear to have placed a special and even ritual premium on curated objects that stimulated memory, such as heirlooms a..

Painted Larnakes of the Late Minoan III Period: Funerary Iconography and the Stimulation of Memory

Jacob Heywood, Brent Davis

Book Chapter  |  2019

The Phaistos Disk: A New Way of Viewing the Language Behind the Script

Brent Davis

Journal article  |  2018  |  OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY

This paper outlines a new linguistics-based method of investigating the languages behind the undeciphered members of the Bronze Ag..

What Language(s) Did the Philistines Speak?

Brent Davis

Journal article  |  2018  |  NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY

The evidence that we have for the language(s) spoken by the Philistines is not plentiful, but what we do have is interesting (thou..

Literacy in Cyprus and the Levant in the Early Iron Age: Continuities from the Bronze Age

B Davis

Book Chapter  |  2018

Like Dolmen, Like Dromos: Contextualizing the Solar Orientations of Some Mycenaean Tholoi

BE Davis, AP Chapin, E Banou, LA HITCHCOCK

Book Chapter  |  2017  |  Aegaeum

It has been observed that the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae, the most famous Mycenaean tholos tomb, is oriented to the point on th..

Cypro-Minoan in Marking Systems of the Eastern and Central Mediterranean: New Insights into Old Problems

M Valério, B Davis

Book Chapter  |  2017

This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script and the boundaries of non-scribal comm..