Draft of a long article that I have submitted for publication in to the journal Minos. In it I given a Linear B term a new interpretation (thoroughly criticizing the prevailing one in the process) and then explore the archaeological implications of my interpretation.
Poster (JPEG) that accompanied my presentation at the "Forces of Transformation: The End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean" conference at Oxford University in March 2006.
Lecture notes and slide show (PowerPoint) for class at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
My PhD dissertation was an interpretation of the evidence of personal interrelationships in the Linear B tablets from the so called "Palace of Nestor" at Pylos in the south-western Peloponnese, mainland Greece. PRAP was the project I was attached to one summer in the course of my doctoral research. This website contains annual reports, a generator of archaeological maps of the region, and relevant links.
An archaeological survey just to the south of Pylos, which Prof. Michael Cosmopoulos of the University of Missouri is leading. I hope to conduct an archaeological geophysical survey here in 2008 in search of Mycenaean agricultural field systems.
IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I MEAN BY "LINEAR B", AND IF YOU CARE, HAVE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE SITES LINKED BELOW.
One of the most important centres in the Anglophone world for the study of the Greek bronze-age Linear B script is at Cambridge University. This website provides basic information on the decipherment and meaning of the Linear B texts, as well as on continuing research into and teaching about Linear B in the Faculty of Classics.
Another leading centre in the study of Aegean archaeology and linear scripts -- including Linear A, Linear B and Cypro-Minoan -- is in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas. This website has a great deal of information on linear scripts, specialist journals and relevant conferences, as well as a comprehensive, searchable annotated index of Studies in Mediterranean Inscriptions and Dialects
This is the on-line version of the bibliographic newletter for Aegean prehistory (including studies in linear inscriptions) established by the venerable Emmett Bennett Jr. The database is searchable.
If you want to try your cryptographic and linguistic skills on the yet undeciphered Linear A script from Crete, John Younger has provided you with a great resource here.
John Younger also maintains a long, rambling list of links, which is nevertheless still useful to archaeologists and classicists.
Last updated on 27 August 2007.