Dr Lisa Bendall

Sinclair & Rachel Hood Lecturer in Aegean Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology

Institute of Archaeology
36 Beaumont Street, Oxford
Oxford,
OX1 2PG

Tel: (01865) 278244
Fax: (01865) 272720

lisa.bendall@arch.ox.ac.uk

http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/resources/staff_directory/lisa_bendall

Research Interests

Aegean Prehistory; Linear B and other Bronze Age Aegean Scripts; anthropological approaches to Mycenaean religion, festivals and banqueting; archives, ancient and modern; history of decipherment; economic history.

Selected Recent Publications

2003: The Decipherment of Linear B and the Ventris-Chadwick Correspondence. Exhibition Catalogue. The Mycenaean Epigraphy Group and the Chadwick Fund, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge.
2003: ‘A reconsideration of the Northeastern Building at Pylos: Evidence for a Mycenaean redistributive centre.’ American Journal of Archaeology, 107:181-232.
2004: ‘Fit for a king? Exclusion, hierarchy, aspiration and desire in the social structure of Mycenaean banqueting.’ In: Halstead, P. & Barrett, J. eds. Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece. Proceedings of the 10th Aegean Round Table, University of Sheffield, January 19-21, 2001. Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 5. Oxbow, Oxford:105-135.
2007: Economics of Religion in the Mycenaean World. Resources Dedicated to Religion in the Mycenaean Palace Economy. Oxford University School of Archaeology, Monograph Number 67. Oxford
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/82633.
2008: ‘How much makes a feast? Amounts of banqueting foodstuffs in the Linear B records of Pylos’, In: Sacconi, A., Del Freo, M., Godart, L. & Negri, M. eds. Colloquium Romanum. Atti del XII Colloquio Internazionale di Micenologia. Roma, 20-25 Febbraio 2006, Biblioteca di Pasiphae, Rome, 77-101.

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