Dr P. J. P. McGeorge

Books

• McGeorge, P. J. P. Human Sacrifice: The Archaeological Context of Greek Mythology — ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΘΥΣΙΑ: Το αρχαιολογικό πλαίσιο της ελληνικής μυθολογίας. Athens: Mediterranean Anthropological Society / Kedros, 2024.
• Paschalidis, Constantinos, and P. J. P. McGeorge. The LMIII Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia. BAR International Series 1917. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009.
• Hallager, Birgitta P., and P. J. P. McGeorge. Late Minoan III Burials at Khania. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology XCIII. Göteborg: Paul Åströms Förlag, 1992.

Selected Publications

• McGeorge, P. J. P. “A Burial of the Early Christian Period in the Sanctuary at Symi.” Eulimene 23 (2023): 97–107. https://doi.org/10.12681/eul.36311.
• Skourtanioti, Eirini, Harald Ringbauer, Guido A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, et al. (incl. P. J. P. McGeorge). “Ancient DNA Reveals Admixture History and Endogamy in the Prehistoric Aegean.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 7 (2023): 290–303. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01952-3.
• Neumann, Gunnar U., Eirini Skourtanioti, … P. J. P. McGeorge, … and Philipp W. Stockhammer. “Ancient Yersinia pestis and Salmonella enterica Genomes from Bronze Age Crete.” Current Biology 32, no. 16 (2022).
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Ανάδειξη αρχαιολογικού χώρου Καβειρίου Λήμνου [The Enhancement of the Archaeological Site of Kaveirio, Lemnos].” Edited by P. Triantafyllidis. Mytilene: Archaeological Ephorate of Lesbos, forthcoming.
• ———. “Anthropological Remains from Mycenaean Tombs at Kompotadhes in the Spercheios Valley: First Impressions.” In Η Περιφέρεια του Μυκηναϊκού Κόσμου (3rd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Lamia, 18 May 2018), 2021.
• McGeorge, P. J. P., et al. “A Palaeopathological Investigation of Geopoiesis of a 5th-Century BC Brain from Tenos.” In Palaeo-Oncology: The Antiquity of Cancer (Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium, Athens 2020), 69–79.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Palaeo-Oncological Findings from Prehistoric Crete.” In Palaeo-Oncology: The Antiquity of Cancer (Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium, Athens 2020), 81–91.
• ———. “Post-Mycenaean Burials from Lindos.” In Ημερίδα στη Μνήμη του Καθηγητή Σπύρου Ιακωβίδη, 243–249. Athens: University of Athens, 2019.
• Paschalidis, Constantinos, P. J. P. McGeorge, and Wiesław Więckowski. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Achaia Clauss near Patras. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Human Skeletons from a Late Minoan IIIA2–B Chamber Tomb at Galia in the Messara.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 142, no. 1 (2015 [2018]): 49–70. https://doi.org/10.4000/bch.286.
• ———. “Platyvola Cave: Archaeological Context and Carbon-14 Dates.” Addendum in N. Stampolidis and P. Sotirakopoulou, Cycladica in Crete, 446. Rethymnon: University of Crete / Museum of Cycladic Art, 2017.
• ———. “The Early Cycladic Infant Burials at Akrotiri.” In 40th Anniversary of the Akrotiri Excavations, edited by C. Doumas. Athens: Archaeological Society at Athens, forthcoming.
• ———. “The Pit L Baby Burial — Hermeneutics: Implications for Immigration into Kydonia in MM III/LM I.” Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens 8 (2017): 293–304.
• Lazaridis, Iosif, Alissa Mittnik, Nick Patterson, et al. (incl. P. J. P. McGeorge). “Genetic Origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans.” Nature 548 (2017): 214–218. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23310.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Due Sepolture a Enchytrismos del TM IIIB all’Interno di una Casa a Festos.” Pasiphae X (2016): 145–176.
• ———. “Pithos Burials at Pre-Eruption Thera.” In 10th ICAANE (2016). Vienna: OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, forthcoming.
• McGeorge, P. J. P., and L. Vance Watrous. “Minoan Burials under the Phylakeion at Gournia, East Crete.” In 10th ICAANE (2016). Vienna: OREA, forthcoming.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “The Earliest Evidence for a Mycenaean Greek Ritual Form of Human Sacrifice.” Pasiphae IX (2015): 43–51.
• ———. “Intramural Infant Burials in the Aegean Bronze Age: Reflections on Symbolism and Eschatology.” In Le Mort dans la Ville, edited by Olivier Henry. Istanbul: IFÉA Georges Dumézil – CNRS USR 3131, 2013.
• ———. Review of The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square, Kastelli, Khania … Vol. IV. The Classical Review 63, no. 1 (2013): 228–230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X12003150.
• ———. “An Intramural Burial at the Early Christian Basilica of Kato Symi: A Death in Childbirth?” Forthcoming.
• Karantzali, Efi, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Η διαχρονική χρήση του νεκροταφείου στον Προφήτη Ηλία στις Κομποτάδες Φθιώτιδας [Human Bones from an LH IIIC Tomb at Kompotades, Lamia].” In Φθιωτική Ιστορία (Proceedings of the 5th Conference), 51–94. 2013.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Trauma, Surgery and Prehistoric Events.” In Πεπραγμένα Ι΄ Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου (10th Cretological Congress, 2006), vol. A1, 299–313. Chania: Φιλολογικός Σύλλογος «Ο Χρυσόστομος», 2011.
• ———. “The Intramural Jar Burial at Petras: Context, Symbolism & Eschatology.” In Petras, Siteia — 25 Years of Excavations and Studies, 291 ff. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16. Athens, 2011.
• Paschalidis, Constantinos, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Life and Death in the Periphery of the Mycenaean World … The Case of the Achaea Klauss Cemetery.” In From the Aegean to the Adriatic, edited by E. Borgna (Udine, 1–2 December 2006), 2010.
• Paschalidis, Constantinos, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “The Cremation Burial from Plakalona, Tourloti.” In The LMIII Cemetery at Tourloti, Siteia. BAR International Series 1917. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Gender Meta-analysis of LBA Skeletal Remains: The Case of Tomb 2 in the Pylona Cemetery on Rhodes.” In Fylo: Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, edited by K. Kopaka. Aegaeum 30 (2009): 103–114.[Editorial confusion omitted the first table column and altered her first name to “Penelope.”]
• Betancourt, Philip P., and P. J. P. McGeorge. “The Human Remains.” In “Excavations in the Hagios Charalambos Cave: A Preliminary Report.” Hesperia 77 (2008): 578–596. https://doi.org/10.2972/hesp.77.4.539.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Morbidity & Medical Practice in Minoan Crete.” Chap. 15 in From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000–1100 B.C. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2008.
• ———. “Intramural Infant Burials in the Aegean.” In The Greek-Swedish Excavations at the Agia Aikaterini Square, Kastelli, Khania 1970–1987 & 2001, edited by E. and B. P. Hallager, vol. III:1, 301–303. 2003.
• Karantzali, Efi, and P. J. P. McGeorge. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Rhodes. BAR IS Vol. 9881. Oxford, 2001.
• Karantzali, Efi, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Siamese Twins in Rhodes / Σιαμαία δίδυμα στη Ρόδο.” In Η Πόλη της Ρόδου (Proceedings), vol. A, 153–162. 1995.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “Οι άνθρωποι της Πυλώνας / The People of Pylona.” In Η Περιφέρεια του Μυκηναϊκού Κόσμου Α΄, edited by F. Dacoronia, 301–302. Lamia, 1994.
• ———. Article and video film of the Pyre Burial and Human Sacrifice from Eleutherna (subsequently used by the excavator). See N. Ch. Stampolidis, Eleutherna (Rethymnon, 1994) and Antipoina (Rethymnon, 1996).
• ———. “Ανθρωπολογία – Μέθοδοι και Τεχνικές / Anthropology – Methods and Techniques.” Κρητική Εστία (1991): 11–24.
• ———. “Mean Life Expectation of the Minoans.” In Proceedings of the 6th Cretological Congress, 419–428. 1990.
• ———. “Μυθικοί Πυγμαίοι και Γίγαντες / Mythical Pygmies and Giants: New Data on the Stature of the Minoans.” Κρητική Εστία 2 (1988): 9–18.
• ———. “Health and Diet in Minoan Times.” In New Aspects of Archaeological Science in Greece, edited by R. Jones and H. Catling, 47–54. BSA Occasional Paper 3. Athens: Fitch Laboratory, 1988.
• ———. “Νέα Στοιχεία για το Μέσο όρο Ζωής στη Μινωική Κρήτη / New Data for Mean Age at Death in Minoan Crete.” Κρητική Εστία 1 (1987): 9–15.
• ———. “Biosocial Evolution in Bronze Age Crete.” In Ειλαπίνη / Eilapini: Volume in Honour of Professor Nicholas Platon, 408–416. Heraklion, 1987.
• Andreadaki-Vlazaki, Maria, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “An Early Greek Child Burial at Gavalomouri.” Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici XXVI (1987). Rome.
• McGeorge, P. J. P., and E. Mavroudis. “The Incidence of Osteoporosis in Bronze Age Crete.” Journal of Paleopathology 1 (1987): 37.
• McGeorge, P. J. P. “A Comparative Study of the Mean Life Expectation of the Minoans.” In Πεπραγμένα του ΣΤ΄ Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου A1 (1986). Chania, 1990.
• ———. “Έγκλημα στην Υστερομινωική Περίοδο [Crime in the Late Minoan Period].” Αρχαιολογία 11 (1984): 12–16.[Re-published in French as “Enquête sur un meurtre” (Archéologie, May 1986) under the name Photini Thomai — plagiarized word for word.]
• ———. “Preliminary Report: Human Skeletons from the Armenoi Excavation 1976.” Αρχαιολογικά Ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών XIII, no. 2 (1981).
• Olivier, Jean-Pierre, and P. J. P. McGeorge. “Mallia: I. Fouille de Sauvetage en B7/c2; II. Fouille d’Urgence de l’Entrée du «Charnier No. 4» en C4/5-6.” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (1977): 701–703.

Conference Papers (unpublished)

• 2009 — Invited speaker opening the Conference of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Heraklion, Crete.
• 1988 — Anthropological Society Conference, Athens: papers presented “On Osteoporosis” and “On Stature in the Late Bronze Age.”
• 1987 — Histoire de Médecine Conference, Antibes, France: paper on Minoan orthopaedics.
• 1986 — Centenary Conference of the British School at Athens, Cambridge, England: paper “Investigating Patriarchy and Matriarchy and the Form of Marriage in Late Bronze Age Crete through Non-metrical Variation and Consideration of the Possibilities Offered by DNA Analysis of Human Remains.”