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Susan Langdon

University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion, Emerita

University of Missouri Columbia, Art History and Archaeology, Faculty Member

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Early Corinthian Jointed Dolls: Context, Meaning, and Diffusion

Hesperia, 2024

Of the many innovations made by Corinthian coroplasts, the most distinctive may be the Classical-... more Of the many innovations made by Corinthian coroplasts, the most distinctive may be the Classical-period jointed dolls. Scholarship connects the nude figures with the rituals of girls' maturation and preparation for marriage. Largely overlooked are jointed dolls in chitoniskos and polos, presumed forerunners of the nudes. Over 40 specimens excavated at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth offer an opportunity to understand the development of dolls within their Corinthian religious and social setting. This investigation reveals a dozen Archaizing types and tracks their dissemination across the Greekspeaking world. Far from a brief prelude to Classical dolls, the early figurines bear witness to cult developments and previously undetected rituals in Corinth.

Changing States: Daily Lives of Children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece

Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, eds. Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon, Nicola Harrington, eds. , 2021

List of gures xiv List of tables xix List of contributors xx List of abbreviations xxvi Introduct... more

Shaping Religious Change: Experimental Modeling in Archaic Corinthian Figurines

“Quand on a la terre sous l’ongle”: Le modelage dans le monde grec antique, Bibliothèque d’Archéologie Méditerranénne et Africaine [BiAMA], Centre Camille Jullian, Aix-en-Provence. , 2022

Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece I: The Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts. By C. N. Runnels, D. J. Pullen, and S. Langdon

American Journal of Archaeology, 1996

An academic directory and search engine.

From Monkey to Man: The Evolution of a Geometric Sculptural Type

American Journal of Archaeology, 1990

... 12. 41 R. Higgins, The Aegina Treasure (London 1979) 26 fig. 17, 64; R. Higgins, Greek andRom... more

The Return of the Horse-Leader

American Journal of Archaeology, 1989

... 190 SUSAN LANGDON ... In a cosmic scene on a bronze plaque from Patsos a man, in the presence... more

Views of Wealth, a Wealth of Views: Grave Goods in Iron Age Attica

is literally a "five-hundred-measure man," referring to the highest propertied class of Athens, w... more is literally a "five-hundred-measure man," referring to the highest propertied class of Athens, whose land produced that many dry or liquid measures annually. For the exhibition, Ober and Hedrick 1993: 43 (catalog entries by Diane Buitron-Oliver and John Camp); first publication of granaries, Smithson 1968: 96.

Les chevaux de bronze dans l'art géométrique grec

American Journal of Archaeology, 1991

Book Review of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain 25. The British Museum 11: Greek Geometric Pottery

American Journal of Archaeology, 2011

From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer

American Journal of Archaeology, 1995

Greek Geometric Bronzes and the Consequences of Esteem: The Case of the Menil Fawn

Object Biographies Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art, 2021

Archaic Votive Figurines from the Sanctuary of Demeter at Corinth

Les Carnets de l'ACoSt Association for Coroplastic Studies , 2019

Ends and Means of Childhood.pdf

Seeking Social life in the Early Iron Age Cyclades, 107-118 in J.-P. Descoeudres and S. Paspalas, eds., ZAGORA IN CONTEXT: SETTLEMENTS AND INTERCOMMUNAL LINKS IN THE GEOMETRIC PERIOD (900-700 BC). Mediterranean Archaeology vol. 25, 2015.

Geometric Pottery for Beginners: Children and Production in Early Greece

by Susan Langdon and Manolis Mikrakis

The Sanctuaries of Artemis Mounichia and Zeus Parnessios i n V. Vlachou (ed.), Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society, Bruxelles 2015, 155-180 (with Ev. Vivliodetis)

by Lydia Palaiokrassa, Nota Kourou, Susan Langdon, Manolis Mikrakis, and Αναστασία Γκαδόλου

Views of Wealth, a Wealth of Views: Grave Goods in Iron Age Attica

Beyond the Grave: Biographies from Early Greece

Gift Exchange in Geometric Sanctuaries

Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece [proof copy]

Early Corinthian Jointed Dolls: Context, Meaning, and Diffusion

Hesperia, 2024

Of the many innovations made by Corinthian coroplasts, the most distinctive may be the Classical-... more Of the many innovations made by Corinthian coroplasts, the most distinctive may be the Classical-period jointed dolls. Scholarship connects the nude figures with the rituals of girls' maturation and preparation for marriage. Largely overlooked are jointed dolls in chitoniskos and polos, presumed forerunners of the nudes. Over 40 specimens excavated at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth offer an opportunity to understand the development of dolls within their Corinthian religious and social setting. This investigation reveals a dozen Archaizing types and tracks their dissemination across the Greekspeaking world. Far from a brief prelude to Classical dolls, the early figurines bear witness to cult developments and previously undetected rituals in Corinth.

Changing States: Daily Lives of Children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece

Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, eds. Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon, Nicola Harrington, eds. , 2021

List of gures xiv List of tables xix List of contributors xx List of abbreviations xxvi Introduct... more

Shaping Religious Change: Experimental Modeling in Archaic Corinthian Figurines

“Quand on a la terre sous l’ongle”: Le modelage dans le monde grec antique, Bibliothèque d’Archéologie Méditerranénne et Africaine [BiAMA], Centre Camille Jullian, Aix-en-Provence. , 2022

Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece I: The Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts. By C. N. Runnels, D. J. Pullen, and S. Langdon

American Journal of Archaeology, 1996

An academic directory and search engine.

From Monkey to Man: The Evolution of a Geometric Sculptural Type

American Journal of Archaeology, 1990

... 12. 41 R. Higgins, The Aegina Treasure (London 1979) 26 fig. 17, 64; R. Higgins, Greek andRom... more

The Return of the Horse-Leader

American Journal of Archaeology, 1989

... 190 SUSAN LANGDON ... In a cosmic scene on a bronze plaque from Patsos a man, in the presence... more

Views of Wealth, a Wealth of Views: Grave Goods in Iron Age Attica

is literally a "five-hundred-measure man," referring to the highest propertied class of Athens, w... more is literally a "five-hundred-measure man," referring to the highest propertied class of Athens, whose land produced that many dry or liquid measures annually. For the exhibition, Ober and Hedrick 1993: 43 (catalog entries by Diane Buitron-Oliver and John Camp); first publication of granaries, Smithson 1968: 96.

Les chevaux de bronze dans l'art géométrique grec

American Journal of Archaeology, 1991

Book Review of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain 25. The British Museum 11: Greek Geometric Pottery

American Journal of Archaeology, 2011

From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer

American Journal of Archaeology, 1995

Greek Geometric Bronzes and the Consequences of Esteem: The Case of the Menil Fawn

Object Biographies Collaborative Approaches to Ancient Mediterranean Art, 2021

Archaic Votive Figurines from the Sanctuary of Demeter at Corinth

Les Carnets de l'ACoSt Association for Coroplastic Studies , 2019

Ends and Means of Childhood.pdf

Seeking Social life in the Early Iron Age Cyclades, 107-118 in J.-P. Descoeudres and S. Paspalas, eds., ZAGORA IN CONTEXT: SETTLEMENTS AND INTERCOMMUNAL LINKS IN THE GEOMETRIC PERIOD (900-700 BC). Mediterranean Archaeology vol. 25, 2015.

Geometric Pottery for Beginners: Children and Production in Early Greece

by Susan Langdon and Manolis Mikrakis

The Sanctuaries of Artemis Mounichia and Zeus Parnessios i n V. Vlachou (ed.), Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society, Bruxelles 2015, 155-180 (with Ev. Vivliodetis)

by Lydia Palaiokrassa, Nota Kourou, Susan Langdon, Manolis Mikrakis, and Αναστασία Γκαδόλου

Views of Wealth, a Wealth of Views: Grave Goods in Iron Age Attica

Beyond the Grave: Biographies from Early Greece

Gift Exchange in Geometric Sanctuaries

Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece [proof copy]

ART AND IDENTITY IN DARK AGE GREECE, 1100-700 BCE. New York and London: Cambridge University Press 2008, paperback 2010

Pots, Workshops and Early Iron Age Society. Function and Role of Ceramics in Early Greece, edited by V. Vlachou, Études d’archéologie 8, Brussels: CReA-Patrimoine, 2015

by Vicky VLACHOU, Nota Kourou, Εvangelia Simantoni-Bournia, Susan Langdon, and Manolis Mikrakis