Open Access volumes in the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems series
Early Greek Alphabetic Writing: A Linguistic Approach (CREWS Vol. 5)
Natalia Elvira Astoreca 2021. Oxbow. ISBN: 9781789257434.
Open access version (CC BY)
The Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems: Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite and Greek (CREWS Vol. 4)
Robert S. D. Crellin 2022. Oxbow. ISBN: 9781789256772.
Open access version (CC BY)
Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
Philip J. Boyes 2021. Oxbow. ISBN: 9781789255836 Open Access version (CC BY)The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices
Edited by Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele and Natalia Elvira Astoreca 2021. Oxbow. ISBN: 9781789254785 Open Access version (CC BY)‘Material entanglements of writing practices in the Bronze Age Aegean and Cyprus’
Philippa M. Steele 2020. In Steel, L. (ed.) Exploring Materiality in the Bronze Age, special issue of Sustainability 12, 1-17.‘Vowel quantity and quality in Neo-Punic and Latin inscriptions from Africa and Sardinia’
Robert Crellin
2020. In Aaron Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan (eds.) Studies in Semitic Vocalisation and Reading Traditions, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 1-53.
Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets
Edited by Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele
2019. Oxbow. ISBN: 9781789250923
Open Access version (CC BY).
‘Negotiating Imperialism and Resistance in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: The Rise of Alphabetic Cuneiform’
Philip J. Boyes
2019. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29.2, 185-199
Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
Philippa M. Steele
2018. Cambridge University Press.
Open access version of Chapter 1: The Advent of Literacy on Cyprus
‘Escritura e Identidad: el caso de Pafos’
Natalia Elvira Astoreca
2018. In Balda Baranda, A. and Redondo-Moyano, E. (eds.) Opera Selecta. Estudios sobre el mundo clásico, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 35-43.
‘Introduction to the Persian Harmony of the Gospels’
Robert Crellin
2018. In Hassanabadi, M., Jahani, R. and Jahani, C. (eds.), A Unified Gospel in Persian, Uppsala, vii-xvii
‘Other Pre-Alphabetic Scripts of Greece and Cyprus’
Philippa M. Steele
2017. In Galanakis, Y., Christophilopoulou, A. and Grime, J. (eds.) Codebreakers and Groundbreakers, Cambridge, 43-51
The whole exhibition catalogue can be downloaded here.
‘Writing ‘systems’: Literacy and the transmission of writing in non-administrative contexts’
Philippa M. Steele
2017. In Jasink, E.M., Weingarten, J. and Ferrara, S. (eds.) Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas: The semantics of a-literate and proto-literate media, Periploi 9, Firenze, 81-100.
‘Linear A and Linear B: Structural and contextual concerns’
Torsten Meissner & Philippa M. Steele
2017. In Nosch, M-.L. and Landenius Enegren, H. (eds.) Aegean Scripts. Proceedings of the 14th Mycenological Colloquium 2-6 September, Copenhagen 2015, Incunabula Graeca Vol. CV, 1, Rome, 99-114.
Open access version (or here)
From Linear B to Linear A: The problem of the backward projection of sound values
Philippa M. Steele & Torsten Meissner
2017. In Steele, P.M. (ed.) Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems, Oxford, 93-110.
Open access (published) version (or here)
CREWS project research is all published with open access, in compliance with the regulations of our funding body, the European Research Council (under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant no. 677758). We are committed to making our research accessible to all.
The publications listed above are the ones that have already appeared, but we have many more in the pipeline (some in preparation, others under review or in press) and will update this page as they appear.
And see AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies