Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford Oxbow Books 2020 Edition: 1stISBN: 9780000000000Subject(s): Bronze age--Cyprus | Bronze Age--Greece | Civilization, Mycenaean | Crete (Greece)--Antiquities | Palaces--Greece--History, AncientItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | The BIAA David H. French Library Shelf 30 - Main Room | E MIDDL 32004 | Not for loan | BOOKS-000000024885 |
Introductory chapters discuss notions of collapse, and provide an overview the Mycenaean collapse. These are followed by twelve chapters, which review the evidence from the major regions of the Aegean, including the Argolid, Messenia, and Boeotia, Crete, and the Aegean islands. Six chapters then address key themes: the economy, funerary practices, the Mycenaean pottery of the mainland and the wider Aegean and eastern Mediterranean region, religion, and the extent to which later Greek myth can be drawn upon as evidence or taken to reflect any historical reality. The final four chapters provide a wider context for the Aegean story, surveying the eastern Mediterranean, including Cyprus and the Levant, and the themes of subsistence and warfare.