Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean

Evangelia Kiriatzi & Carl Knappett (επιμέλεια)

City: Cambridge

Year: 2016

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Series: British School at Athens Studies in Greek Antiquity

Description: Hardback, 278 p., numerous b/w tables and figures, 25.5 x 18 cm.

Abstract

The diverse forms of regional connectivity in the ancient world have recently become an important focus for those interested in the deep history of globalisation. This volume represents a significant contribution to this new trend as it engages thematically with a wide range of connectivities in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean, from the later Neolithic of northern Greece to the Levantine Iron Age, and with diverse forms of materiality, from pottery and metal to stone and glass. With theoretical overviews from leading thinkers in prehistoric mobilities, and commentaries from top specialists in neighbouring domains, the volume integrates detailed case studies within a comparative framework. The result is a thorough treatment of many of the key issues of regional interaction and technological diversity facing archaeologists working across diverse places and periods. As this book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory, it will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to ancient historians, historians and anthropologists.

Contents

List of Figures and Maps [ix-xi]
List of Tables [xii]
List of Contributors [xiii-xiv]
Foreword [xv-xvi]
Acknowledgements [xvii]

1. Technological Mobilities: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean – An Introduction [1-17]
Carl Knappett & Evangelia Kiriatzi

2. The Transmitting Sea: A Mediterranean Perspective [18-30]
Cyprian Broodbank

3. Changing Pottery Technology in the Later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece [31-45]
Dushka Urem-Kotsou

4. Mobility and Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Metal Production [46-67]
Myrto Georgakopoulou

5. Stonemasons and Craft Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean [68-93]
Andrew Bevan & Elizabeth Bloxam

6. Towards an Understanding of the Origin of Late Bronze Age Greek Glass [94-101]
Andrew J. Shortland

7. Mobilities in the Neopalatial Southern Aegean: The Case of Minoanisation [102-115]
Irene Nikolakopoulou & Carl Knappett

8. The Archaeological Signatures of Mobility: A Technological Look at ‘Aegeanising’ Pottery from the Northern Levant at the End of the 2nd Millennium BC [116-127]
Marie-Claude Boileau

9. Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising Pottery across the Mediterranean: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Technological Mobility, Transmission and Appropriation [128-153]
Evangelia Kiriatzi & Stelios Andreou

10. Interpreting Bronze Age Trade and Migration [154-180]
Kristian Kristiansen

11. Commentary: States and Technological Mobility – A View from the West [181-192]
Emma Blake

12. Commentary: On Fluxes, Connections and their Archaeological Manifestations [193-205]
Olivier P. Gosselain

Bibliography [206-271]
Index [272-278]