There and Back Again: Afro-Eurasian Exchange in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Periods

Contents

Foreword: Old Assumptions Die Hard – Shereen Ratnagar

Introduction – Marie Nicole Pareja, Robert Arnott

Chapter 1: Crossing Continents: between the Indus and the Aegean in prehistory – Robert Arnott

Chapter 2: Indus-Aegean Interaction in the 3rd millennium BC – Geoffrey E. Ludvik, J. Mark Kenoyer

Chapter 3: Junction Points: New Evidence for Long-Distance Trade between Minoan Crete and the East – Susan C. Ferrence, Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, Philip P. Betancourt, Metaxia Tsipopoulou

Chapter 4: Fierce Femmes: On the Syncretic Nature of the Bronze Age Divine in Afro-Eurasia – Marie N. Pareja

Chapter 5: The Iconography of Game Animals in Afro-Eurasia and Disease – Amanda N. Porter

Chapter 6: The ancient views of India and Ethiopia as evidence for intercultural contacts between Bronze Age India and the Mediterranean – Asterios-Evangelos Kechagias

Chapter 7: Ḫumbaba the elephant? On eastern elements in the Standard Babylonian Gilgameš epic – Sureshkumar Muthukumaran

Chapter 8: Babylonia abroad in the Kassite period – Tim Clayden

Chapter 9: Relations between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age: Assessing the limited
linguistic evidence – Stephen P. B. Durnford

About the Author

Dr. Marie N. Pareja is an archaeologist and art historian who specialises in Indus-Aegean Prehistory and lime plaster (frescoes). She is the executive director of the Aegean Bronze Age Study Initiative (ABASI), serves as consulting scholar for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, assistant professor at Marshall University, and works for the Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project, Mochlos Archaeological Project, and Sissi Archaeological Project.



Professor Robert Arnott† was a Fellow of Green Templeton College in the University of Oxford. An archaeologist who specialised in ancient disease and medicine, he authored or edited five books and over seventy, mostly single-authored, papers. Recently, his interest turned to India and his books and papers centred on health, healing and disease in the Indus Civilisation, 2600-1900 BCE, and relations between the Indus and the Aegean in the Bronze Age. He was a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.