The land of Fertility II : the South East Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest /
: Contributions are based on papers presented at the second international conference on "The Land of Fertility" held at the Institute of Archaeology at the Jagiellonian in Krakow in June 2015. : viii, 134 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. : 9781443891257
Precious commodities : the socio-economic implications of the distribution of juglets in the eastern Mediterranean during the Middle and Late Bronze Age /
: Originally presented as: Ph. D. -- University College London, 2013. : xii, 203 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. : 9781407315652
Destruction and its impact on ancient societies at the end of the Bronze Age /
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"This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and challenges the numerous grand theories that have been put forward to account for them. The author demonstrates that earthquakes, warfare, and destruction all played a much smaller role in this period than the literature of the past several decades has claimed, and makes the case that the end of the Late Bronze Age was a far less dramatic and more protracted process than is generally believed"--
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xiv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781948488839
1177 B.C. : the year civilization collapsed /
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"In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages," Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age -- and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece" --
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OCLC 861542115 :
xx, 237 pages : illustrations, Maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-228) and index. :
9780691140896
Stone anchors in antiquity : costal settlements and maritime trade-routes in the eastern Mediterranean ca. 1600-1050 B.C. /
: Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)- University of California, Santa Barbara. : xi, 145 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. : Bibliography : pages 136-145. : 9185058963 (paberback)
Vitreous materials in the late Bronze Age Aegean /
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Papers originally presented at the 9th annual Round Table of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology. :
xxiii, 232 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustration (some color), maps ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781842172612
1842172611
Ceramics, cuisine and culture : the archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world /
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"The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian 'technomic' category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioural schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence"--Publisher's information.
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viii, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781782979470
9781782979487