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Prehistoric Mediterranean

Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000BC-AD1800)
edited by John Bintliff and Kostas Sbonias
Archaeology of Populus Monograph in Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Series. Population trends and demographics in general are discussed through a variety of case studies based in Mediterranean Europe. The range of archaeological techniques and methods of analysis includes reginal field surveys, artefact scatter analysis, palaeoanthropology, historical and documentary sources, and studies of cemeteries. 288p with illus (Oxbow Books ...
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State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm
edited by Nicola Terrenato and Donald Haggis
State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean. While comparative approaches to the emergence of political complexity have been applied since the 1950s to Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Peru, Egypt and many other contexts, Classical Archaeology as a whole has not played a particularly active role in this debate. Here, for the ...
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Exotica in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
edited by Andrea Vianello
This book examines how exotic materials were exchanged and used across the Mediterranean from the Neolithic era to the Iron Age, focusing on the Bronze Age. A variety of materials and interpretative approaches are presented through several case studies. These emphasise how the value of exotic materials depended on the context in which they were consumed. The book firmly departs from assumptions of fixed categories such as prestige items or ...
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Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy in the Second Millennium BC
edited by Vasiliki Kassianidou and George Papasavvas
James D. Muhly is a distinguished scholar with a special interest in ancient metallurgy who has dedicated much of his research to Cypriot archaeology. His work on the metallurgy of ancient Cyprus endorses the true importance of the island as a copper producing region, as well as a pioneer in the development and spread of metallurgy and metalwork in the wider eastern and central Mediterranean region. This volume contains papers from "Eastern ...
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Landscape, Ethnicity and Identity in the archaic Mediterranean Area
edited by Gabriele Cifani and Simon Stoddart
The main concern of this volume is the multi-layered concept of ethnicity. Contributors examine and contextualise contrasting definitions of ethnicity and identity as implicit in two perspectives, one from the classical tradition and another from the prehistoric and anthropological tradition. They look at the role of textual sources in reconstructing ethnicity and introduce fresh and innovative archaeological data in reconstructing ethnicity, ...
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South-Eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago
edited by Elena A.A. Garcea
The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near East.

Recent archaeological research in North Africa has meant this region now plays a decisive role in scientific debate. After decades of neglect, the ...
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The Stamp-Seals of Ancient Cyprus
by A T Reyes
Glyptics had a long history in Cyprus; from at least the fourteenth century BC, the island produced seals in significant quantities in a variety of shapes and styles. The cylinders from the Late Bronze Age are well documented, but the stamp-seals which came after them, and preceded the gem industry of classical times, have previously been neglected. This study examines these in order to discover what they reveal about society at the end of the ...
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Tombs, Temples and their Orientations: A New Perspective on Mediterranean Prehistory
by Michael Hoskin
This study of archaeoastronomy looks at more than 2,500 communal tombs and sanctuaries from around the Mediterranean. After a brief discussion of Hoskin's aims and the methodology for his fieldwork, individual chapters focus on evidence from particular regions: Malta, Gozo, the Balearics, Iberia, southern France, Corsica and Sardinia, Sicily and Pantelleria, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. The author concludes that in most of these regions the ...
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Sardinian and Aegean Chronology
edited by Miriam Balmuth and Robert Tykot
Balanced between the Aegean and West Mediterranean worlds, Sardinia offers a perfect laboratory for the investigation of interaction between societies from the Palaeolithic to Roman period. This work has, however, been hampered in the past by incompatible chronologies, so the 46 papers in this volume (originated at an international congress held at Tufts University in 1995) form an important stepping stone for future research. Twelve papers in ...
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The Phoenicians and the West
by Maria Eugenia Aubet
`Between the eighth and sixth centuries BC, the Phoenicians established the first trading system to encompass the entire length of the Mediterranean basin, from their homeland in what is now Lebanon, to colonies in Cyprus, Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain'. This updated and expanded version of the English edition of Aubet's well-reviewed synthesis of archaeological and historical data has now become a classic work on the subject. With ...
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