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Aegean Prehistory

From Minos to Midas: Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia
by Brendan Burke
Textile production was of greater value and importance to people in the past than any other social craft activity: everyone depended on cloth. As with other craft goods, such as pottery, metal objects, or ivory carving, the large-scale production and exchange of textiles required specialization and some degree of centralization.

This book takes an explicitly economic approach to textile production, focusing on regional centers, most ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age: Papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee 22-24 February 2007
edited by Daniel J. Pullen
This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at the Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities within the Aegean Bronze Age, including the issues of centralization and multiple scales of production, distribution, and consumption within a ...
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The Aigina Treasure: Aegean Bronze Age Jewellery and a Mystery Revisited
edited by J. Lesley Fitton
Since its arrival at the British Museum in 1891 the Aigina Treasure a group of Greek Bronze Age gold jewellery and other objects that is believed to come from the island of Aigina has been shrouded in mystery and speculation. The many uncertainties about the Treasure include its place of origin; whether all the objects are from the same findspot; and whether it should be considered as a homogenous group. Through examination of stylistic elements ...
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Vitreous Material in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: A Window to the East Mediterranean World
edited by Caroline Jackson and Emma Wager
The explosion of research in the field of ancient and historic glasses has opened up glass studies in recent years. However, our deeper understanding of the technology and provenance of Bronze Age Egyptian and Roman glasses in the Mediterranean has not been mirrored by our studies of glasses and other vitreous materials found in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. There are few studies which collate the material culture of the region and still fewer ...
Paperback. Price GB £32.00

Cooking up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean
edited by Christopher Mee and Josette Renard
This volume focuses on the ways in which the production and consumption of food developed in the Aegean region in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, to see how this was linked to the appearance of more complex forms of social organisation. Sites from Macedonia in the north of Greece down to Crete are discussed and chronologically the papers cover not only the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age but extend into the Middle and Late Bronze Age and ...
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Invention and Innovation: The Social Context of Technological Change II, Egypt, the Aegean and the Near East, 1650-1150 B.C.
edited by Janine Bourriau and Jacke Phillips
In September 2002, a second workshop on the theme of the social context of technological change was held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. Discussion has been the core of these meetings so far, with the aim being to relate the results of the specialist investigator to broad historical questions concerning the nature and development of ancient societies. The papers presented here address a wider ...
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The Archaeology of Heinrich Schliemann: An Annotated Bibliographic Handlist
by Curtis Runnels
Heinrich Schliemann is perhaps the most famous archaeologist and pioneer of new excavation techniques although his ethics, the virtues of his public and private life and his his lifestory have been the subject of speculation and debate. This study presents an annotated handlist of Schliemann's published works on the prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean world. Entries are arranged chronologically by the year they were published and are ...
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Well Built Mycenae, Fascicule 16/17: The Post-Palatial Levels
by E.B. French, with contributions by Gordon Hillman and Susan Sherratt
The post-palatial period - Late Helladic IIIC - is often seen as the twilight years of Mycenean civilisation, a period of economic decline with few achievements in terms of architecture, materials or technology. Excavation in the Citadel House area at Mycenae afforded unique opportunities to explore stratified remains of this period and to define and describe its character. In this fascicule, Dr. Elizabeth French presents her full report on the ...
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Mochlos IB: Period III. Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The Neopalatial Pottery
by Kellee A Barnard and Thomas M Brogan
Mochlos is a Minoan town set on a fine harbour at the eastern side of the Gulf of Mirabello, in northeast Crete. It was first inhabited during the Neolithic period, and it had an important Minoan settlement during most of the Bronze Age. Mochlos I, to be published in three volumes, presents the results of the excavations in the Neopalatial levels of the Artisans' Quarter, and at the farmhouse at Chalinomouri. The Artisans' Quarter ...
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The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption
by Jan Driessen and Colin MacDonald
With a large amount of supporting evidence, this book argues that a sequence of changes in society triggered by the Santorini eruption, caused the collapse of Late Minoan IA/IB culture. The argument itself is not new but the careful study of the processes ...
Hardback. Price GB £85.00