Aegean / Mediterranean Prehistory
The Prehistory of the Aegean and Mediterranean, including the great Bronze Age Helladic, Minoan and Cycladic civilizations, and the Mycenaeans and Etruscans.
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The Minoan Body: A Somatic Approach to Social, Economic and Political Change in Bronze Age Crete [Hardback]
Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9781472414403
Published by : Routledge
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The human body has been under-researched in the field of Minoan archaeology and understandings about the Cretan Bronze Age have often relied on data not directly related to the human body, such as pottery and architecture. While methodologically i... .... Learn More -
Keos XI: Ayia Irini: The Wall Paintings of the Northeast Bastion: Social Context and the Miniature Frieze [Hardback]
£55.00ISBN: 9781931534970
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 61
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The Knossos Tablets [Hardback]
José L. Melena (Other); Richard J. Firth (Other)
£55.00ISBN: 9781931534963
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
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The sixth edition of The Knossos Tablets brings for now to completion nearly 120 years of the study of the texts of the Linear B inscriptions from the preeminent Cretan palatial site of the late Minoan Bronze Age. Based on his career-long mastery ... .... Learn More -
Ancient Crete [Paperback]
Jan Driessen (Author)
£29.99ISBN: 9780415820431
Published by : Routledge
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Ancient Crete provides an integrated, up-to-date chronological examination of Prehistoric Crete during the extent of the Minoan civilization, incorporating a century of archaeological discoveries made on the island within a single intellectual and... .... Learn More -
The Marble Finds from Kavos and the Archaeology of Ritual [Hardback]
Colin Renfrew (Editor); Olga Philaniotou (Editor); Neil Brodie (Editor); Giorgos Gavalas (Editor); Michael Boyd (Editor)
£63.00ISBN: 9781902937779
Published by : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Series: The sanctuary on Keros and the origins of Aegean ritual practice
Volume: 3
During the 1960s large numbers of Early Cycladic sculptures of marble, often broken, appeared on the illicit market. These were usually of the strikingly simple form of the folded-arm figure of marble long-known from the Early Cycladic cemeteries.... .... Learn More -
Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings [Hardback]
Susanne Ebbinghaus (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780300237030
Published by : Yale University Press
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Vessels shaped as bulls, lions, birds, donkeys, and other animals were routinely used to pour and drink liquids at feasts throughout the ancient world. Bringing together animal-shaped vessels from the Mediterranean, the Near and Far East, and the ... .... Learn More -
The Etruscans: 9th-2nd Centuries BC [Paperback]
Raffaele D'Amato (Author)
£11.99ISBN: 9781472828316
Published by : Osprey
Series: Elite
Volume: 223
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Ancient Rome had deep roots in the 'Villanovan' culture that we call today the Etruscans. Their long-lived civilization can be traced to 900-750 BC in north-west Italy. They were a sea-faring people trading with and competing against Greek and Pho... .... Learn More -
Studies of Homeric Greece [Paperback]
Jan Bouzek (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9788024635613
Published by : Karolinum Press
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Studies of Homeric Greece is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and Upper Eurasia, circa 1300-700 BC, in relation to their Near ... .... Learn More -
The Early Mediterranean World, 1200 - 600 BC [Hardback]
Anne-Marie Wittke (Editor)
£300.00ISBN: 9789004339323
Published by : Brill
Series: Brill's New Pauly - Supplements
Volume: 9
Ranging in time from the end of the Bronze Age to the dawn of the so-called historical period (12th-6th centuries BC), this compendium presents the first complete survey of the early history of all the cultures along the coasts of the Mediterranea... .... Learn More -
An Etruscan Affair: The Impact of Early Etruscan Discoveries on European Culture [Paperback]
Judith Swaddling (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592111
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 211
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This volume considers how the discovery of Etruscan sites and artefacts has inspired artists, architects, statesmen, collectors, scholars and travellers to Italy from the 16th through to the 20th century, from Ferdinando de' Medici to Piranesi and... .... Learn More
