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Parallel Lives
Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus
M Iacovou (Author); Gerald Cadogan (Author); James Whitley (Author); Katerina Kopaka (Author)
How do the cultures of Crete and Cyprus, the two great islands of the eastern
Mediterranean, compare in their history and development from the 3rd millennium
to the 1st millennium BC? What was similar and what was different in their social
and political, economic and technological, and religious and mortuary practices and
behaviours, and in the natural settings and choices of places for settlements? Why, and
how, did convergences and divergences come about? These are among the important
questions that a leading group of experts on the two islands addressed at Parallel
Lives, a pioneering conference in Nicosia organised by the British School at Athens, the
University of Crete and the University of Cyprus, to compare and discuss the islands’
cultural trajectories diachronically from c. 3000 BC through their Bronze Ages and
down to their loss of independence in 300 BC for Cyprus and 67 BC for Crete.
9780904887662, £98.00, Available Now
HB, 382p, b/w illus, BSA Studies 20, British School at Athens
Prehistory – World
Cultural landscapes, social networks and historical
trajectories
A data-rich synthesis of Early Bronze Age networks (c. 2200–1700 BC) in
Abruzzo and Lazio (Central Italy)
Erik van Rossenberg (Author)
It’s about time that Central Italy claims its place in Bronze Age studies. This study
wants to fill this gap and make a crossover between landscape and network
approaches in archaeology. It starts from a methodological consideration of
archaeological synthesis in Bronze Age studies. Approaching landscapes as
networks of places, this study advocates a data-rich form of synthesis of Bronze
Age trajectories, one that avoids a selective focus on particular places. This datarich
synthesis of the Early Bronze Age in Central Italy takes all types of place
making up cultural landscapes and social networks into account, in this case
metalwork deposition, burial, cave use and settlement patterns.
9789088900990, £55.00, January 2013
PB, 350p, Sidestone Press
Well Built Mycenae Fascicule 34.1
Technical Reports. The Results of Neutron Activation Analysis
of Mycenaean Pottery
E B French (Author); J.E. Tomlinson (Author)
Since 1890 when Sir Flinders Petrie first realised the importance of the Aegean
pottery he had found in Egypt further discoveries of these wares have been noted
with more than superficial interest. Early studies, however, right up to the mid
20th century, had to be based on stylistic, and thus often subjective, criteria. It
is only more recently with the development of a range of scientific techniques
that it has become possible to make serious attempts to ascertain the exact
sources of this imported pottery. This fascicule of the Well Built Mycenae series
presents for the first time the raw data as well as the statistical analyses based
on it and assesses the impact of the various methods on the archaeological
value of the research. Includes a DVD with accompanying material for 34.1 and
all previous fascicules.
9781842175286, £25.00, Available Now
PB, 62p, Oxbow Books
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