The seascape in Aegean prehistory
2011, First Edition. Athens : Danish Institute at Athens. Near fine copy in the colour-printed boards, showing faint shelfwear only. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #476702
Series; Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; v. 14. Physical description; 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Preface / Giorgos Vavouranakis – Introduction / Giorgos Vavouranakis – The paradox of early voyaging in the Mediterranean and the slowness of the Neolithic transition between Cyprus and Italy / Albert J. Ammerman – Fishing (in) Aegean seascapes: early Aegean fishermen and their world / Tatiana Theodoropoulou – Further thoughts on the International Spirit: maritime politics and consuming bodies in the early Cyclades / Despina Catapoti – Funerary customs and maritime activity in Early Bronze Crete / Giorgos Vavouranakis – Towards a conceptualisation of the sea: artefacts, iconography and meaning / Ina Berg – Fish and ships: Neopalatial seascapes in context / Matthew Haysom – A view from the sea / John G. Younger – Politics of the sea in the Late Bronze Age II-III Aegean: iconographic preferences and textual perspectives / Vassilis P. Petrakis – Important Aegeans in Cyprus: a study on Aegean imports in Late Bronze Age non-mortuary contexts in Cyprus / Sophia Antoniadou – Overseas migrations at the end of the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean: some reflections / Anastasia Leriou – An epilogue: histories from the sea / Kostas Kotsakis – Index. Subjects; Art, Aegean – 20th century. Sea in art. Bronze age – Aegean Sea Region. Aegean Sea Region – Antiquities. Greece – Antiquities. Cyprus – Antiquities. Maritime history.
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