The Oxford handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean : ca. 3000-1000 BC / edited by Eric H. Cline.

"The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution of early Greek religiou...

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Other Authors: Cline, Eric H.
Other title:Bronze Age Aegean.
Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I: Background and Definitions. History of Research / James D. Muhly ; Chronology and Terminology / Sturt W. Manning.
  • Section II: Chronology and Geography. Neolithic Antecedents / Peter Tomkins Early Bronze Age ; Mainland Greece / Jeannette Forsén ; Crete / Peter Tomkins and Ilse Schoep ; Cyclades / Colin Renfrew Middle Bronze Age ; Mainland Greece / Sofia Voutsaki ; Crete / Ilse Schoep ; Cyclades / Robin L. N. Barber ; Late Bronze Age ; Mainland Greece / Kim Shelton ; Crete / Erik Hallager ; Cyclades / Robin L. N. Barber ; End of the Bronze Age / Reinhard Jung.
  • Section III: Thematic Topics - Art and Architecture. Minoan Architecture / Louise Hitchcock ; Mycenaean Architecture / Louise Hitchcock ; Figurines / Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst ; Frescoes / Anne P. Chapin ; Society and Culture ; State and Society / Dimitri Nakassis, Michael L. Galaty, and William A. Parkinson ; Minoan Religion / Susan Lupack ; Mycenaean Religion / Susan Lupack ; Death and Burial / Christopher Mee ; Trade / Bryan E. Burns ; Weapons and Warfare / Ioannis Georganas ; Seals and Writing/Administrative Systems ; Minoan Seals and Sealings / Judith Weingarten ; Mycenaean Seals and Sealings / John G. Younger ; Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A / Helena Tomas ; Linear B / Thomas G. Palaima ; Cypro-Minoan / Nicolle Hirschfeld Material Crafts ; Materials and Industries / Doniert G. Evely ; Minoan Pottery / Birgitta Hallager Mycenaean Pottery / Jeremy B. Rutter ; Textiles / Brendan Burke ; Jewellery / Robert Laffineur Events ; Eruption of Thera/Santorini / Sturt W. Manning ; Trojan War / Trevor Bryce ; The Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age / Oliver Dickinson.
  • Section IV: Specific Sites and Regions - Crete. Ayia Triada Vincenzo La Rosa ; Kato Zakros Lefteris Platon ; Khania (Kydonia) / Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki ; Knossos / Colin Macdonald ; Kommos / Joseph and Maria Shaw ; Malia, Jan Driessen ; Palaikastro / J. Alexander MacGillivray and L. Hugh Sackett ; Phaistos / Vincenzo La Rosa Mainland Greece ; Argolid / Sofia Voutsaki ; Boeotia / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild ; Central and Southern Peloponnese / William G. Cavanagh ; Northern Aegean / Stelios Andreou ; Lerna / Martha Wiencke ; Mycenae / Elizabeth French ; Pylos / Jack L. Davis ; Thebes / Anastasia Dakouri-Hild ; Thorikos / Robert Laffineur ; Tiryns / Joseph Maran ; Cyclades, Dodecanese, and Saronic Islands ; Aegina Kolonna / Walter Gauss ; Akrotiri / Christos Doumas ; Dodecanese / Toula Marketou ; Rhodes / Toula Marketou ; Wider Mediterranean ; Cape Gelidonya shipwreck / George F. Bass ; Cyprus / Louise Steel ; Egypt / Jacke Phillips ; Levant / Assaf Yasur-Landau ; Troy / Peter Jablonka ; Uluburun shipwreck / Cemal Pulak ; Western Anatolia / Alan M. Greaves ; Western Mediterranean / Lucia Vagnetti.