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The book examines the movement of people, artefacts and technologies across the Mediterranean - a key arena for studying ancient mobilities.
List of contents
1. Technological mobilities: perspectives from the eastern Mediterranean - an introduction C. Knappett and E. Kiriatzi; 2. The transmitting sea: a Mediterranean perspective C. Broodbank; 3. Changing pottery technology in the later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece D. Urem-Kotsou; 4. Mobility and Early Bronze Age Aegean metal production M. Georgakopoulou; 5. Stonemasons and craft mobility in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean A. Bevan and E. Bloxam; 6. Towards an understanding of the origin of Late Bronze Age Greek glass A. J. Shortland; 7. Mobilities in the Neopalatial southern Aegean: the case of Minoanisation I. Nikolakopoulou and C. Knappett; 8. The archaeological signatures of mobility: a technological look at 'Aegeanising' pottery from the northern Levant at the end of the second millennium BCE M.-C. Boileau; 9. Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising pottery across the Mediterranean: a multi-scalar approach to technological mobility, transmission and appropriation E. Kiriatzi and S. Andreou; 10. Interpreting Bronze Age trade and migration K. Kristiansen; 11. Commentary. States and technological mobility: a view from the West E. Blake; 12. Commentary. On fluxes, connections, and their archaeological manifestations O. P. Gosselain.
About the author
Evangelia Kiriatzi is Director of the Fitch Laboratory for science-based archaeology at the British School at Athens and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She has published Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina: An Integrated Archaeological and Scientific Study of a Ceramic Landscape (with Walter Gauss, 2011). She carries out studies and fieldwork at numerous prehistoric sites across the Aegean, southern Balkans and Anatolia, and co-directs the Kythera Island Project (with Cyprian Broodbank), investigating the long-term cultural and environmental history of a Mediterranean island.Carl Knappett teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory. His previous books include Thinking Through Material Culture (2005), An Archaeology of Interaction (2014), and Network Analysis in Archaeology (2013). He conducts fieldwork at various Bronze Age sites across the Aegean, and directs the new excavations at the Minoan town of Palaikastro in east Crete.
Summary
This book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory. It will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to historians and anthropologists, as this region has been such a crucial theatre for exploring questions of mobility in archaeology generally.
