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Informationen zum Autor A. Bernard Knapp is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Research Fellow at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia. He has held research appointments at the University of Sydney, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, the University of Cambridge, and Macquarie University (Sydney). His research interests include archaeological theory (such as insularity and island archaeology, social identity, gender, hybridization practices), archaeological landscapes and regional archaeologies, and Bronze Age Mediterranean prehistory generally. He is co-editor of the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and editor of the series Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. His most recent book is The Archaeology of Cyprus: From Earliest Prehistory through the Bronze Age (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Peter van Dommelen is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University. Between 1997 and 2012, he taught Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of the University of Glasgow. He was visiting professor in the Department of History of the University of the Balearics (Palma de Mallorca) in 2012, in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Cagliari (Italy) in 2011, and in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2005–6. His research interests include colonialism, rural households, and landscapes in the (west) Mediterranean, in both ancient and more recent times. In practical terms, he has long been engaged in field survey and ceramic studies in Sardinia, Italy. Founding co-editor of the journal Archaeological Dialogues until 2006, he currently co-edits the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and sits on the editorial board of World Archaeology. He is co-author of Rural Landscapes of the Punic World (2008). Klappentext The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean explores contemporary archaeology of the Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean explores contemporary archaeology of the Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Iron Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A little history of Mediterranean island prehistory; 2. Inside out? Materiality and connectivity in the Aegean archipelago; 3. Early island exploitations: productive and subsistence strategies on the prehistoric Balearic Islands; 4. Islands and mobility: exploring Bronze Age connectivity in the South-Central Mediterranean; 5. Sicily in Mediterranean history in the second millennium BC; 6. Late Bronze Age Sardinia: acephalous cohesion; 7. Corridors and colonies: comparing fourth-third millennia BC interactions in Southeast Anatolia and the Levant; 8. The Anatolian context of philia material culture in Cyprus; 9. Bronze Age European elites: from the Aegean to the Adriatic, and back again; 10. Greece in the Early Iron Age: mobility, commodities, polities, and literacy; 11. Before 'the gates of Tartessos': indigenous knowledge and exchange networks in the Late Bronze Age far west; 12. Colonizations and cultural developments in the central Mediterranean; 13. The Iron Age in South Italy: settlement, mobility, and culture contact; 14. Migration, hybridization, and resistance: identity dynamics in the Early Iron Age Southern Levant; 15. Cultural interactions in Iron Age Sardinia; 16. Myth into art: foreign impulses and local responses in archaic Cypriot sanctuaries; 17. Mobility, interaction, and power in the Iron Age Western Mediterranean; 18. Sensuous memory, materiality, and history: rethinking the 'rise of the palaces' on Bronze Age Crete; 19. Beyond iconography: meaning-making in Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean visual and material cultur...
