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Book SynopsisThree millennia of cross-Mediterranean bonds are revealed by the 18 expert summaries in this book—from the dawn of the Bronze Age to the budding of Hellenization. An international team of acclaimed specialists in their fields—archaeologists, historians, geomorphologists, and metallurgists—shed light on a plethora of aspects associated with travelling this age-old sea and its periphery: environmental factors; the formation of harbors; gateways; commodities; the crucial role of metals; cultural impact; and the way to interpret the agents such as Canaanites, "Sea Peoples," Phoenicians, and pirates. The book will engage any student of the Old World in the 3000 years before the Common Era.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Professor Michal Artzy: A Scholarly Life by the Mediterranean Assaf Yasur-Landau and Ayelet Gilboa Professor Michal Artzy, Curriculum Vitae 1 Tyre before Tyre: The Early Bronze Age Foundation María Eugenia Aubet 2 Two Imported Pottery Vessels from the Middle Euphrates to the Southern Levant and Their Contribution to the Chronology of the End of Early Bronze I and the Beginning of Early Bronze II Vladimir Wolff Avrutis and Eli Yannai 3 Burials of Domesticated Animals in the Middle Bronze Age Rampart at Tel ‘Akko in Light of Archaeological Finds in the Levant and Ceremonies from the Ancient Near East Ron Beeri, Hadas Motro, Noa Gerstel-Raban, and Michal Artzy 4 “For the Wealth of the Sea Will Pass on to You”: Changes in Patterns of Trade from Southern Phoenicia to Northern Judah in the Late Iron Age and Persian Periods Aaron Brody 5 Cypriot Pottery from the Second Millennium BCE at Tell Keisan in the Lower Galilee (Israel) Mariusz Burdajewicz 6Contextualization and Typology of Ancient Island Harbors in the Mediterranean: From Natural Hazards to Anthropogenic Imprints Matthieu Giaime, Christophe Morhange, and Nick Marriner 7 The Plain of Akko Regional Survey (PARS): An Integrated Use of GIS, Photogrammetry, and LiDAR to Reconstruct Akko’s Hinterland Ann E. Killebrew, Jane C. Skinner, Jamie Quartermaine, and Ragna Stidsing 8 Piracy in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean? A Cautionary Tale A. Bernard Knapp 9 Oxhides, Buns, Bits, and Pieces: Analyzing the Ingot Cargo of the Cape Gelidonya Shipwreck Joseph W.Lehner, Emre Kuruçayırlı, and Nicolle Hirschfeld 10 The Presence of the Past: Ruin Mounds and Social Memory in Bronze and Early Iron Age Israel and Greece Joseph Maran 11 In the Footsteps of the Phoenicians in Paphos Jolanta Młynarczyk 12 Informed or at Sea: On the Maritime and Mundane in Ugaritic Tablet RS 94.2406 Chris Monroe 13 A Fragmentary Small Copper Oxhide Ingot from Tell Beit Mirsim at the James L. Kelso Bible Lands Museum, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary Cemal Pulak 14 Lévi-Strauss and the Royal Ancestor Cult in the Bronze Age Levant Marísa Ruiz-Gálvez 15 Phoenicians and Corinth Susan Sherratt 16 The Aegean-Type Pottery from Tel Nami Philipp W. Stockhammer 17 The Rag-and-Bone Trade at Enkomi: Late Cypriot Scrap Metal and the Bronze Industry Stuart Swiny 18 Sea Peoples from the Aegean: Identity, Sociopolitical Context, and Antecedents Aleydis Van de Moortel Archaeological Periods Index
