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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean provides a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC) and describes the most important debates and discussions within the discipline. Presented in four separate sections within the Handbook, the sixty-six commissioned articles cover topics ranging from chronological and geographical to thematic to site-specific. The volume will be indispensable for scholars andadvanced students alike.
Trade ReviewThe Handbook is certainly an impressive achievement ... handbooks like this will continue to be indispensible tools for the Bronze Age Aegean archaeologist. * Curtis Runnels, International Journal of Classical Tradition *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Contributors ; Abbreviations ; Preface, Eric H. Cline ; Section I: Background and Definitions ; 1. History of Research, James D. Muhly ; 2. Chronology and Terminology, Sturt W. Manning ; Section II: Chronology and Geography ; 3. Neolithic Antecedents, Peter Tomkins ; Early Bronze Age ; 4. Mainland Greece, Jeannette Forsen ; 5. Crete, Peter Tomkins and Ilse Schoep ; 6. Cyclades, Colin Renfrew ; Middle Bronze Age ; 7. Mainland Greece, Sofia Voutsaki ; 8. Crete, Ilse Schoep ; 9. Cyclades, Robin L. N. Barber ; Late Bronze Age ; 10. Mainland Greece, Kim Shelton ; 11. Crete, Erik Hallager ; 12. Cyclades, Robin L. N. Barber ; 13. End of the Bronze Age, Reinhard Jung ; Section III: Thematic Topics - Art and Architecture ; 14. Minoan Architecture, Louise Hitchcock ; 15. Mycenaean Architecture, Louise Hitchcock ; 16. Figurines, Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst ; 17. Frescoes, Anne P. Chapin ; Society and Culture ; 18. State and Society, Dimitri Nakassis, Michael L. Galaty, and William A. Parkinson ; 19. Minoan Religion, Susan Lupack ; 20. Mycenaean Religion, Susan Lupack ; 21. Death and Burial, Christopher Mee ; 22. Trade, Bryan E. Burns ; 23. Weapons and Warfare, Ioannis Georganas ; Seals and Writing/Administrative Systems ; 24. Minoan Seals and Sealings, Judith Weingarten ; 25. Mycenaean Seals and Sealings, John G. Younger ; 26. Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A, Helena Tomas ; 27. Linear B, Thomas G. Palaima ; 28. Cypro-Minoan, Nicolle Hirschfeld ; Material Crafts ; 29. Materials and Industries, Doniert G. Evely ; 30. Minoan Pottery, Birgitta Hallager ; 31. Mycenaean Pottery, Jeremy B. Rutter ; 32. Textiles, Brendan Burke ; 33. Jewellery, Robert Laffineur ; Events ; 34. Eruption of Thera/Santorini, Sturt W. Manning ; 35. Trojan War, Trevor Bryce ; 36. The Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age, Oliver Dickinson ; Section IV: Specific Sites and Regions - Crete ; 37. Ayia Triada Vincenzo La Rosa ; 38. Kato Zakros Lefteris Platon ; 39. Khania (Kydonia), Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki ; 40. Knossos, Colin Macdonald ; 41. Kommos, Joseph and Maria Shaw ; 42. Malia, Jan Driessen ; 43. Palaikastro, J. Alexander MacGillivray and L. Hugh Sackett ; 44. Phaistos, Vincenzo La Rosa ; Mainland Greece ; 45. Argolid, Sofia Voutsaki ; 46. Boeotia, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild ; 47. Central and Southern Peloponnese, William G. Cavanagh ; 48. Northern Aegean, Stelios Andreou ; 49. Lerna, Martha Wiencke ; 50. Mycenae, Elizabeth French ; 51. Pylos, Jack L. Davis ; 52. Thebes, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild ; 53. Thorikos, Robert Laffineur ; 54. Tiryns, Joseph Maran ; Cyclades, Dodecanese, and Saronic Islands ; 55. Aegina Kolonna, Walter Gauss ; 56. Akrotiri, Christos Doumas ; 57. Dodecanese, Toula Marketou ; 58. Rhodes, Toula Marketou ; Wider Mediterranean ; 59. Cape Gelidonya shipwreck, George F. Bass ; 60. Cyprus, Louise Steel ; 61. Egypt, Jacke Phillips ; 62. Levant, Assaf Yasur-Landau ; 63. Troy, Peter Jablonka ; 64. Uluburun shipwreck, Cemal Pulak ; 65. Western Anatolia, Alan M. Greaves ; 66. Western Mediterranean, Lucia Vagnetti
