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The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things and Networks around the Southern Adriatic Sea

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Full Title:

The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things and Networks around the Southern Adriatic Sea

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781350036147

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date:

27th December 2018

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

Social and cultural anthropology
Ancient history

Dewey:

930.1/56

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

304

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Weight:

603g

Description

Interaction and mobility have attracted much interest in research within scholarly fields as different as archaeology, history, and more broadly the humanities. Critically assessing some of the most widespread views on interaction and its social impact, this book proposes an innovative perspective which combines radical social theory and currently burgeoning network methodologies. Through an in-depth analysis of a wealth of data often difficult to access, and illustrated by many diagrams and maps, the book highlights connections and their social implications at different scales ranging from the individual settlement to the Mediterranean. The resulting diachronic narrative explores social and economic trajectories over some seven centuries and sheds new light on the broad historical trends affecting the life of people living around the Middle Sea. The Bronze Age is the first period of intense interaction between early state societies of the Eastern Mediterranean and the small-scale communities to the west of Greece, with people and goods moving at a scale previously unprecedented. This encounter is explored from the vantage point of one of its main foci: Apulia, located in the southern Adriatic, at the junction between East and West and the entryway of one of the major routes for the resource-rich European continent.

Reviews

Iaconos informative book offers a fresh picture of the Apulian region over 700 years of the Bronze Age the book serves as a valuable account of the key sites and, as inferred, the society of the region. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *

Author Bio

Francesco Iacono is a Marie Slodowska-Curie fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK.

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