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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463153303321

Autore

Tartaron Thomas F.

Titolo

Maritime networks in the Mycenaean world / / Thomas Tartaron [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-139-88813-7

1-107-06483-X

1-107-05645-4

1-107-05433-8

1-139-01737-3

1-107-05755-8

1-107-05878-3

1-107-05534-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

387.50938/09013

Soggetti

Navigation - Greece - History - To 1500

Coastal archaeology - Greece - Methodology

Coast changes - Greece - History

Civilization, Mycenaean

Greece Commerce History, Ancient

Aegean Sea Navigation History To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The problem of Mycenaean coastal worlds -- Mycenaeans and the sea -- Ships and boats of the Aegean Bronze Age -- The maritime environment of the Aegean Sea -- Coasts and harbors of the Bronze Age Aegean: characteristics, discovery, and reconstruction -- Concepts for Mycenaean coastal worlds -- Coastscapes and small worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age: case studies -- Conclusions and prospects.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. These



long-distance relations have been celebrated and much studied; by contrast, the vibrant worlds of local maritime interaction and exploitation of the sea have been virtually ignored. Dr Tartaron argues that local maritime networks, in the form of 'coastscapes' and 'small worlds', are far more representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. He offers a complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological and anthropological approaches with ancient texts and network theory, he demonstrates the application of this scheme in several case studies. This book presents new perspectives and challenges for all archaeologists with interests in maritime connectivity.