The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age : continuity and change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC / Oliver Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, O. T. P. K. (Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aegean Sea Region--Civilization.

Aegean Sea Region.

Physical Description:

xvi, 298 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Following Oliver Dickinson's successful The Aegean Bronze Age, The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age is an up-to-date synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, and the great advances towards Greek civilisation in the eighth century BC.

Breaking away from outmoded theories which give undue credit to Athens for Greek development and place undue stress on migration, Dickinson offers a fresh examination of the latest material and archaeological evidence and forms the compelling argument that many characteristics of Ancient Greece developed in the so-called 'Dark Ages'.

In accessible thematic chapters, this highly informative text considers the structure and economy of the early Iron Age communities, their crafts, burial customs, external contact, trade and religion, with a separate chapter on the Postpalatial period, and comments on 'The Homeric Question,' revealing: the reasons for the Bronze Age collapse, bringing about the 'Dark Ages', the processes that enabled Greece to emerge from the 'Dark Ages', the degree of continuity from the 'Dark Ages' to later times.

Including chapter bibliographies, distribution maps and new illustrations, this book will prove to be essential reading for students and specialists alike as well as an illuminating read for the interested general reader. This is an authoritative survey of the period from a leader in the field.

Contents:

Terminology and chronology

The collapse of the Bronze Age civilisation

The Postpalatial period

The structure and economy of communities

Crafts

Burial customs

Trade, exchange and foreign contacts

Religion

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index.

ISBN:

0415135893

9780415135894

0415135907

9780415135900

0203968360

9780203968369

OCLC:

67945411

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