Political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age : papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007 / edited by Daniel J. Pullen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Pullen, Daniel J., 1954-

Conference Name:

Langford Conference of the Department of Classics (2007 : Florida State University)

Langford Conference of the Department of Classics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze age--Aegean Sea Region--Congresses.

Minoans--Congresses.

Civilization, Mycenaean--Congresses.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)--Economic conditions--Congresses.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)--Politics and government--Congresses.

Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Crete (Greece)--Economic conditions--Congresses.

Crete (Greece)--Politics and government--Congresses.

Crete (Greece)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford Books ; Oakville, Conn. : Distributed by David Brown, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume brings together an international group of researchers to address how Mycenaean and Minoan states controlled the economy. The contributions, originally delivered at the 2007 Langford Conference at Florida State University, examine the political economies of state (and pre-state) entities within the Aegean Bronze Age, including the issues of: centralization and multiple scales of production, distribution, and consumption within a polity; importance of extraregional trade; craft specialization; the role of non-elite institutions, and the political economy before the emergence of the palaces. The contributors address these issues from an explicitly comparative perspective, both within and across Minoan and Mycenaean contexts. The conclusions reached in this volume shed new light on the essential differences between and among "Minoan" and "Mycenaean" states through their political economies"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age / Daniel J. Pullen

Beyond the peer: social interaction and political evolution in the Bronze age Aegean / William A. Parkinson

Spirit of place: Minoan houses as major actors / Jan Driessen

Making elites: political economy and elite culture(s) in middle Minoan Crete / Ilse Schoep

From the kinship economy to the palatial economy: the Argolid in the second millennium BC / Sofia Voutsaki

Political economies in ritual: a comparative study of the rise of the state in pre- and protopalatial Knossos and Phaistos / Joanne M.A. Murphy

Reevaluating staple and wealth finance at Mycenaean Pylos / Dimitri Nakassis

Seafaring in the Bronze Age Aegean: evidence and speculation / Cheryl A. Ward

Between and beyond: political economy in non-palatial Mycenaean worlds / Thomas F. Tartaron

Citadel and settlement: a developing economy at Mycenae, the case of Petsas House / Kim Shelton

Living from pots? Ceramic perspectives on the economies of prepalatial Crete / Peter M. Day, Maria Relaki, and Simona Todaro

Wedging clay: combining competing models of Mycenaean pottery industries / Michael L. Galaty

Political economies in the Aegean Bronze Age: a response / James C. Wright.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842177945

184217794X

9781299485167

1299485162

OCLC:

841909195